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[Rappy]

[Lannister]

Can't wait for this.

Easily the best fantasy books out there at the moment and being on HBO guarantees they won't be watered down (the pilot script is out-and-about on the net if you've read the books and worry).

BBC is co-producing, as they did with Rome.

[mattmatik]

Lena Headey and Peter Dinklage. Sweet!

Never read the books but maybe I will now.

[Sethos]

A Danish actor, woot!

[+jelli]

I have had these books for a year or two and each time I try and read them I lose interest. Might give it another go once I have finished the David Gemmell book I am reading. Looking forward to it though.

[Lannister]

Teaser Trailer (20 seconds) is up on the newly launched Games of Thrones site at HBO now.

HERE

[Rappy]

[Sparrowmonk]

I haven't read the books myself, I've been planning to, but I never get around to it.

[Rappy]

[Sparrowmonk]

Rappy, on 14 June 2010 - 16:14, said:

Hopefully this time, he won't want the ring.

[thefonz]

George RR Martin is by far my favourite writer - yes even moreso than Tolstoy and Tolkien. I remember I devoured all the Song of Ice and Fire books over 6 months and have been waiting eagerly for A Dance With Dragons (due for release circa 2100.

Then I read them again - then I read his short stories including The Hedge Knight, and then I read his two volumes of short stories - yes even Sandkings which left me with a rather nasty nightmare.

Everything I see from this attempt by HBO fills me with excitement and I am very very happy with the cast. Heck Sean Bean looks the part and I'm looking forward to seeing how the icy and brutal Ned Stark is blended with Bean's typically gung-ho acting.

Does anyone know how many episodes we get with this and each book/season? Presumably they're an hour long and given how much is in GoT that must be a good 24 episodes?

[Rappy]

thefonz, on 14 June 2010 - 18:34, said:

Does anyone know how many episodes we get with this and each book/season? Presumably they're an hour long and given how much is in GoT that must be a good 24 episodes?

around 13 HBO don't do more then 13 a season.

[Sparrowmonk]

Rappy, on 14 June 2010 - 18:54, said:

around 13 HBO don't do more then 13 a season.

Which is almost like how they do it in Britain, correct?

[Rappy]

Sparrowmonk, on 14 June 2010 - 19:59, said:

Which is almost like how they do it in Britain, correct?

any primetime tv show is either played out over 5 nights or 5/6 episodes a series...we suck for series length

[Lannister]

thefonz, on 14 June 2010 - 18:34, said:

George RR Martin is by far my favourite writer - yes even moreso than Tolstoy and Tolkien. I remember I devoured all the Song of Ice and Fire books over 6 months and have been waiting eagerly for A Dance With Dragons (due for release circa 2100.

Then I read them again - then I read his short stories including The Hedge Knight, and then I read his two volumes of short stories - yes even Sandkings which left me with a rather nasty nightmare.

Everything I see from this attempt by HBO fills me with excitement and I am very very happy with the cast. Heck Sean Bean looks the part and I'm looking forward to seeing how the icy and brutal Ned Stark is blended with Bean's typically gung-ho acting.

Does anyone know how many episodes we get with this and each book/season? Presumably they're an hour long and given how much is in GoT that must be a good 24 episodes?

First Season is going to be 10 one-hour Episodes long. GRRM has just recently handed in the first draft of the episode he is writing, which is nhumber 8.



BTW, the casting topic in the OP is out of date now, as two main cast memebers have been replaced.

New Daenerys

New Catelyn