George R.R. Martin é um produtor co-executivo do programa e em temporadas anteriores escreveu pelo menos um episódio.
Os produtores David Benioff e Dan Weiss chegaram a abordar essa questão em particular em 2014. antes do início da quarta temporada:
“Last year [2013] we went out to Santa Fe for a week to sit down with [Martin] and just talk through where things are going, because we don’t know if we are going to catch up and where exactly that would be," Benioff says in the April issue of Vanity Fair. "If you know the ending, then you can lay the groundwork for it. And so we want to know how everything ends. We want to be able to set things up. So we just sat down with him and literally went through every character.”
Martin noted that not all of the pieces of the puzzle are in place. “I can give them the broad strokes of what I intend to write, but the details aren’t there yet," he tells Vanity Fair. "I’m hopeful that I cannot let them catch up with me.”
Enquanto nos últimos anos George se afastou do programa para se concentrar em The Winds of Winter (ou pelo menos essa é a resposta oficial, os fãs mais fanáticos acreditam que GRRM e D & D têm tinha diferenças criativas que levaram Martin a retirar sua orientação) ele já havia dado aos criadores do programa informações suficientes para completar a série.
No final, D & D tiveram que preencher algumas das lacunas com suas próprias histórias. Tanto o programa quanto os livros sabem o seu fim, que é declarado como sendo o mesmo, mas estão tomando as devidas proporções. season-5-producers-interview-1201469516 / "> rotas diferentes para chegar lá .
[Q] You’re now at a point where you’ve caught up with the books. What does that mean for the future?
Benioff: Season five is still very much within the books for the most part. The very first scene of the season and the very last scene of the season are book scenes. It’s more season six that’s going to be diverging a bit. We’ve had a lot of conversations with George, and he makes a lot of stuff up as he’s writing it. Even while we talk to him about the ending, it doesn’t mean that that ending that he has currently conceived is going to be the ending when he eventually writes it.
Weiss: It’s like looking at a landscape and saying, “OK, there’s a mountain over there, and I know that I’m getting to that mountain.” There’s an event that’s going to happen, and I know that I’m moving in the general direction of that event, but what’s between where I’m standing now and that thing off on the horizon, I’m not totally sure. I’ll know when I get there, and then I’ll see what the terrain looks like around me and I’ll choose my path once I get closer to it. He figures a lot of this stuff as he goes. He always says he’s a gardener, not an architect.
[Q] You’ve had to make your own editing choices as you’ve made the show.
Benioff: One of the most common questions we’ll get asked is, “Why did you change this from the books?” The answer is always the same, really. It’s just because we thought it would be better for the series. Some of them are really fun characters but we already have the largest cast I think in television history and it just seems to grow every year.