David Benioff and D. B. Weiss is not going to be attending SDCC.
Jeff Kravitz
Sport of Thrones is probably the most nominated sequence at this yr’s Emmys, with 32 nominations, but it surely’s additionally probably the most controversial, with over 1,000,000 followers signing a petition to redo the eighth and remaining season.
Now writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have pulled out of this yr’s San Diego Comedian-Con, two days earlier than the present’s panel.
The official Sport of Thrones Twitter account tweeted Wednesday a change to the Sport of Thrones authentic panel lineup. Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), Jacob Anderson (Gray Worm — the actor/musician additionally goes by the alias Raleigh Ritchie), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark), John Bradley (Samwell Tarly), Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth) and Conleth Hill (Lord Varys) are all scheduled to seem within the prestigious Corridor H.
However no Benioff or Weiss.
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Benioff and Weiss have averted followers up to now. Whereas the ultimate season aired from April via Could, they consciously averted social media. “We’ll be in an undisclosed location, turning off our telephones and opening varied bottles,” Weiss informed Leisure Weekly in early April.
“In some unspecified time in the future, if and when it is protected to come back out once more, any individual like [HBO’s GoT publicist Mara Mikialian] will give us a breakdown of what was on the market with out us having to really expertise it.”
“I plan to be very drunk and really removed from the web,” Benioff stated.
SDCC was set to be the showrunners’ first public look or interview because the Sport of Thrones finale aired in Could. HBO claimed the writers pulled out of the conference resulting from manufacturing and scheduling conflicts. The pair’s subsequent gig is writing a brand new sequence of Star Wars movies for Disney.
Regardless of the criticism, Benioff and Weiss have been nominated for a writing Emmy for the final episode of the sequence, The Iron Throne.
The reactions to Benioff and Weiss’ absence from SDCC are hitting Twitter, a lot of it aimed on the pair dodging anger from followers.
The Sport of Thrones panel takes place Friday at 5:30 p.m. PT in Corridor H at San Diego Comedian-Con.
