Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin was not happy with the direction that hugely popular HBO series took the story in its final three seasons. A new book about HBO has revealed that Martin felt that the outline he gave to the showrunners was ignored.
While the first five seasons of Game of Thrones were reasonably faithful adaptations of Martin's hugely popular novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, the next book had not been published by the time work started on Season 6. Nevertheless, Martin gave showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss a template of his plans for the rest of the series. But in James Andrew Miller's new book, Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, Martin's representative Paul Haas states that they didn't follow it.
"George loves Dan and Dave, but after Season 5 he did start to worry about the path they were [going down] because George knows where the story goes," Haas said, via CBR. "He started saying, 'You're not following my template.' The first five seasons stuck to George's roadmap. Then they went off George's roadmap."
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