HMM: ‘Game of Thrones’ creators back out of planned new ‘Star Wars’ movie trilogy.

“We love ‘Star Wars,’ ” Benioff and Weiss said in a statement. “When George Lucas built it, he built us, too. Getting to talk about ‘Star Wars’ with him and the current ‘Star Wars’ team was the thrill of a lifetime, and we will always be indebted to the saga that changed everything. But there are only so many hours in the day, and we felt we could not do justice to both ‘Star Wars’ and our Netflix projects. So we are regretfully stepping away.”

I doubt this would be happening if “The Last Jedi” hadn’t been a complete failure, if “Solo” had been such a dud, and if the buzz on December’s “Rise of Skywalker” weren’t so awful.

Disney, as Bill Whittle pointed out, has done the impossible: They killed the Star Wars movie franchise.