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You can say that there is indeed a difference between cheap and expensive products. Although several iconic filmmakers and crew create a film or series with minimal budgets, some stories are just too damn expensive to create word-to-word.
That is what happened with George RR Martin when he was working for television in the 1990s. Although people loved his stories, RR Martin would often hear the words that it was way out of their budget league.
George RR Martin Wrote SomeGreatExpensive Stories
Oftentimes, the battle scenes in a film or a series are enough to get people riled up and rooting for their sides. The Ride of the Rohirrim is a great example on how to do a cinematic battle. On the other side, a one-on-one battle (like in Netflix’sThe King) is a better way to end the war.
These battle scenes do not come cheap as the sets, production, people, CGI and everything adds up to the expenses. KnowingGeorge RR Martinand his writing, it could be a safe assumption that the author wrote some iconic battle scenes with a bird’s eye rather than a simple 1v1.
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In an interview withTime, the author ofA Song of Ice and Firesaga talked about how he worked in television from the early to mid-1990s. Although people loved his stories and his writing, it seemed that Martin’s vision would become a costly affair to adapt on the television screens.
From basically the mid-’80s through the mid-’90s, I was involved in television. Whenever I turned in the script in my first draft, I would always get the reaction, ‘George, we love it, but it’s five times our budget.’
He further continued,
And I would go back and do all of those things, because that was the job. But I always loved my first drafts, even though they weren’t as polished — they had all the good stuff.
Well, times changed in the mid-’90s when George RR Martin decided to drop his job and become an author. He revealed that he wanted to unleash his imagination with a complex plot, dragons, castles, direwolves, and a hundred years of history. That book became…A Game of Thrones.
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The irony was that RR Martin wrote it in a way that it was going to be unfilmable. As the world knows, his iconic novels were collected and turned into the classic HBO showGame of Thrones.But not before the author received several offers to turn it into movies!
George RR Martin Was Offered aGame of ThronesMovie!
It was the early 2000s and Peter Jackson had won an Oscar for his iconic vision of J.R.R. Tolkien’sThe Lord of the Ringsfranchise. At the same time, Martin started receivingoffers from Hollywood for an adaptation of his books into movies.
As mentioned earlier, RR Martin wrote something that was unfilmable at the time due to the sheer size of the novels (that remain unfinished, by the way). That’s when Hollywood wanted the author to cut down content from his own novels for a movie adaptation.
I had a number of meetings long before David and Dan, with people who said this is the next Lord of the Rings franchise. But they couldn’t get a handle on the size of the material, the very thing that I set out to do.
He continued,
I had all these meetings saying, “There’s too many characters, it’s too big — Jon Snow is the central character. We’ll eliminate all the other characters and we’ll make it about Jon Snow.” Or “Daenerys is the central character. We’ll eliminate everyone else and make the movie about Daenerys.” And I turned down all those deals.
History knows that George RR Martin had an eventual meeting with David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and they also wanted to convert his books into a series. Things were falling into place and the world got the iconic HBO showGame of Thrones.
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With 8 seasons to its name, the show received a rating of 9.2/10 on IMDb and an equally high 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. The iconic George RR Martin showis available to stream on Max in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
