Johnny Capps and Julian Murphy SFX article on Merlin and Game of Thrones
In an interview from San Diego Comic Con, Johnny Capps and Julian Murphy talk about how the similarities between Merlin and Game of Thrones are coincidental, and the limitations of Merlin due to its budget. An excerpt:
[Slight scene spoiler - click to read]“I hadn’t watched Game Of Thrones!” revealed Capps. “Then I noticed they had snow and I thought everyone’s going to say ‘you did snow because Game Of Thrones did snow!’ But there’s no such thing as an original idea, is there?”
Murphy also highlights distinctions between the production capabilities of the shows. “If you look at Game Of Thrones… it’s nearly four times our budget!” he told us. “Does it make a difference? Yes, a bit; we probably reject three or four stories a series on the grounds that we simply couldn’t do it. We have to work within the world that we have. We have a budget. Our CGI capacity gets bigger which helps, so every year we put more on the screen I think. But practically there’s a line in the sand that we can’t go to.”
The full article mentions a previously revealed character at the end; read it on SFX here.
[Slight scene spoiler - click to read]“I hadn’t watched Game Of Thrones!” revealed Capps. “Then I noticed they had snow and I thought everyone’s going to say ‘you did snow because Game Of Thrones did snow!’ But there’s no such thing as an original idea, is there?”
Murphy also highlights distinctions between the production capabilities of the shows. “If you look at Game Of Thrones… it’s nearly four times our budget!” he told us. “Does it make a difference? Yes, a bit; we probably reject three or four stories a series on the grounds that we simply couldn’t do it. We have to work within the world that we have. We have a budget. Our CGI capacity gets bigger which helps, so every year we put more on the screen I think. But practically there’s a line in the sand that we can’t go to.”
The full article mentions a previously revealed character at the end; read it on SFX here.