For en del år siden søsatte Lucasfilm en række forskellige Star Wars-projekter, deriblandt to distinkte, separate filmtrilogier fra henholdsvis Game of Thrones-skaberne David Benioff og D.B. Weiss og så Rian Johnson.
Hverken af disse er blevet til noget, men i forhold til førstnævnte, så var de to faktisk ret langt med udviklingen af i hvert fald den første film. I et interview med ComicBook siger de dette:
"I think we got relatively far, storywise, with the first one,. We had a basic roadmap to the other two, and it was a shame. The truth is our Hollywood ratio, or batting average, of things conceived to things actually finished, has never been tremendously high, and there's always going to be ones that get away for various reasons. The ones that were never meant to be. And it was sad that was one of them for us. But as time goes on, you just kind of need to let go of those kinds of things because if you don't, you'll drive yourself completely crazy."
De har tidligere afsløret, at den midlertidige titel for den første film hed "The First Jedi", som ville have fortalt historien om Jedi-ordnens oprindelse, og hvordan det første lyssværd blev skabt.
"[Lucasfilm] ended up not wanting to do a First Jedi story. We had a very specific story idea in mind, and ultimately they decided they didn't want to do that. And we totally get it. It's their company and their IP, but we weren't the droids they were looking for," siger de.