They even made Strauss laugh, something they had been advised not to expect.
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From there, Benioff and Weiss would take Thrones through a marathon series of meetings to determine its fate, starting with someone who had been dubbed, I kid you not, “the scariest person in Hollywood”: then-HBO programming president Carolyn Strauss, who had a reputation as a no-nonsense businessperson with a sharp eye for developing content. As a result, the author gave them his blessing to adapt his story.īut that gathering was only the first of many. They correctly answered this question - back in the day, mind you, when it was not common knowledge but the kind of theory you were most likely to find in internet forums or a World of Warcraft guild chat. Luckily, Benioff and Weiss brought a genuine passion for the series to the pitch meeting. I wanted to see if they had really read the books and how much they had paid attention. I did famously ask them the question “Who is Jon Snow’s mother?” They said they read the books. Yet while it seemed to go well, there was one crucial moment where it all could have come undone. Martin, David Benioff, and Dan Weiss lasted for hours and laid the initial groundwork for Game of Thrones. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) The Meetings Weiss and executive producer David Benioff attend “Game Of Thrones” Season 4 New York Premiere After Party at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center on Main New York City. NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 18: Creator and executive producer D.B. One example of such an answer? “Jon Snow is the central character, we’ll focus on him and cut the rest away.” “The answers I got back were not ones I wanted to hear,” Martin recollected to Hibberd. His novels were each around 1,000 pages long, and featured an incredibly large and complex cast of characters. None had the kind of vision the author was hoping for, however. By that point, Martin had released four novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, and many studios were calling to adapt it. No small order to make a television show out of, right?įast forward to the mid-2000s, when studios were ravenous for fantasy stories to dovetail off the success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films.
Tired of the constant creative compromises and limitations that are an unavoidable part of the television industry, Martin set to work on A Song of Ice and Fire with the mindset of writing an “unfilmable” story: one as large as his imagination, with thousands of characters, a deep and intricate history, and a world every bit as vivid as any real place. In 1991, fresh off a seven-year streak working in Hollywood as a screenwriter, Martin returned to writing novels, starting with this idea he had for an epic fantasy series. He had penned several science fiction and horror novels as well as a multitude of shorter works, including the award winning (and soon-to-be adapted) novelette Sandkings. Martin already had a long career by the time he released A Game of Thrones back in 1996. It all begins with the books, of course. George R.R.
(Photo by Tiffany Rose/Getty Images) A Song of Ice and Fire Martin of “Game of Thrones” signs autographs during the 2014 Comic-Con International Convention-Day 3 at the San Diego Convention Center on Jin San Diego, California. SAN DIEGO, CA – JULY 25: Writer George R.R. It’s especially fascinating in regards to the light it sheds on the show getting its initial lease on life…because right from the start, everything about Game of Thrones was a long shot. He had unparalleled access to the cast, crew and production team. If you want to take a deep, celebratory dive into the show’s production, Hibberd’s book is the most comprehensive recounting out there. Hibberd is the writer for Entertainment Weekly who covered Thrones for its entire eight-season run. Please note before we start that a great deal of the information and quotes in this article are sourced from Fire Cannot Kill A Dragon by James Hibberd. To celebrate the premiere’s 10-year anniversary, we’re taking a look back at the myriad obstacles the show had to overcome to get to our television screens. While Thrones’ run would be defined by countless instances of beating the odds and overcoming production challenges, there is perhaps no better example than the saga of how the show got made in the first place. Yet the fact that the show premiered at all was an astounding achievement in itself. The first episode, “Winter Is Coming,” garnered around 2.2 million viewers in ratings for its initial broadcast - a respectable amount, but not one that gave any hint of the record-shattering numbers the show would get in later seasons. It’s hard to believe, but the series premiere of Game of Thrones aired 10 years ago this month, on April 17, 2011.
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