Game Of Thrones Creators Lied to HBO To Get The Show Made
Let's adapt this little Middle Age fantasy story, they said. It won't be expensive, they said.
When you have a great idea, nothing can stop you from making it happen. Such was the case with the epic series Game of Thrones.
One of the most famous shows on television today was only greenlit by HBO because its creators lied about the entire genre of the show.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the show's creators, were real fans of George R.R. Martin's novels. So they decided to make a show out of them and pitched it to HBO executives.
But what they promised them was not exactly what they ended up giving them. And there's a perfect explanation for that.
They knew that in order to get a positive answer, they had to sell their product and make the executives believe that the project was totally worth doing and not as expensive as other epics always are.
Of course, that was a lie, and the showrunners later admitted as much.
"We knew most of the people making the decisions were not going to read 4,000 pages of the books and get to the dragons getting bigger and the [major battles]. We were banking on them not finding out until it was too late," Weiss said in the interview with Digital Spy.
They both said that the show would be all about character development and that there would be no big, expensive battles. But as we now know, that's the exact opposite of what the show is.
The series lasted eight seasons, transforming from a cult fantasy show to one of the most expansive stories ever brought to the screen.
The ending of Game of Thrones, which Weiss and Benioff had a big hand in crafting, also proved to be one of the most controversial TV finales of all time.
The lies the showrunners told years ago are mostly just a funny story now, as Game of Thrones has just become one of the biggest shows of all time.
Source: Digital Spy