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Tongues wagged across Hollywood this week when the "Game of Thrones" creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss stepped away from a planned "Star Wars" trilogy just a year and a half after they'd been hired, instead choosing to devote themselves to a new multiyear megadeal with Netflix. Of course, people couldn't help but jump to conclusions: Maybe Benioff and Weiss didn't want to be the latest casualties of a Lucasfilm regime that has deposed directors more often than not — or maybe executives at Lucasfilm had gotten cold feet, since the final season of "Game of Thrones" made fans awfully salty. |
But the likelier reason is that Benioff and Weiss wanted to take advantage of the current megadeal boom, where studios and streamers are looking for major talents they can lock down in an increasingly crowded and uncertain marketplace. Creators like Ryan Murphy, Shonda Rhimes and J.J. Abrams have all made eye-popping megadeals in recent years, and though Benioff and Weiss had secured provisions from Netflix that would allow them to work on the "Star Wars" movies if they wished, the streamer was clearly leery of the writing duo splitting their focus. Hollywood is playing a high-stakes game of Risk right now, and no one is willing to cede what they're fighting for. |
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