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Despite the fact that it’s now almost been five years since the Game of Thrones finale, many fans still harbor ill will towards showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for the way the iconic series concluded.
Now that the pair have a new series releasing on Netflix on March 21, the duo are speaking to the press for what feels like the first time in years, which means Game of Thrones, the series that made their careers, is undoubtedly going to be brought up.
During a recent cover story in The Hollywood Reporter, for example, the pair were asked what they would change about the show if anything at all. Instead of using the question to build a bridge to fans and acknowledge the hurt they feel over the show’s shambolic ending, the pair zeroed on a moment so obscure that most people won’t even know what they’re talking about.
“One thing I know I wish we could have done is there’s the character Mord the Jailer,” Benioff said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
“It was a mistake not bringing Mord the Jailer back into it. We always talked about doing it,” Weiss said.
“And we had the scene for it. There’s a scene set in a tavern…” Benioff added.
“Was it Brienne or The Hound? But we realized too late that Mord could have owned the tavern. We could have had that actor in the background acting exactly the way he did as a jailer, except now as a small business owner. It was just such an obvious, no-brainer, day-after idea,” Weiss concludes.
The fact that the duo seem like they haven’t learned from their mistakes on Game of Thrones certainly doesn’t bode well for their upcoming series 3 Body Problem
Here is the official synopsis for 3 Body Problem, which is based on the sci-fi novel of the same name.
A young woman’s fateful decision in 1960s China reverberates across space and time to a group of brilliant scientists in the present day. As the laws of nature unravel before their eyes five former colleagues reunite to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history.
Benedict Wong, Eia Gonzalez, John Bradley, Rosalind Chao, Alex Sharp, Jess Hong, Jonathan Pryce, Liam Cunningham, and more.