Since George R.R. Martin's Winds of Winter hasn't been released yet, it's safe to assume that the sixth season of Game of Thrones will spoil events that haven't happened in the books yet, but during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss address the issue of the show passing Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books and calm worand calm worries about possible spoilers.
"People are talking about whether the books are going to be spoiled – and it's really not true," Benioff told EW. "So much of what we're doing diverges from the books at this point. And while there are certain key elements that will be the same, we're not going to talk so much about that – and I don't think George [R.R. Martin] is either."
Benioff said that readers of the novels will be "very surprised" reading Martin's books that haven't been published yet. Two more books are expected to be released - Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring. The showrunners said that they are "quite divergent in so many respects for the remainder of the show."
D.B. Weiss also talked about it: "At a certain point, we realized we were going to outpace the books and we kind of choose to see it as a great thing on both sides – there's this amazing world George has created and now there are two different versions, and there's no reason we can see why you can't be thrilled and surprised and dismayed by both of these different versions of this world."
I'm not exactly sure if that's good news for the fans of the books. While we don't want the show to spoil events that the books haven't covered yet, we don't want the show to lose sight of Martin's vision.
Game of Thrones Season 6 will premiere on April 24.
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