“The beauty of Game of Thrones is that Benioff and Weiss were huge fans of the books,” she says. TV writer Andrea Kail says that Nightflyers lacks any sort of creative vision, and that the show just seems to be trying to cash in on Martin’s name. “And it turned out that he had sold the rights as part of the contract for the 1987 feature film and he hadn’t even realized it.” “He says that he heard they were making this show and he was like, ‘How can they do that? I haven’t given them the rights,'” Kirtley says. Martin was barely involved with the show. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley had high hopes for Nightflyers, but was disappointed to learn that George R. “I felt like they watched a lot of science fiction movies and TV and said, ‘Oh, that would be cool, that would be cool, that would be cool.’ But it never really cohered into a solid narrative.” “To me it just felt like someone was unfamiliar with the tropes of science fiction,” he says. Science fiction author Matthew Kressel notes that Nightflyers never really moves beyond recycling familiar elements from better movies and TV shows.
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