George R.R. Martin: 'Game of Thrones' Should Have Had More Seasons - Variety

George R.R. Martin: 'Game of Thrones' Should Have Had More Seasons

With “House of the Dragon” debuting Sunday evening on HBO, “Game of Thrones” employed George R.R. Martin spoke with The Wall Street Journal near the network’s franchise, which is adapted from his hit book series.

Although “Game of Thrones” was a superlative hit for HBO, becoming an Emmy darling and garnering a huge fanbase over the years, series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss elected to end the series once eight seasons. Martin has shared that he advocated for many more seasons for the series, giving the storytelling a larger canvas.

“I was proverb it needs to be 10 seasons at least and maybe 12, 13. I lost that one,” he told the Journal.

Ultimately, Martin didn’t have much say in the final undiluted of “Game of Thrones,” as the events of the series stretched beyond the storyline met by books he has published so far.

“I had no contribution to the later seasons nonetheless, you know, inventing the world, the story and all the characters,” he said. “I own I have more influence now [on ‘House of the Dragon’] than I did on the unique show.”

Martin also spoke about the unconventional process for developing a spinoff of the main series, in which five teams developing separate concepts visited Martin in Santa Fe, N.M. to rolling their respective visions.

“It was like we were in the NFL playoffs and I’m coaching all the teams,” he said. “Emotionally, that was a little odd.”

Notably, HBO shelved one thought after producing a pilot, which starred Naomi Watts and reportedly cost nearly $30 million. Martin apparently had reservations about the concept before it was shot, given that it was set in “an weak era only briefly described” in his work.

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