Who is Jon Snow’s mother?
That was the question George R.R. Martin posed to series
creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss when they met to gain Martin’s permission
to adapt his epic tale of conflict and conquest for television.
“We threw out our guess,” Benioff recalls, to which Martin
smiled. They had sealed the deal.
It was always the intention to pitch the series to HBO, and
when Benioff and Weiss proposed the idea to Martin, the author remarked that he
never envisioned his work finding a home anywhere else.