Drainy
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Cheers for the wall of text, much appreciated. None of that suggests that they're hacks.
They put faith in a director and ultimately had to allow adjustment to the script (or fly blind) due to time contraints. So fecking what? Every bloody film or tv drama that is an adapation from a novel has changes made either by design or forced circumstances. Go watch some docs on the film making process from start to finish.
The only thing that matters is whether the key elements of the plot (and hopefully the tone) remain. Nothing in that text suggests they didn't hit those boxes during the filming of that episode.
You're welcome. We're in a book thread, you'd expect people in here to be ok with reading.
They insisted on using dozens of live horses, which the director had to advise them that they couldn't do what was scripted with them because of animal welfare, and general practicalities.
‘Originally, we were going to have a lot of horses, like seven horses deep and they were going to charge the horses… and then actually surround the allied troops and crush them with the horses,’ said Sapochnik. ‘The trouble is, if you run horses at people, they don’t like it.’ He continued: ‘The first time they’re alright, the second time they’re like: “I don’t really want to run at these people”, the third time the horses think: “I’m not going”.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/28/game-...ts-slightly-more-awesome-6034005/?ito=cbshare
They then gave the director 2 and a half weeks less than he needed to get it done. It's widely believed that they had to change major plot points in the outcome of the battle. It's negligent for a show of this scope and budget to go off script when the director was warning of the issues.