Yesterday - somewhat completely out of the blue - StarWars.com announced that Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been hired to write and produce a new series of Star Wars films.
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Details are predictably thin on the ground at this stage, but the announcement confirmed that these films would be separate from both the episodic Skywalker saga and the recently-announced trilogy being developed by Rian Johnson.
Honestly, I find this news a little exhausting. The wording of this announcement suggests that Benioff and Weiss will be responsible for the production of at least two Star Wars feature films. This means that Disney now have at least seven new Star Wars films in the works (including Episode IX, the as-yet untitled third "Star Wars Story" film, and Rian Johnson's recently announced trilogy). Don't get me wrong, more Star Wars is always a good thing - I just wish we had a little more breathing room to appreciate each installment in the saga (I'm already looking forward to the eighteen month lacuna between Solo and Episode IX). I also worry that such an excess of releases may water-down the pomp and ceremony that always made Star Wars film releases such huge events.
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