They faithfully adapted and paved new ground for the “Game of Thrones” universe. Why not give it a whirl with “Star Wars?”

David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, executive producers of “Game of Thrones,” will write and produce a series of new “Star Wars” movies, the Walt Disney Company said on Tuesday. There were no details about the number of movies or when they would be released. But Disney did say that the Benioff and Weiss films would be separate from the Luke Skywalker universe of movies and the trilogy that Rian Johnson, the writer and director of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” is working on.

The deal amounts to a coup for each party. Disney gets two extremely in-demand producers who have proved they can satisfy “Thrones” book loyalists along with drawing in millions of general viewers that made “Game of Thrones” the most popular show in HBO’s history.

And for Mr. Benioff and Mr. Weiss, the “Star Wars” assignment could prove to be more welcoming than their planned HBO project announced last summer. The news that the two star producers would work on “Confederate,” a fictionalized drama that imagines the South won the Civil War and slavery remains intact in today’s America, was met with an immediate backlash.