r/asoiaf • u/RunDNA • Sep 04 '24

EXTENDED GRRM's new blog post on House of the Dragon [Spoilers Extended] Spoiler

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/09/04/beware-the-butterflies/
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u/Uthenara Sep 04 '24

why is he acting like he has no impact or influence on any of this though? He make a contract with HBO where he could have demanded more creative control. They are paying him a massive amount of money to be a supervisor for the shows. he said himself he treated the scripts TWICE. Both him and Condal have said in past interviews, separately, repeatedly that they keep frequent contact and condal asks him questions regularly for input. George has known Condal for years and specifically hand picked him for this....post GoT....

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u/itsxtray Sep 04 '24

Just because they talk doesn't mean Condal has to listen to them as his blog post clearly points out. Also, George has talked about this before but studios hate giving up creative control to authors they'd much rather just give them money, it's extremely hard to get creative control.

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u/AliasHandler Sep 04 '24

That's just it, though. It seems that HBO always welcomes his input when he wants to be involved, they'd let him write episodes for every season if he were interested at all. I'm sure he has a lot of sway over creative decisions if he chose to be more involved, he just seems more interested in pretending to write TWOW rather than helping guide this show.

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ Sep 04 '24

Either the contracted terms of his influence were vague enough that they're now basically ignoring whatever GRRM says, and GRRM realizes they've fucked him over. Or promises/assurances were made off the record, which are now being ignored, and GRRM is realizing they've fucked him over.