‘Game Of Thrones’ Creator George R.R. Martin Calls Out Most TV & Film Adaptations For Being Worse Than Source Material: “They Never Make It Better”
deadline.comGeorge R.R. Martin is calling out film and TV adaptations of books that don’t live up to their source material. In a new blog post, the author recalls a panel with Neil Gaiman, the creator of the comic book series Sandman, which Netflix adapted into a series.
Gaiman was involved in developing the Netflix series, and although Martin didn’t comment on the adaptation, he said that “very little has changed since” 2022. “If anything, things have gotten worse,” Martin wrote. “Everywhere you look, there are more screenwriters and producers eager to take great stories and ‘make them their own.’ It does not seem to matter whether the source material was written by.” Martin went on to cite famous authors like Stan Lee, Charles Dickens, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Ursula K.
Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, and Jane Austen. “No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and ‘improve’ on it,” he continued. “‘The book is the book, the film is the film,’ they will tell you, as if they were saying something profound.
Then they make the story their own.” “They never make it better, though. Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse,” he said.
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