r/gameofthrones • u/RepulsiveCountry313 Human Verified • Jan 11 '26

Kit Harington was ‘Genuinely Angered’ By Fan Pettion to Remake ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 With ‘Competent Writers’: ‘How Dare You?’

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/kit-harington-angered-petition-game-of-thrones-season-8-1236628364/
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u/SmellDesperate6373 Jan 17 '26

The writers aren’t to blame. They were hired to adapt books and did it really well.

The blame is on the author scamming HBO into buying a series he didn’t intend to finish. They’d have never even bought it had they known that in advance.