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[macel]

early Martin is one of my favorite authors, lately his books have gone down the path Robert Jordan mastered. The books are getting longer and longer and getting filled with insignificant details while the story is limping along almost forgotten.

Really looking forward to this series

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macel, on 15 June 2010 - 00:42, said:

early Martin is one of my favorite authors, lately his books have gone down the path Robert Jordan mastered. The books are getting longer and longer and getting filled with insignificant details while the story is limping along almost forgotten.

It was originally intended to be a trilogy, but GRRM has always been pretty honest about how he's been having trouble fitting what he's wanted to write into his books without making them huge doorstops. The latest book, Feast for Crows, was originally supposed to have a long prologue chapter that spanned around 10-ish years of time, and he spent over a year writing it that way before admitting it wouldn't work out. So he scrapped that and decided to just tell the story instead in two books: Feast for Crows, and the upcoming A Dance With Dragons (he's not far from finishing it).

Basically it was originally going to be a 3 books series, then 5, and now 7.

Although I've not read WoT, the overwhelming impression I get from people who have is that what GRRM is doing by expanding his books, is not nearly the same as Jordan did: essentially milking his own franchise. But like I say, not read them myself.

On the bright side, book 5 should be finished by the time the series airs next year, and although books 4 and 5 will probably be combined in to one season (if the show gets that far) as they covor the same timeline, it still gives him plenty of time to finish the other 2 books before the seriers catches up to him (if it goes more than one season that is).

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Just updated first post with cast

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HBO confirmed: "Game of Thrones" will indeed premiere next spring.

One executive at the TCA press tour said that he thought it will premiere March 3rd, though another corrected him and just said "spring."

"It's a genre we've approached somewhat cautiously," said Michael Lombardo, HBO's programming president. "We have two writers ... who are so smart and so talented. Neither of us are particularly fans of the genre. It was such enormously compelling reading. It wasn't the genre we responded to it was the storytelling."

"It's really about power," added Richard Plepler, co-president. "And that's a theme which has resonated throughout history. You'll forget where you are very quickly and will find yourself immersed in the storytelling."

Both executives noted that the show's intense online fandom is helpful for growing an audience ... yet also adds pressure.

"It's a ravenous audience," Lombardo said. "You have to get it right. Those fans are waiting. They've set a bar that, if you do it, you have to do it right.

[HawkMan]

I'm sure they'll do this the same quality justice and respect for the books as was done to the Sword of Truth series....

Never hold your breath for quality Fantasy series, they producers only want to make cheap low budget Xena copies, and then grab in a few more viewers and save a few bucks on writing by "basing" it on some existing series.

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This will be weird, Sean Bean normally dies quite early on in films or series (Lord of the Rings, Equilibrium)

Be shocking to see him alive for a long time lol

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I'd have more faith if it were Showtime, but I'll wait to judge until I see it.

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HawkMan, on 11 August 2010 - 07:51, said:

I'm sure they'll do this the same quality justice and respect for the books as was done to the Sword of Truth series....

Never hold your breath for quality Fantasy series, they producers only want to make cheap low budget Xena copies, and then grab in a few more viewers and save a few bucks on writing by "basing" it on some existing series.

The difference here is that GRRM is involved in the series (both as producer and writer) and prior to writing the books had a history producing and writing for TV.

Also, Sword of Truth didn't deserve either Justice or respect. Terrible books by an arse of a writer...

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Lannister, on 18 September 2010 - 10:45, said:

Also, Sword of Truth didn't deserve either Justice or respect. Terrible books by an arse of a writer...

Well at least you got a personal opinion

Neither of them is any Wheel of Time anyway.

Nor there's something that deserves a GOOD tv adaption. with lots and lots of money in the effects budget.

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HawkMan, on 18 September 2010 - 11:07, said:

Well at least you got a personal opinion

Indeed.

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Neither of them is any Wheel of Time anyway.

Nor there's something that deserves a GOOD tv adaption. with lots and lots of money in the effects budget.

Just my personal opinion again, but WoT isn't a patch on GRRM's Ice & Fire series either. He strung it out far too long with far too much filler, and ended up dying before he could even finish it.

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Official HBO "making of" blog for the show. lots of great info on the production

HERE

Also we have the second teaser above, but here's a longer "behind the scenes" video.

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HQ's

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