In an unexpected twist, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have parted ways with Disney's Lucas Arts.

The pair walked away from their hotly-anticipated partnership with the media giant, a year and a half after it was first announced that they would be responsible for launching the next trilogy in the Star Wars saga.

Benioff and Weiss were set to begin developing the next chapter in the franchise's boundless future, but they shocked fans around the world when they revealed on Monday that they are simply too busy to take the project on.

"We love Star Wars. When George Lucas built it, he built us too," the pair shared in a statement released to The Hollywood Reporter. "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," they added in the joint statement. "So we are regretfully stepping away."

The duo -- who created the ground breaking Game of Thrones series for HBO, forever changing the face and budget of prestige television -- were tasked with developing the Star Wars universe's next phase of life following the upcoming film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which is expected to cap off the nine-part Skywalker saga that began in 1977.

Benioff and Weiss were slated to write and produce the next film in the main Star Wars storyline -- which is slated to hit theaters on Dec. 16, 2022 -- as well as the following films in the planned trilogy.