Game Of Thrones' 'Battle Of Winterfell' Director Wanted To 'Kill Everyone'

The Game of Thrones series finale was a divisive one, that's for sure. While some viewers were happy with how everything drew to a close, others demanded more from the show, especially in the way of who perished in the final, decisive battle.


in case you felt like there could have been a lot more death and destructive coming out of that clash, you're not alone. Director Miguel Sapochnik, who directed the Battle of Winterfell episode ("The Long Night"), wanted a lot more characters to perish throughout the battle. In a recent podcast interview with IndieWire, he spilled the beans on how he would have preferred that things went.


"I wanted to kill everyone,” mentioned Sapochnik. "I wanted to kill Jorah in the horse charge at the starting. I was up for killing absolutely each person. I wanted it to be ruthless, so that in the initial 10 minutes, you mention, ‘All bets are off; anyone could die.’ And David [Benioff] and Dan [D. B. Weiss] didn’t aspire to. There was a lot of back-and-forth on that."


naturally, in the end, a number of of the things Sapochnik was interest in making happen did just be coming to fruition, especially in "The Bells," which he directed furthermore to "The Long Night." So if he didn't get to do everything he wanted to in the major battle episode, some of his visions lived on in that episode instead.


"I think a key thing is, like, it’s not my show, right? I didn’t come up with the show and make it," he mentioned. "I am a hired director to go and do that. They have let me in and let me be involved, and I’ve really loved doing that. However final cut isn't mine. Final cut is theirs; it’s their choice."


Sapochnik didn't decorative on who he would have killed off or who he would have spared, yet it definitely would have been interesting to be able to see his version of the episode compared to the one that aired. However Game of Thrones is currently over for good, like it or not, so the one that aired is canon, obviously. We'll have to be okay with that, whether we like it or not. Still, it could be interesting listen to what sort of things Sapochnik had in store for his cut of the episode.


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