Benioff and Weiss Are Behind 2022 Star Wars Film

A piece of the Star Wars puzzle has just fallen into place. Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger said Tuesday that Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss are working on the new Star Wars film expected in theaters in December 2022, the AP reports. The company had previously announced that The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, separately, and Benioff and Weiss were working on new Star Wars films but it wasn't clear whose would come first. Both, however, are expected to be separate from the Skywalker saga which will wrap up this December with JJ Abrams' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. "We did a deal with David Benioff and DB Weiss, who are famous for Game of Thrones, and the next movie that we release will be theirs," Iger said at the MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit in New York, per io9. "And we’re not saying anything more about that." (More Star Wars stories.)