re: GoT spinoff Aegon's Conquest in the works

Entertainment Weekly interview

This contains a polite version of it, in which he got his shooting dates for the season and realized something was wrong, then had it confirmed when talking with the show runners who said “your time in the series is up.”

Considering he had read the books, he was shocked because he knew the character lived past that point.


Versions of the story I can’t find at the moment were that he pointed this out to the show runners and was basically laughed off. In wrestling terms, he was treated as being a mark for himself, meaning that he had an overblown belief in his own importance.


IOW, they thought what they were doing took precedence over the source material. True to a degree BUT, if the ending of the story involves characters you killed off three seasons early, you write yourself into a corner.

This is why JK Rowling was on set during the filming of one of the later Harry Potter books and said “Yeah, you probably don’t want to adapt out Kreacher. You may need him later.”, as Kreacher was a plot point for the final book.