‘House Of The Dragon’ Author George R.R. Martin Muses On The Many Ways The Series Could Have Started
deadline.comGeorge R.R. Martin, whose novel Fire & Blood is the basis for HBO’s House of the Dragon television series, claims he doesn’t get his way on everything concerning the script.
In a new interview with fellow fantasy writer David Anthony Durham on the RandomHouseBooks.com website, Martin said he would have picked a different starting point in the story for the series. “One of the writers wanted to begin it later, with Aemma dying.
Skip the Great Council, skip the tournament, a scream sounds out, Aemma is dead, that’s where you begin,” Martin said in the interview. “That was one possibility.
Another of the writers wanted to begin even later than that, with Viserys dying. But what happens there? Then you have to present all that material in flashbacks or dialogue, that becomes challenging, too.
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