They faithfully adapted and paved new ground for the Game of Thrones universe. Why not give it a whirl with Star Wars? Weiss, executive producers of Game of Thrones, will write and produce a series of new Star Wars movies, the Walt Disney Co. said on Tuesday. And for Benioff and Weiss, the Star Wars assignment could prove to be more welcoming than their planned HBO project announced last summer. The news that the two star producers would work on Confederate, a fictionalized drama that imagines the South won the Civil War and slavery remains intact in today’s America, was met with an immediate backlash.

Source: thestar February 06, 2018 23:15 UTC