‘Game of Thrones’ author George R. R. Martin slams TV and film adaptations, ‘They never make it better’

George R. R. Martin, a revered author, recently took to his own blog page to voice his opinion regarding TV and film adaptations in Hollywood.

“Very little has changed since then. If anything, things have gotten worse. Everywhere you look, there are more screenwriters and producers eager to take great stories and ‘make them their own.’ It does not seem to matter whether the source material was written by Stan Lee, Charles Dickens, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, Jane Austen, or… well, anyone,” Martin wrote on his blog.

“No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and ‘improve’ on it,” Martin added. “‘The book is the book, the film is the film,’ they will tell you, as if they were saying something profound.  Then they make the story their own. They never make it better, though. Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse,” he continued.

However, Martin did acknowledge that sometimes an adaptation turns out to be good. He mentioned the latest series, ‘Shogun’ starring Hiroyuki Sanada.