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EXCLUSIVE: George R.R. Martin, on whose fantasy book series HBO‘s hit drama Game Of Thrones is based, has signed a two-year overall deal with the pay cable network. Under the pact, Martin will continue as co-executive producer on Game Of Thrones, whose Season 3 premieres March 31. Additionally, he will develop and produce new series projects for the network. Attached to Martin’s upcoming HBO development is his long-time representative, manager Vince Gerardis. In addition to co-executive producing Game Of Thrones, Martin has written multiple episodes of the fantasy series. His TV writing credits also include The Twilight Zone and the original Beauty And The Beast. He is with WME.
Game Of Thrones quickly established itself as HBO’s next flagship series, combining ratings and critical success. Its most recent episode, the second-season finale in June, drew a series-high 4.2 million viewers in its premiere airing. For Season 2, GOT averaged gross audience of more than 10.4 million viewers per episode across various platforms.
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You should be writing those two last fucking books, not developing new series.
AMEN.
Exactly.
Agreed. Don’t want a Robert Jordan reboot where the author dies before the series ended – but at least Jordan had a plan and had already identified an author to complete the series prior to his demise.
*sigh* get your facts straight. While he had many, many, MANY notes, James Oliver Rigney didn’t pick Brandon Sanderson. Harriet did, when Rigney was already in the ground.
He actually worked with him prior to death. *sigh* get YOUR facts straight dbag
Brandon Sanderson never met or spoke to Robert Jordan before Jordan’s death. Sanderson apparently was once in the same room as him at a convention, but was too nervous to approach him.
Harriet was impressed by Sanderson’s website eulogy for Jordan after Jordan’s death, and was sent a copy of the first MISTBORN book a few weeks later. She liked it, spoke to Sanderson and signed him up.
As a writer myself, to jump right into the next book in a series isn’t a smart thing to do. Your brain needs a mental break. Let the guy have some fun. He has (I’m assuming) given you plenty to enjoy over the years.
seriously. get ‘er done.
Ditto.
He’s going to die before he finishes those books. Mark my words. He will die, and HBO will try to finish the story without him.
Wow, Harry Knowles got old!
Agreed!!
What about his previous works? I would love to take a hand at adapting a few of those.
Here’s an overall deal that’s actually well deserved.
I hope they can make something work with Wildcards.
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I second Wild Cards! I think that HBO would even be the *only* channel (or studio) that would have the stomach to adapt the monumentally disturbing tenth book, “Double Solitaire.” Not to mention anything having to do with Fortunato.
I would hope that they’d never get to the current pod of books in series that are centered around reality show celebs and the Middle East. With so little interaction with any of the major *heroic* characters from the first fifteen books aside from Captain Trips (as one of the main villains) and periodic cameos from Peregrine, the newer novels have lost the epic, multigenerational sprawl that made the series great and thus, any sense of stakes has gone out the window. But it’s not as if this shared-universe anthology is spearheaded by Tim Kring, either — and just those first fifteen books provide more than enough material to take it through 7 or 10 seasons.
SyFy have already optioned WILD CARDS. HBO would need to work with them or buy the rights. Normally that would be out of the question, but HBO certainly like to do things out of the ordinary.
Who knew, Harry Knowles got old and is now writing GAME OF THRONES.
YES!!! Please! It shouldnt take a decade to write a book!!
“It shouldnt take a decade to write a book!!”
It can.
It has.
It will again.
Oh for fuck’s sake, George – just cease with all this extraneous rubbish and finish the books. You produced two sub-standard works in eleven years, and written to nothing in the last two, other than your mandatory one GOT episode per season (hardly multiple episodes). No one cares about your side projects, or ever will. Just finish the books … or hand them over to someone who will.
Really?
From one Rob to another:
Dude, unclench. Martin reportedly has outlines for the rest of the series so that it can be finished off if something happens to him before he can do it himself. Other than that, it’ll take however long it’ll take. It’s bloody likely that the GoT novels would be substantially different if he weren’t also pursuing his other novels, book series and short story collections because he’d be a totally different person, so I think that you should be happy with what you get when you get it.
