'Game of Thrones' Season 6 Spoilers: New Episodes Won't Spoil Future Books? [PHOTO]
There's been a lot of assumption that now that Game of Thrones began moving ahead of the narrative in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series last year, that the upcoming season would completely spoil what he was writing in the highly anticipated The Winds of Winter, though the show's creators are assuring book fans that it won't happen.
In a new interview, David Benioff and Dan Weiss admit that while this will be the first year that show completely supersedes the narrative established in Martin's books, what they're doing won't ruin the next book in the series for those who have been faithful to that medium as well.
"People are talking about whether the books are going to be spoiled—and it's really not true," Benioff told Entertainment Weekly. "So much of what we're doing diverges from the books at this point. And while there are certain key elements that will be the same, we're not going to talk so much about that—and I don't think George is either. People are going to be very surprised when they read the books after the show. They're quite divergent in so many respects for the remainder of the show."
In addition, they revealed that they actually thought that the fact that they have outpaced Martin—who announced in January that The Winds of Winter wouldn't be released before the sixth season premiered in April—actually works because it gives both them and Martin the chance to express themselves more creatively and create different versions of things.
"What makes the books so great is that George doesn't make meticulous blueprints for every beat of this story and then fill in the blanks dutifully going from A to B to C, fleshing out an outline," Weiss said. "At a certain point, we realized we were going to outpace the books and we kind of chose to see it as a great thing on both sides—there's this amazing world George has created and now there are two different versions, and there's no reason we can see why you can't be thrilled and surprised and dismayed by both of these different versions of this world."
Game of Thrones season 6 premieres Sunday, April 24 at 9 p.m. on HBO.
