Vuosia sitten Lucasfilm ilmoitti, että työn alla on peräti kaksi erillistä Star Wars -trilogiaa. Toisesta vastasi Rian Johnson, ja toisesta Game of Thronesin luojat David Benioff ja D.B. Weiss. Kumpikin trilogia kuopattiin iloisesti.
Comic Bookin saaman tiedon mukaan Game of Thronesin tekijöiden trilogia oli kehityksessään jo melko pitkällä. Tai siis pitkällä ainakin sen trilogian ensimmäisen elokuvan kanssa.
"I think we got relatively far, storywise, with the first one,. We had a basic roadmap to the other two, and it was a shame. The truth is our Hollywood ratio, or batting average, of things conceived to things actually finished, has never been tremendously high, and there's always going to be ones that get away for various reasons. The ones that were never meant to be. And it was sad that was one of them for us. But as time goes on, you just kind of need to let go of those kinds of things because if you don't, you'll drive yourself completely crazy."
Ensimmäisen elokuvan nimenä oli "The First Jedi", jossa olisi laitettu pystyyn se Jedi Order, ja rakennettu ensimmäinen valosapeli.
"[Lucasfilm] ended up not wanting to do a First Jedi story. 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."