THRONES PRODUCERS TO TAKE ON STAR WARS FILMS

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, executive producers of Game of Thrones, will write and produce a series of new Star Wars movies, Walt Disney Co. said. Disney said the Benioff and Weiss films would be separate from the Luke Skywalker movies and the trilogy Rian Johnson, the writer and director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, is working on. Disney gets two extremely in-demand producers who have proved they can satisfy Thrones book loyalists along with drawing in millions of general viewers that made Game of Thrones the most popular show in HBO’s history. And for Benioff and Weiss, pictured, 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.