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Needle & Pen @ForArya
At 3PM David Benioff and D.B Weiss #DnD started a session at the #AustinFilmFestival, I am a little late, but will live tweet as soon as I get there. #GameOfThrones
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Someone asked did they go on-line and David said yes. Dan literally said “we were geographically challenged” and the maps were helpful.
so they really bluffed their way through that pitch meeting huh, or it didn't matter bc...
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David is also saying that he went to fan casting pages and that is how they found Jason Mamoa.
so they searched for that but not for...? k
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They are describing their pitch and how nervous they were. They pitched to Carolyn Strauss who has a reputation of being a tough pitch. They were very nervous “because of how bad we wanted.”
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David is describing the pre-meeting with GRRM who was questioning their bona fides and “we didn’t really have any.” We had never done TV and we didn’t have any. We don’t know why he trusted us with his life’s work.”
turns out their qualifications were that they were both rich white bros
"benioff"'s dad was the head of goldman sachs lol
weird how they got the gig for literally no good reason huh
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They talking about the pilot and their friends who they let watch their first attempt at a pilot. One of the people was Craig Mazin (wrote Chernobyl) Scott Frank and Ted Griffin. He acknowledged that the first pilot was basic writing mistakes.
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They acknowledge that they have no idea why after such a dismal pilot why they went forward. “Everything we could make a mistake in, we did.” Script, casting, costume.
oh yeah, and they totally botched the pilot, but hbo plowed forward with them anyway! [for reasons]
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Dan is saying that #GameofThrones was basically an expensive film school for he and Dave. For example, they had no idea how to work with costume designers, and it was a huge learning experience.
oh? how fun!
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Two months before the pilot was to air, the episodes were averaging 39 minutes and HBO made then write and film 100 minutes of scenes to meet their contractual obligations.
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The moderator is asking them about their comments acknowledging they didn’t understand the characters, and the extra minutes helped them understand the characters better.
the extra scenes that
*you* wrote helped you understand the characters better? lol, k
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Dan is saying that he let the actors redefined the roles, esp Maisie and they began writing for the actors, it is like the actor moved into the “house” and redecorated. He said he learned about the characters from the actors.
beats doing it yourself i guess
but props to the actors for trying to take ownership of this from these clowns
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The moderator asked why they chose to write all the episodes by themselves: “Because we didn’t know better.” David said HBO wanted them to hire other writers and they decided to have Bryan Cogman, their assistant, write four episodes.
hbo wanted to take the keys away, but couldn't [for reasons]
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Dan wanted to remove as many fantasy elements as possible bc “we didn’t just want to appeal to that type of fan.” They wanted to expand the fan base to people beyond the fantasy fan base to “mothers, NFL players”...
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When we pitched HBO, we promised them that we would downplay the fantasy elements. (Paraphrase)
kool man, great show u did from s6-8
just shivved all the fantasy stuff bc you morans had zero clue what to do with it
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Were you listening to the feedback to your fans as things went along?
Dan: “We really did not.”
Dan doesn’t see the value of considering other people’s reactions.
Dave acknowledged that he googled the show and it upset him. Dan, no.
lol, **** off clowns
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Did you really sit down and try to boil the elements of the books down? Did you really try to understand it’s major elements.
No. We didn’t. The scope was too big. It was about the scenes we were trying to depict and the show was about power.
lol
i mean the show literally opens with frozen zombies killing some ice cops but ok whatever
and the stuff they had to say about power was mostly garbage anyway
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What was your process?
We just started writing. But as things went on we had to outline. Divvied up scripts. They didn’t work together in the same room. One took first half, the other the last half, then they would swap. They gave episodes to Bryan Cogman and David Hill.
ok
anyway, cool that this confirms most of what ppl have been complaining about for a while now
these dudes suck bigly, hopefully they disappear forever, but obv they'll return to make some super terrible **** forever bc that's how failsons do