Nowadays, you would get rightly flamed for daring to suggest that mammoth fantasy epic Game Of Thrones was anything short of a masterpiece.
But by the TV show’s creators’ own admission, it wasn’t always as good as it is now. When they created a pilot episode based on George R R Martin’s novels it was slated and even they not concede that it was, in the words of an expert screenwriter, ‘complete shit’.
Dan Weiss and David Benioff are two of the few people to have actually seen the legendary pilot. And when they showed it to Hollywood screenwriter Craig Mazin, they were told to change everything about the episode, which ‘sucked.’
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