‘Game of Thrones’ Director Reveals Alternate Ending & We Wish It Ended THIS Way!

It’s been a month since the Game of Thrones finale released and till now I have made a long mental list of possible alternate endings to make myself happy and get over the disappointment that was the final season. I could hear my soul screaming “Are you kidding me?” when they made Bran the king. I mean, I had never experienced a bigger facepalm moment.

Season 8 wasn’t “classic GOT” – ruthless murders, completely unpredictable turn of events, and most importantly – major characters dying out of nowhere! Besides the scenes with Arya killing the Night King and Viserion dying, I don’t think I had a goosebumps moment.

However, it turns out that director Miguel Sapochnik, who directed all the kickass episodes like Hardhome, Battle of the Bastards, The Long Night, and The Bells, had other plans for this season, which was, in fact, classic GOT-like but was turned down by the producers.

https://twitter.com/MigSapochnik/status/1132750958104944642

According to sources, Miguel wanted the Battle of Winterfell to be catastrophic, giving the fans exactly what they expected. He wanted a large number of deaths but was “visually policed” by the showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss while trying to direct.

Miguel tried convincing the showrunners to shock the hell out of the audience, proper Game of Thrones manner. Here’s what he told sources:

“I wanted to kill everyone. I wanted to kill Jorah in the horse charge at the beginning. I wanted it to be ruthless, so in the first 10 minutes you could say all bets are off, anyone could die. But David and Dan didn’t want to. There was a lot of back-and-forth on that. There comes a point when they dig in and you just don’t want to be there.”

He also revealed similar instances in the past seasons where he was shut down by the producers. In Season 5, he shot a scene between Cersei and Tommen through some “prison-style bars” to give audiences the idea that the “young, dewey-eyed king” was trapped by power and would have been happier joining a monastery. In addition to that, he had planned on shooting Maester Aemon’s death scene a bit differently. Benioff and Weiss weren’t impressed with this.

“(Benioff and Weiss] said (it was) ‘so self-conscious and we hate it’. I was visually policed for the first three months of my shoot and it made the creation of Hardhome really difficult because I pissed them off”, he said.

God, we so wish the producers had listened to Miguel! Could you imagine the magnificent shock we would have got if Jorah perished within the first 10 minutes?

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