Daniel Brett Weiss is an American novelist, writer, and TV producer. He and David Benioff together created and managed the widely praised HBO TV show Game of Thrones, which was based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series. It was revealed on February 6, 2018, that Weiss and Benioff would be writing and producing a fresh Star Wars film series, distinct from both the Skywalker storyline and Rian Johnson's Star Wars trilogy. Nevertheless, on October 28, 2019, Weiss and Benioff left the project because of scheduling problems with Netflix.
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