George R.R. Martin reignites ‘Game of Thrones’ finale feud: I was left ‘out of the loop’
nypost.comthe New York Times reported on Thursday.When asked why he took a step back from production, he responded, “I don’t know — you have to ask Dan and David.”Martin launched the series called “A Song of Ice and Fire” in 1996, with the first book in the series titled “A Game of Thrones.”The series was picked up by HBO in 2010, helmed by David Benioff and D.B.
Weiss — who initially included the story’s creator in production, allowing Martin to visit the sets or provide the duo with advice on who to cast.
Both Benioff and Weiss used Martin’s books as a jumping-off point — until they ultimately caught up with the author’s series in 2011, with the book “A Dance with Dragons.” To this day, the writer has completed and published just five of the seven books planned for the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series.
Martin has said he was busily at work on the forthcoming sixth installment, “The Winds of Winter,” while the final three seasons of “Game of Thrones” was being shot.Many fans slammed the last season of the show, saying that it was too short and were disappointed with the way things ended.
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