Game of Thrones creators drop out of the next Star Wars trilogy because of their new Netflix megadeal

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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss say their Netflix megadeal signed in August will keep them too busy to devote enough time to the next Star Wars trilogy, the first movie of which is scheduled to be released in 2022. "There are only so many hours in the day, and we felt we could not do justice to both Star Wars and our Netflix projects,” they said in a statement to Deadline. “So we are regretfully stepping away.” But as Deadline's Geoff Boucher notes, Benioff and Weiss' exit isn't seen as that big of a loss in wake of their disappointing final Game of Thrones season. "Clearly, it’s a big-fizzle ending for the firecracker-fuse headline from February 2018 when the deal was announced," says Boucher. "But the duo’s deal arguably lost some luster during the much-maligned final season of Game of Thrones earlier this year as many fans questioned whether the GOT creators had the storytelling chops to handle a Jedi saga."