George R.R. Martin Reveals His Least Favourite Game of Thrones Scene

George R.R. Martin has revealed his least favourite Game of Thrones scene from all eight seasons of the HBO series. Entertainment Weekly reports that Martin shared his disappointment of the King Robert hunting scene in the upcoming book Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon, a definitive oral history of the blockbuster series that draws on the author's many long days and nights spent on production sets all over the world in order to bring the HBO adaptation to the small screen. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/23/george-r-r-martin-gives-an-update-on-the-winds-of-winter"] "Where we really fell down in terms of budget was my least favorite scene in the entire show, in all eight seasons: King Robert goes hunting," Martin explains in the book. "Four guys walking on foot through the woods carrying spears and Robert is giving Renly s***. In the books, Robert goes off hunting, we get word he was gored by a boar, and they bring him back and he dies. So I never did [a hunting scene]. "But I knew what a royal hunting party was like. There would have been a hundred guys. There would have been pavilions. There would have been huntsmen. There would have been dogs. There would have been horns blowing — that's how a king goes hunting! He wouldn't have just been walking through the woods with three of his friends holding spears hoping to meet a boar." Game of Thrones originally cost around $6 million per episode in its first season but ballooned to $15 million per episode for its final season. Martin seemed to blame the budget in season one for not being able to bring the scene to life in the way that he would have imagined, as he admitted that they "couldn't afford horses or dogs or pavilions" in those earlier years. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=game-of-thrones-which-dead-tv-characters-are-still-alive-in-winds-of-winter&captions=true"] This revelation comes shortly after Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss opened up about their reasons for leaving Lady Stoneheart out of the series, with both of them admitting that their decision to cut the fan-favourite character from the show had been partly influenced by their insider knowledge of Martin's pre-planned storylines. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

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