Overall, author George RR Martin was very pleased with HBO’s debut season. Game of thrones. The heavily involved casting process found so many perfect strangers, the show handled some of its iconic moments well (“Ned Stark’s death couldn’t have gone better,” Martin said), and showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss managed to add new twists. layers. for certain characters (such as Cersei Lannister, as seen when talking to Robert Baratheon about her broken marriage).
However, there were two scenes in the show’s first season in 2011 that managed to bring down the bestselling author, and both were due to the production trying to make the most epic television series of all time in what was then considered a huge amount. ($6). ) budget. million per episode), but far from necessary to open the author’s vision.
The scene that bothered him the most was only “fixed” by him. thronesthe prequel dragon house. in the first season he picked upKing Robert, along with several others, embarked on a fateful hunt in the forest when he was attacked by a wild boar.
“We really ran low on budget, my least favorite scene on the entire show, in eight seasons: King Robert goes hunting,” Martin explained in the book. Fire cannot kill a dragon.. “Four kids walking through the woods with spears and Robert stabbing Renly. In the book, Robert goes hunting, we learn that he is followed by a wild boar, they bring him back and he dies. so never [wrote a hunting scene]. But he knew what a real hunting party was like. There would be a hundred boys. There would be pavilions. They would be hunters. It would be dogs. He touched his horns – This is How the king will hunt! He didn’t go out into the woods with his three friends carrying spears in hopes of finding a wild boar.”
Martin’s long description is just that. Continue He appeared in episode three when he played King Viserys’ hunting party.
Interestingly, the second scene of the first season thrones who frustrated Martin due to budget constraints also received a Continue replay: racing tournament. Although the sequence thrones Highly effective at portraying believable action with practical effect, as well as presenting the crucial intrigue of King Landing’s court, Martin’s original vision for the sequel was more like a Westeros Super Bowl.
“There were some points we had to cut,” Martin said of the original race scene. “The jousting tournament was one of them. Sponsored by the king and capital, the tournament was a major event in the Middle Ages. s [co-executive producer Bryan Cogman] He wrote a faithful version [in the original script]. There were dozens of knights, you saw eight different jousts, you have a sense of fantasy, the rise and fall of competitors and the gamble of ordinary people. We should have been at least as big a story of knights But we didn’t even get to that. The only joust we saw was essential to the plot. Still, I thought it worked pretty well. “
Once again, Continue In the show’s premiere episode, he performed his own version of a jousting tournament, with an extended sequence in front of a very large (albeit CG-enhanced) crowd. obviously Continue A budget of nearly $20 million per episode helped ramp up production.
dragon house airs Sunday night on HBO.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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