GAME OF THRONES Creators’ Rejected STAR WARS Movie Was About “The First Jedi”

Several years ago, right before HBO game of Thrones the series has come to an end, showrunner of the series David Benioff AND DB Weiss were hired by Lucasfilm to develop a series of Star Wars movie. It was rumored at the time that those films would be set in the Old Republic era.

It was said at the time that the story would be set “hundreds of years before the Skywalkers, so you almost think Star Wars meet Lord of the Rings.”

Now, Benioff and Weiss have actually shared some details about theirs Star Wars project, which was ultimately scrapped, and would have revolved around the story of the first Jedi. During an interview with THR, Benioff said:

“We wanted to do The First Jedi. Basically how the Jedi Order was born, why it was born, the first lightsaber…”

Weiss added:

“And we were damn annoyed when [Rian Johnson, the duo’s longtime friend and 3BP producer] he titled his film The Last Jedi. He completely destroyed the obvious title of what we were working on.”

When asked what went wrong and why the project fell apart, he added:

“[Lucasfilm] he ended up not wanting to do a story about the First Jedi. We had a very specific story idea in mind and in the end they decided not to do it. And we understand it perfectly. It’s their company and their intellectual property, but we weren’t the droids they were looking for.”

The first Jedi was the First Jedi, who became the first Jedi to use the Force. The First Jedi was also the founder of the Jedi Order. The First Jedi founded the Order on the planet Ahch-To, around 25,025 BBY. The first Jedi Temple, located on Ahch-To, contained a mosaic of the First Jedi in a state of meditation and balance.

There’s an interesting story to be told with the early Jedi, and it’s one that could be explored in director James Mangold’s film, Dawn of the Jedi. That story is said to take place 25,000 years before the events of the original trilogy and will focus on the birth of the Force.

Speaking previously about his project, Mangold described it as a Ben Hur OR The 10 commandments Force movies:

“It’s an opportunity to tell the whole story, the birth of strength. When I first talked about this with Kathy Kennedy, I simply said, “I really see this opening to create a kind of Ben-Hur or The 10 Commandments about the birth of the Strength.” The Force has become a sort of religious legend that runs through all of these films. But where did it come from? How do you find? Who found it? Who was the first Jedi? And that’s what I’m writing right now.”

In another interview, talking about how the film would focus on the discovery of the Force, the director said:

“It just came from the fact that I thought if I did one, it seemed to me that most of what they were thinking about doing with the films was about the present of Star Wars or the future, and what attracted me most was the distant past and how this galaxy was formed and how, more specifically, the Force was discovered.”

What we know about the ancient history of the Force is that in “36,453 BBY, philosophers and scientists from different star systems gathered on Tython to share mystical knowledge. The Force has been “discovered”. Unfortunately, in 25,793 BBY, several Tythan scholars began using their knowledge of the Force to pursue power, leading to the start of the Force Wars. The peaceful-minded monks who survived the destruction of Tython founded the Jedi Order in 25,783 BBY.