HBO cancels GOT Prequel Spinoff

[Patrick Chewing]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-thrones-naomi-watts-led-prequel-dead-at-hbo-1250795


Good God I wonder if HBO is planning on re-shooting Season 8. Funny how this news coincides with D&D walking away from their Star Wars project. Those clowns should never write or direct again.

[highwhey]

pretty sure d&d got fired from the star wars project...the netflix project they accepted is a project they had rejected twice in the past.

also, they rushed GOT for the star wars project right?

:facepalm

[Patrick Chewing]

pretty sure d&d got fired from the star wars project...the netflix project they accepted is a project they had rejected twice in the past.

also, they rushed GOT for the star wars project right?

:facepalm


That'd be hilarious if the negative backlash they've been receiving forced them to revert back to old projects they passed over just so they can work again. God I hope that's the case. :lol

[highwhey]

That'd be hilarious if the negative backlash they've been receiving forced them to revert back to old projects they passed over just so they can work again. God I hope that's the case. :lol
yep...

[Facepalm]

pretty sure d&d got fired from the star wars project...the netflix project they accepted is a project they had rejected twice in the past.

also, they rushed GOT for the star wars project right?

:facepalm
Yea I'm sure that's their spin on it to save face. Keep them as far as possible from Star Wars or any other popular franchise. They are a couple of hacks that lucked into the GIT. Once they ran out of GRRM material they showed their true colors as fan fiction hacks


https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a29608442/benioff-weiss-game-of-thrones-showrunners-writers-panel-austin-film-festival/



The Game of Thrones Creators Finally Admit They Truly Didn't Know What They Were Doing
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss told a panel at the Austin Film Festival why they removed the fantasy elements from the HBO show.

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BY GABRIELLE BRUNEY
OCT 28, 2019
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss told reporters before the series' finale that they intended to spend the final moments of the show that had occupied a decade of their lives “very drunk and far away from the internet." And they’ve pretty much kept their heads down since, pulling out of a Thrones panel at San Diego Comic-Con and generally keeping a pretty low profile in the wake of final season that was so controversial that it’s found more than 1.75 million fans signing a petition to remake the season with “competent writers.”


Benioff and Weiss also apparently admitted that they didn’t understand the characters as little as two months before the pilot aired. “In every scene, we were three lines away from ’Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” Weiss joked, according to the Austin American Statesman. With episodes averaging under 40 minutes, HBO demanded that they add another 100 minutes to the season. Apparently, the Season One scene between Robert and Cersei was a result of this push—and it made Benioff and Weiss realize that they had neglected to write a single scene for the couple.

In perhaps their most tone-deaf remarks of all, the writers reportedly said they stripped the source material of some of its most overtly fantastical elements (Lady Stoneheart, anyone?) because they "didn’t just want to appeal to that type of fan.” They wanted to attract an audience broader than the fantasy fans, in order to include “mothers” and “NFL players”—as if members of those demographics can’t like pure fantasy.



Describing their first meeting with original author George RR Martin, David said: ‘We didn’t really have any [experience]. ‘We don’t know why he trusted us with his life’s work.’ Yikes, what a brave confession to make after all the season eight backlash. They admitted to making basic writing mistakes, saying: ‘Everything we could make a mistake in, we did,’ which included script, casting, and even costume design. To them, the experience was basically an ‘expensive film school’, an opportunity to learn how to write, produce and direct. Oh, and a shared scene between Robert Baratheon and Cersei Lannister was only added to fill a 100-minute contractual obligation, and they themselves didn’t even understand why they added the scene. ‘Robert Baratheon who?’ – David and DB, probably (Picture: HBO) However, they even admitted that the long episode helped them learn about the characters.

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What might make you cringe even harder is when asked why they didn’t bring in more writers to the show, they simply replied: ‘Because we didn’t know better.’ HBO wanted to hire more writers but they chose only Bryan Cogman, their assistant, to write four episodes.


The original pilot was so bad they had to reshoot it. They admitted that it was the actors that understood the characters D&D just got lucky they hired competent professionals

[Kblaze8855]

George mentioned that they are making the fire and blood one about the history of the Targaryens so I guess this more fantasy one with characters nobody ever heard of was scrapped. At least george wrote the shit that happens in this one. The one set thousands of years ago would have been complete fanfiction. Not that there is much dialogue in Fire and Blood. Its more like a big wikipedia entry....but its better than nothing.

[ItsMillerTime]

HBO: but wait!

‘House of the Dragon’: HBO confirms 10 episodes of ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/30/house-of-the-dragon-hbo-confirms-game-of-thrones-prequel.html)

GRRM is involved in this one. Should be good.