Game of Thrones producer D.B. Weiss recently spoke about separating the show from the book series, and teased what’s to come. Beware of spoilers.
In a lengthy interview with the Huffington Post, Weiss talks about working with A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin:
We know what’s in the first five books, and we talked to him a fair amount about what he has in mind going forward [in subsequent books], to make sure we don’t do anything that’s going to be too drastic in that regard. We do want to make sure that, while we do need to leave the highway here and there, we want to make sure we don’t end up taking a detour that doesn’t let us get to the places we need to go down the road. I think we’ve got a pretty good handle on the world and on the things that are going to be most central down the line.
In particular, he focuses on how Robb’s story needed to be different in the HBO series:
Robb is absent from the second book, but he’s not absent. He’s not a point-of-view character. He’s basically not “on-screen” in the book, but in a way, he is on-screen because in the novel, Robb is mentioned as are stories about something that Robb did.Adding to that, we felt, is the immense talent and magnetism of Richard Madden [who plays Robb] and what he brought to the character — it was a very easy decision to make sure he had his own storyline that spanned the whole of the second season.
Finally, and book fans will know what Weiss is referring to, he discusses a huge moment coming up in the third book (and possibly the third season):
All I can really just say is that we’re still writing the third season, so we can let you know when the scripts are done. But we won’t let you know. [Laughs.] It’s one of those things where even telling people that something big is coming is probably doing them, we think, a bit of a disservice. I remember how I experienced that event in the books and it was just such a massive, shocking, “Holy shit!” moment for me, and part of the shock of it was not having any idea that it was coming. So to the extent that it’s possible, we’d love to preserve that for the people who haven’t read the books.
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Read the full interview with Weiss on the Huffington Post.
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