Djawadi also evolved the themes with the characters, noting in a 2017 interview that Daenerys's theme ' plays on a couple of instruments on top of the Dothraki music. He mentioned that a challenge in scoring the series was its reliance on dialogue and its sprawling cast: on several occasions already-scored music had to be omitted so as not to get in the way of dialogue. The producers asked Djawadi to give the series its own distinctive musical identity by avoiding certain musical elements such as flutes or solo vocals previously used successfully by other major fantasy productions. Weiss as the replacement for Warbeck, and although Djawadi was reluctant as he had other commitments at that time, they managed to persuade him to accept the project. The music supervisor of Game of Thrones, Evyen Klean, first suggested Djawadi to showrunners David Benioff and D.
On February 2, 2011, only ten weeks prior to the show's premiere, it was reported that Warbeck had left the project and Ramin Djawadi had been commissioned to write the music instead. The soundtrack to Game of Thrones was originally to be composed by Stephen Warbeck.
