With a much-anticipated sci-fi project coming soonNetflixs 3 Body Problem seriescreative partners David Benioff and D.B.

Weiss are reflecting back on a different, equally anticipated sci-fi projectthey never ended up making.

Speaking tothe Hollywood Reporter, Benioff said, We wanted to do The First Jedi.

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Adam Driver as Kylo Ren in Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last JediImage: Lucasfilm

Basically how the Jedi Order came to be, why it came to be, the first lightsaber.

He completely destroyed the obvious title for what we were working on.

The Star Wars period the pair was interested in exploring was how the Jedi came to exist.

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And we totally get it.

Its their company and their IP, but we werent the droids they were looking for.

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