David Benioff and DB Weiss supposedly rushed the last series in order to make
Star Wars – and now they’re no longer making the film. But are fans right to be so enraged?
The stink of this year’s
Game of Thrones finale might finally be dissipating, but that doesn’t mean it’s over. Especially not after David Benioff and DB Weiss appeared at the Austin film festival last week, apparently with the sole intention of enraging Game of Thrones fans.
The talking points were numerous. According to one attendee, who tweets under the name @ForArya, Benioff and Weiss delivered a greatest hits collection of fan insults. They described their dismal initial pilot, and how they were only given a second chance because
HBO already had several foreign pre-sales by that point. They said they didn’t know what they were doing. And, most damningly, they tried to eliminate overt fantasy elements because “we didn’t just want to appeal to that type of fan”.