‘I really wanted to get away from horses,” says David Benioff. It has been five years since the end of Game of Thrones, the world-conquering show that put Benioff and his joint showrunner DB Weiss on the iron throne of small-screen entertainment. Anticipation has been high as to what they’d do next – especially after their $200m (£157m) leap from HBO to Netflix in 2019. The answer turns out to be a complete U-turn: away from high fantasy and into futuristic sci-fi. So it’s goodbye to swords, sex and feudal scheming, hello to interstellar travel and quantum entanglement.
They really mean it about the horses. “Horses are dangerous if you don’t know what to do with them. They weigh, like, 1,200lbs, and they run really, really fast,” says Weiss over video call from an unusually rainy Los Angeles.
