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The Reason Game Of Thrones Creators Are No Longer Making Star Wars Movies · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. There's obviously quite a
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Speaker 1: lot of crossover between Game of Thrones and Star Wars.
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Speaker 1: Fans both featured incredible characters and stories and is that
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Speaker 1: a fantastical and fully realized universe. So when the news
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Speaker 1: came down last year that Thrones creator David Benning Off
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Speaker 1: and dB wise we're creating their own Star Wars trilogy,
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Speaker 1: fan people went nuts. Unfortunately, it's just been announced these
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Speaker 1: films will never see the light of day because the
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Speaker 1: record setting deal the pair recently assigned with Netflix will
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Speaker 1: keep them too busy. In a statement to Deadline, they say,
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Speaker 1: when George Lucas built Star Wars, he built us too.
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Speaker 1: Getting to talk about Star Wars with him was the
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Speaker 1: thrill of a lifetime, and we will always be indebted
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Speaker 1: to the saga that changed everything. There only so many
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Speaker 1: hours in the day, and we felt we could not
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Speaker 1: do justice to both Star Wars and our Netflix projects,
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Speaker 1: so we regretfully are stepping away. Thankfully, Star Wars fans
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Speaker 1: will have other contents to look forward to. The new series,
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Speaker 1: The Mandalorian, will debut on Disney Plus November twelve. That's
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Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood,