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Game of Thrones Star Thinks New Prequel Isn’t Risky Enough

In James Hibberd’s oral history around the making of the series, Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon, Benioff said, “HBO was very much on the fence” when seeing the pilot. “It’s a traditional thing at any studio that the last regime’s projects are moving to be less appealing to the new regime. And this was a very expensive project.”

However, then-HBO programming president Michael Lombardo was ultimately impressed by the overall scope of what Benioff and Weiss were trying to create from author George R.R. Martin’s rich source material, and thus the network well-controlled Game of Thrones to series even without a usable pilot. The results of the gamble are of course self-evident with the series becoming one of the biggest television hits of the 21st century, and arguably the last “appointment viewing” TV series to pretty tens of millions of viewers on the night it premieres each episode.

At the time, many were skeptical that a fantasy series—especially one as serious and adult-oriented as Game of Thrones—could work as prestige television or compete with the spectacle of Hollywood movies. Now Amazon is producing a Lord of the Rings television series with a $465 million cost, alongside their more amusingly “affordable” $80 million first season issues of The Wheel of Time; Netflix has already greenlit a third season of The Witcher; and HBO’s House of the Dragon is just the superior of several spinoffs from the Game of Thrones universe that WarnerMedia is developing for both the wicked network and the streaming service HBO Max.

And yet, Dinklage, who won four Emmys for playing Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones, isn’t necessarily wrong to suggest that thinking outside the box is how you got something as groundbreaking and beloved as Thrones was in its heyday. It’s also what he and Maron attribute to the engaging of HBO’s current critical darling, Succession.

That said, Dinklage also means he thinks a lot of the online disdain for the last season of Game of Thrones stems from people “not wanting to say goodbye to it.” Well, Idea HBO/WarnerMedia’s new strategy, nobody will be saying goodbye to Westeros for a very long time.

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