They recast some characters, including Daenerys and Catelyn, and reshot almost every scene. Between their résumés and the catastrophic pilot they delivered, it would have been easy to believe that an adaptation of an epic fantasy like A Song of Ice and Fire was simply too much for them.īut after rejecting the original pilot, HBO allowed Benioff and Weiss to try again and reshoot nearly the entire thing. Benioff had found a bit more success, having written the screenplay for 2002’s 25th Hour, 2004’s Troy, 2007’s The Kite Runner, and 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Weiss had written a novel and a few movie scripts that had never made it to the silver screen. In 2009, Benioff and Weiss were not well known and had very limited experience as screenwriters. “There’s this horse in the background with this enormous horse schlong,” Martin said. During one scene, a horse got “visibly excited,” according to Martin. Though this original pilot has never been released publicly, it reportedly wasn’t shot well, either, as the scope of the show failed to make use of the on-site locations of Northern Ireland and Morocco. Why Won’t George Let George Finish ‘Winds of Winter’? “Watching them watch that original pilot was one of the most painful experiences of my life,” Benioff later said. Their audiences didn’t pick up on important plot details-like that Jaime and Cersei Lannister were brother and sister-and it meant that key moments in the pilot failed to register. Martin’s books, it was obvious that the pilot failed to relay basic exposition. When the two showed it to friends and family who weren’t familiar with George R.R.
The first pilot that Benioff and Weiss created for Thrones was reportedly a disaster. “But that was because we didn’t know any better.” “It was going well,” Benioff later told EW’s James Hibberd. But when they started recording the pilot, things didn’t go as planned-though neither of the two then-inexperienced screenwriters knew it at the time. Weiss nearly four years of writing, negotiating, and logistics before they were able to start actually filming the fantasy series they wanted to make so badly, back in 2009. The Game of Thrones pilot was born of chaos.
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