David Benioff and D.B. Weiss left fans of both the Game of Thrones and Star Wars franchises disappointed when they announced last week that they’d exited a forthcoming Star Wars project. The pair cited their deal to create new shows for Netflix but, Vanity Fair reports, there might have been more to the decision — and despite announcing their departure from the project in late October, they’d been planning to leave the Star Wars franchise since mid-August.
“Benioff and Weiss’s Star Wars exit had been in the works since August.” Vanity Fair reports, based on a story about the project’s downfall in The Hollywood Reporter. “THR affirms that the reason the two wound up walking away partially had to do with their Netflix deal — but another factor that prompted the decision, the trade adds, was ‘toxic fandom.'”
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