‘Game Of Thrones’ writer George R.R. Martin opens up about writing ‘The Red Wedding’
nme.comGame Of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin has opened up about writing the ‘Red Wedding’ chapter of his novels in a new interview.Martin said the chapter, which was later turned into a notorious episode of the Game Of Thrones television series that saw several major characters killed at once, was one of the most difficult he’s ever written.“I finished the entire book, except for the Red Wedding [chapter],” Martin told The Independent. “That was such a painful chapter for me to write, losing some characters that I had come to know and love.
Nine years I’d been with these characters, and now I was going to kill them horribly! That was difficult.”“It’s a horrible chapter, and it upsets people,” he continued. “It makes people angry, it makes people sad.
People throw the book against the wall or into the fireplace. When it was on TV, it had the same effect on tens of thousands, if not millions, of people.
To my mind, that’s good. We’re talking about death here!”Martin went on to say that he thinks death should be difficult to write about.“We all in our real lives have experienced death,” he says. “Your parents die.
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