'For my GoT spin-off, chances of failure greater than success'
2 May 2018 3:56 PM GMT
Los Angeles: 'Game of Thrones' spin-offs will bring varied stories from the fictional land of Westeros from a different point of view with no one from the original cast expected to make an appearance. Oscar-winning screenwriter-filmmaker Brian Helgeland's version will narrate a tale from a different period of time, and he says there is immense pressure to make it right and good.
The 'Game of Thrones' series, which brings the story from George R.R. Martin's novels about the quest to claim the Iron Throne, has become a global phenomenon. As the series nears it ends, HBO announced the expansion of the universe with five different spin-offs. Helgeland is attached to one such project. Without divulging much about the project, Helgeland said there are "a lot of ways to go wrong and only a few ways to get it right".
"The show is very loved all around the world by everybody. Martin has created a world which everyone feels is real. They love to watch the characters, they feel they are very much alive and that is such an amazing thing to have been done. The chances of failing are much greater than the chances of succeeding," Helgeland said.
"I do not think that it will fail. It will succeed, but it is a new version of it. Making it is very difficult. So, there is a lot of pressure on us to make it right and make it good."
Helgeland is known for Mystic River, L.A. Confidential, and Legend.
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