Saturday, 17th April 2021 at 9:00 am
Game of Thrones was a disaster. Nothing made sense, it looked terrible and the cast weren’t happy. At best, those who saw it offered backhanded compliments – at worst, they called it a “pile of sh .” With millions of dollars down the pan, showrunner David Benioff and DB Weiss were in serious trouble.
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Or, as future Chernobyl showrunner Craig Mazin told them at the time – “you guys have a massive problem.”
But of course, this wasn’t the Game of Thrones that the rest of the world was first introduced to 10 years ago today on 17th April, 2011.
March 11, 2021
Olivia Cooke: “Writers Have Toned Down Game Of Thrones Prequel After Backlash” (Pic Credit: Instagram/livkatecooke)
The writers behind the upcoming Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, have toned down scenes featuring violence towards women, according to star Olivia Cooke.
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The actress read the script years ago and reveals it’s now nothing like the draft she first saw, thanks to the backlash directed at the writers and producers over Game of Thrones scenes that particularly featured Emilia Clarke’s dragon queen character Daenerys Targaryen.
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“I wouldn’t feel comfortable in being a part of anything that has just egregious graphic violence towards women for no reason whatsoever, just because they want it to be tantalising in a way that gets viewers,” Olivia told The Telegraph.