House of the Dragon Revised George RR Martin’s Favorite Game of Thrones Scenes – The Hollywood Reporter
All in all, author George RR Martin is super excited about HBO’s first season Game of Thrones. The casting process – which he was actively involved in – revealed so many idealistic unknowns, the show handled some of his iconic moments perfectly (“Death of Ned Stark couldn’t have been done better,” Martin said), and hosts David Benioff and Dan Weiss have managed to add new classes for certain characters (such as Cersei Lannister, as noted previously). seen in her conversation with Robert Baratheon about their ruined marriage).
However, there were two scenes from the show’s first season in 2011 that fooled the best-selling author — and both were because the producer was trying to create the most epic TV series of all time. with a budget that was then considered sizable ($6 million per episode), but far from what was needed to pull away from the author’s vision.
The scene that annoys him the most has just been “fixed” by Thrones‘prequel Dragon’s House. In the first season of OkayKing Robert embarked on an ill-fated hunt through the forest with a few others when he was gored to death by a wild boar.
“Where we really fell short on funding was my least favorite scene from the entire show, of all eight seasons: King Robert went hunting,” Martin explains in the book. Fire can’t kill dragons. “Four guys walking through the woods with spears and Robert is giving Renly shit. In the book, Robert goes hunting, we get word that he was gored by a wild boar, and they bring him back and he dies. So I never [wrote a hunting scene]. But I know what a royal hunting party is like. There will be a hundred boys. There will be stalls. There will be hunters. There will be dogs. There will be a trumpet blow – It’s a how a king hunts! He won’t just walk through the woods with his three friends holding spears in the hopes of meeting a wild boar. “
What exactly is Martin’s extended description Dragon depicted in the third episode as it chronicles King Viserys’ hunting party.
Interestingly, another scene from the first season of Thrones made Martin disappointed due to budget constraints also received Dragon do-over: Tourney jousting. While the sequence in Thrones highly effective in staging some compelling action with realistic effects along with introducing some of the key plots of King’s Landing, Martin’s original vision for the Super Bowl-like scene of Westeros.
“There were a few spots we had to cut out,” says Martin. “The jousting tournament is one of them. A tournament in the Middle Ages sponsored by the king and the capital was a huge thing. And [co-executive producer Bryan Cogman] wrote a faithful version [in the original script]. There are dozens of knights, you see eight different crowds, you get a feel for the competition and the competitors up and down and the ordinary people betting. We should be at least as big as The story of a knight but we can’t even get there. The only mobs we see are necessary for the plot. However, I think it works pretty well.”
Once again, Dragon staged his own version of a jousting tournament in the first episode of the show, with an extended sequence in front of a very large crowd (albeit enhanced with CG). Clear, Dragon which had a budget of close to $20 million per episode made the production a bit bigger.
Dragon’s House airs Sunday nights on HBO.
