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George R. R. Martin Says It’s Annoying When TV Adaptations Don’t Stick to the Source Material: “They change things and I don’t think they generally improve them." (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He talked about this 8 years ago on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/4uwjq9/spoilers_everything_twow_isnt_coming_this_year_is/d6lotl1?context=3

He agrees with you. It's not his style, he doesn't think he's the right person for the job, and would decline if asked to do it.

And to the point made by @Albbi@lemmy.ca, at the time he had only read the first book so it doesn't seem that he's in the "huge fan" category.

Maybe something has changed since then but I really doubt it.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://www.brandonsanderson.com/pages/wheel-of-time-faq

While you are supporting me on that other point, I have to say, Sanderson was a HUGE fan of Robert Jordan

[–] GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I should have worded that better. I meant that he's not a huge fan of ASOIAF so it's quite different from the WoT situation.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah that makes sense, didnt even occur to me that you could have been talking about ASOIAF haha