George R.R. Martin recently talked about how he doesn’t want to have the dynamic that Stan Lee had with Marvel.

While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter in an interview, George R.R. Martin outlined how he doesn’t want his dynamic with Game of Thrones to end up like Stan Lee’s dynamic with the MCU.

“George R.R. Martin wants to remain in control of #GameOfThrones and not end up like Stan Lee with Marvel

“He had no power, no influence… just a friendly person they brought to conventions and who did cameos. To be sidelined on the world [you] created, that would be tough”

He wasn’t writing any stories. He couldn’t say, ‘don’t do this character'”

Martin also made comments about how he would like to see his universe built out in the same capacity as Marvel and Star Wars but apparently, with him having more creative control over the ongoings.

“George R.R. Martin wants to build out the #GameOfThrones universe in the same style as Marvel and Star Wars

(via @WSJ | #HOTD)”

George R.R. Martin also talked about how the end of his A Song of Ice and Fire book series is beginning to stray from the ending of the Game of Thrones tv adaptation.

“Another question that I get a lot, especially since the end of GAME OF THRONES on HBO, is whether A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, will end the same way.  An architect would be able to give a short, concise, simple answer to that, but I am much more of a gardener.   My stories grow and evolve and change as I write them.  I generally know where I am going, sure… the final destinations, the big set pieces, they have been my head for years… for decades, in the case of A SONG OF ICE & FIRE.   There are lots of devils in the details, though, and sometimes the ground changes under my feet as the words pour forth.”

The way Martin describes his writing process sounds almost painful but to him, it may be cathartic. As he writes through the pages of Winds of Winter it transforms and rips apart as a lycanthrope transforming into its bestial form would.

“I will say this.

I have been at work in my winter garden.   Things are growing… and changing, as does happen with us gardeners.   Things twist, things change, new ideas come to me (thank you, muse), old ideas prove unworkable, I write, I rewrite, I restructure, I rip everything apart and rewrite again, I go through doors that lead nowhere, and doors that open on marvels.”

Here’s where it gets good— Martin says his writing process is taking him further and further from the ending we saw on HBO’s Game of Thrones series. Those who didn’t enjoy it may get a second chance at an ending they find satisfying.

“What I have noticed more and more of late, however, is my gardening is taking me further and further away from the television series.   Yes, some of the things you saw on HBO in GAME OF THRONES you will also see in THE WINDS OF WINTER (though maybe not in quite the same ways)… but much of the rest will be quite different.”

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