Emmy-winning 'Game of Thrones' veteran Alan Taylor will join the team for season two.
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Sources say Sapochnik is exiting the show after pouring an exhausting three years of effort into the Game of Thrones prequel.
Sapochnik worked for months helping develop Dragon with his friend Condal before coming on board. Sapochnik had been very reluctant to officially join the project, a stance that perhaps foreshadowed his current exit. “Miguel said, “I’m never doing Thrones again,” Condal recalled.
“I went through a lot of vacillating,” Sapochnik admitted. “Ryan and I had a longstanding relationship and we work well together and we really like each other — that was half the battle. As we got deeper into the discussions, I realized I had to shyt or get off the pot.”
Sapochnik eventually decided to sign on while he was attending — of all things – a Game of Thrones Experience concert in Los Angeles with writer and fellow Thrones veteran Bryan Cogman. “There were 17,000 people going crazy for this show and I didn’t realize how passionate people still were about it,” Saophnchik says. “[My wife] turned to me and said, ‘We’re fukking idiots. How can we not do this?'”
Reading this, this makes sense. He's burnt out, and wants to do other things.