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George R.R. Martin says his relationship with ‘House of the Dragon’ showrunner Ryan Condal is ‘abysmal’
“It’s worse than rocky. It’s abysmal. I hired Ryan. I thought Ryan and I were partners. And we were all through the first season. I would read early drafts of the scripts. I would give notes. He would change some things. It was working really well — I thought”
“Then we got into season two, and he basically stopped listening to me. I would give notes, and nothing would happen. Sometimes he would explain why he wasn’t doing it. Other times, he would tell me, ‘Oh, OK, yeah, I’ll think about that.’ It got worse and worse, and I began to get more and more annoyed. Finally, it got to a point where I was told by HBO that I should submit all my notes to them and they would give Ryan our combined notes”
GRRM later did a call with HBO and Condal where the plan for S3 was discussed, and he allegedly said, ‘This is not my story any longer’
HBO then asked GRRM to step back from HOTD after the call, and a few months later he was brought back aboard the project — ‘I can’t talk about it’
(via @THR)