"Last year we went out to Santa Fe for a week to sit down with [Martin] and just talk through where things are going, because we don't know if we are going to catch up and where exactly that would be," Benioff says in the April issue of
Vanity Fair. "If you know the ending, then you can lay the groundwork for it. And so we want to know how everything ends. We want to be able to set things up. So we just sat down with him and literally went through every character."
That's right. The trio had a spoiler-filled summit in Martin's Southwestern abode. Still writing book six,
The Winds of Winter, Martin noted that not all of the pieces of the puzzle are in place. "I can give them the broad strokes of what I intend to write, but the details aren't there yet," he tells
Vanity Fair. "I'm hopeful that I cannot let them catch up with me."
