George R.R. Martin thinks screenwriters should stick a little closer to their source material

According to the author, screenwriters make their stories worse 'nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand'

George R.R. Martin is sure spending a lot of time writing on his blog and not actually finishing Winds Of Winter, huh? His latest dispatch concerns screenwriters adapting original source material, something he knows a bit about. Spoiler alert: he doesn’t think they usually do it very well.

“Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse.” Martin has generally been gracious toward David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of his own novel’s adaptation, but did imply that his written ending would be different from the show’s in a blog post from 2019. Well, we think he means it will be different... it’s pretty cryptic: “How will it all end? I hear people asking. The same ending as the show? Different? Well… yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes. And no.

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