Actually, he gave plot points so that HBO could finish the TV series, but he does not want another author to finish the series in the event that he dies: “Martin hopes that, after he surmounts the particularly thorny problems of “A Dance with Dragons,” the final two books will come much faster. Some detractors insist that he’ll never complete the series, and they like to kibbitz about who ought to fill in for him if he pulls a Jordan. Martin, however, has indicated that he will not permit another writer to finish “A Song of Ice and Fire.” The story begins and ends with him.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/11/110411fa_fact_miller#ixzz2K9Ljiqf2
I would much prefer to have all 7 books then have to watch the last book or two on HBO. The TV isn’t quite the same and I’m not sure how far it will deviate. While I won’t go as far as to insult GRRM, I really hope he can get the last two books in his life time.
Wow. What an entitled, rude jackass you are. Who the hell are you to make demands and threats to an author? It’s his series, he’ll finish them when he’s ready. Idiot.
I am not an avid reader of anything but once I started the Thrones series, I could not put it down. I’ve tried writing.,it’s very hard. I am hopefull that George will tie up all the loose ends presented in the last book, but I think he should do it, not someone else,
Amen, Rob. Totally agree with you…so aggravating watching him let readers twist in the wind while he completes myriad other books no one cares about instead of finishing the series that made him.
Another entitled jerk. Writing isn’t like putting up drywall – each writer works at their own pace and some stories are harder to finish than others. And to be angry with him for finishing other projects which “no one cares about”…should he just pump out sequel after sequel to these books, every 18 months, until he drives the series into the ground? Are you a fan of his books or just some armchair producer trying to sound like an insider?
George needs to step it up. Being into the genre, I’ve followed many authors producing serial books over time. Most are marginal of general interest. He is not.
No, George has repeatedly said the series will die with him. He doesn’t want anyone else touching his baby. As for being happy with what you get? What about going to a restaurant and wanting a well done steak only to get served an undercooked, thin slab of gristly meat. Should that person just be happy and eat it?
Of course not. Now, literary tastes are subjective, so everyone has a right to complain just as much as you have the right to ignore the fact it took 11 years for a man to write two mediocre books while continuously promoting a shit ton of other stuff on his blog, selling off old and waterlogged calendars and other shit, ban people who dare to ask about the status of the books etc. etc.
Of course, they’re his books, he can do what he wants. But the man is a god damn professional author and should act like one. It’s obvious he doesn’t give a shit about the series anymore, so he should stop lying to people. Just take a critical look at all the shit he spews out on his blog before blindly defending the man.
I song of Ice and Fire series:
“What Is Dead May Never Die!”
The King is dead! – Long live the American R.R. Wild Cards.
The fans loath Sanderson and his 3 wot books.
No, they really do not. The last 3 WoT books have been critically better-received than any of Jordan’s last four novels (if not more). There’s been some criticism of Tor Books’s policies (no ebooks on release, a very rushed writing timescale) which have led to continuity errors, but overall most WoT fans are highly satisfied with Sanderson’s work. The reviews and the still-increasing sales per book bear that out.
Just finish the damn books please!!!
Bad news folks, Martin will never finish writing the series so just enjoy his other offerings and enjoy the places your imagination takes the characters because his last book in the series is going to have to be broken up into two, then two more, and so on until either he dies or no one gives a shit anymore.
Obviously if you want the books that bad you don’t appreciate them. How can another writer finish his books. The beauty is how he keeps us hanging on. We, as fan, devour his books and leaves us wanting more! You really think another writer will fill GRRM’s shoes? Or keyboard? D-bags o plenty commenting on this.
Speak for yourself. I got millions of people who will wait patiently. You cannot rush a masterpiece.
William Gass took nearly 30 yesrs to write “The Tunnel”
I’ll do with Song of Ice and Fire what I finally had to do with WoT. Stop reading until the final book is published and pick it up from the beginning and read through it all in one go. The wait is killing me and there’s plenty else out there to read instead.