Game of Thrones Creators’ Star Wars Movie Was About the First Jedi

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss wished their Star Wars film to be The First Jedi.

The now-canceled Star Wars film from Game of Thrones creators Dan Benioff and D.B. Weiss would have informed the story of the First Jedi. Though not deliberate (together with movies by Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins), Weiss and Benioff have not talked overtly about their proposed Star Wars movie till now. Based on their description, The First Jedi would have been an origin story of the Jedi Order, revealing who started the Jedi traditions, constructed the first lightsaber, and the way the order fashioned. It’s a narrative that has been informed earlier than in the outdated Star Wars expanded universe, however by no means on-screen or in the present Star Wars canon.

“We wanted to do The First Jedi,” Benioff revealed to Variety “Basically how the Jedi Order came to be, why it came to be, the first lightsaber…”

“And we were annoyed as hell when [Rian Johnson] called his movie The Last Jedi,” Weiss added (in what is nearly actually a good-natured ribbing as Johnson is mates with the artistic duo and produces their new Netflix sequence, The Three-Body Problem. “He completely destroyed the obvious title for what we were working on.”

It looks as if a stable sufficient concept. Ultimately, although, Benioff says Lucasfilm determined they weren’t thinking about telling that story. “[Lucasfilm] ended up not wanting to do a First Jedi story,” he stated. “We had a very specific story idea in mind, and ultimately they decided they didn’t want to do that. And we totally get it. It’s their company and their IP, but we weren’t the droids they were looking for.”

The key phrase in Benioff’s assertion there could also be “specific.” Lucasfilm could not have wished to inform The First Jedi as Weiss and Benioff imagined it, however they’re thinking about telling the Jedi’s origin story. James Mangold is growing a Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi film that can make clear the Jedi Order’s earliest days.

“It just came from me thinking about if I were doing one, it seemed to me that most of what they were thinking about doing with movies were either in the present of Star Wars or the future,” Mangold informed ComicBook.com at Star Wars Celebration in 2023, “and what attracted me most was the distant past and how this galaxy formed and how, more specifically, the Force was discovered.” Mangold has gone on to say that his movie, which continues to be with no launch date, is impressed by historic epics like Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments.

Who is the First Jedi?

In the present Star Wars canon, the First Jedi is called the Prime Jedi. The Prime Jedi has by no means been depicted first-hand, as an alternative showing in an iconographic illustration in a mosaic seen in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. (Maybe Johnson was making an attempt to tee up his mates?) According to supplemental supplies, the Prime Jedi is the first Jedi to make use of the Force and the founder of the Jedi Order on the planet Ahch-To, the website of the first Jedi Temple.

In the outdated Star Wars expanded universe, now labeled as Star Wars Legends, the Jedi Order had a number of founders: Jedi Masters Cala Brin, Garon Jard, Rajivari, and Ters Sendon. The order fashioned on Tython and first practiced stability in the power, together with acknowledgment of the Dark Side, till Rajivari and others fell to the Dark Side fully, sparking the Force Wars and the seemingly irreconcilable division between gentle aspect customers and Dark Jedi.

What subsequent for the Star Wars films?

While a number of Star Wars movies have been introduced and canceled in the years since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker opened in theaters, Star Wars has discovered new success on streaming with its Disney+ exhibits. Those sequence appear to now kind the cornerstone of Star Wars’ cinematic future, with Lucasfilm asserting The Mandalorian & Grogu movie this week and Dave Filoni engaged on a movie that can presumably construct on what he is seeded in Ahsoka (whereas additionally growing Ahsoka Season 2).

But these aren’t the solely cinematic ambitions for the galaxy far, distant. Mangold’s Dawn of the Jedi will discover historical Star Wars historical past, and the upcoming Star Wars movie starring Daisy Ridley as Rey Skywalker will discover the Star Wars galaxy’s future.