re: Just Finished Binging All 8 Seasons of Game of Thrones

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I thought they backed out of the Star Wars project themselves because after dealing with GOT backlash from devoted fans they didn't want to step into an even bigger fan devoted series (and risk even greater backlash).

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So the Star Wars deal was announced early 2018, over a year before the ending to GoT. The season was terrible with tons of backlash obviously and those two don't even really talk to the media and canceled their con events. A couple months later they finally spoke at a film festival and said they have no idea why Martin entrusted them with his lifes work and during scenes or writing they were close to doing Monty Python and the Holy Grail. So all they did is make themselves look much worse.

TWO DAYS after that, they are done with Star Wars. I'm sorry, that wasn't them walking away, they got told yea this isn't going to work.