Game of Thrones Might "Need" a Movie to Finish the Series

[iseko]

What is Brandon Sanderson doing these days, perhaps we could hire to hand around GRRM taking notes and talking about finishing an overly ambitious saga after it's author died, and then wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.

I have a friend who refuses to read a Song of Ice and Fire or watch the TV show because of Wheel of Time, as he says GRGRM is in worse physical shape than Robert Jordan was and is not the most productive writer.

No!

Brandon Sanderson needs to get back to his basement cell and get cracking on The Stormlight Archives' next book. Even allowing him the time to fly to Martin is too much time wasted from my precious....

LOL I think we have a couple of years to wait the 2nd was just published.

Really? Hot damn! To the bookmobile! *nanananananana BOOK STORE*

OT: terrible idea. terrible terrible terrible Idea. 3/4 of the genuinely good book series get fucked over because they make movies of them. Game of thrones is so successful because they really capture the story that is told in the books. Not djust dze pretty dragons. I'd rather have the dragons be made of paper maché and diarrhea based paint with welding torches as epic blasts of fire. If that's what keeps it going as a TV show where they can really get into the story. Special effects are not more important then story! In conclusion: terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible fucking idea.

 

[Zac Jovanovic]

What is Brandon Sanderson doing these days, perhaps we could hire to hand around GRRM taking notes and talking about finishing an overly ambitious saga after it's author died, and then wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.

I have a friend who refuses to read a Song of Ice and Fire or watch the TV show because of Wheel of Time, as he says GRGRM is in worse physical shape than Robert Jordan was and is not the most productive writer.

Sanderson is great and all, but I don't think he'd do a good job with this. Maybe Abercrombie, maybe.
But Martin said he doesn't want anyone finishing his shit if he dies...

Also I'm pretty sure the show is safe to watch, I seem to remember producers saying Martin told them how to end it if the books don't get finished.

 

[Tumedus]

HBO doesn't really have a good track record with their series' getting their movies, namely Dead Wood and Rome (although I think the latter is in "pre-production"). Honestly what I'm more curious about is whether or not Martin is going to finish the books in time to catch up to the TV series. I understand why A Storm of Swords needed to be broken into two seasons, it was a pretty massive book, but I suspect they can fit much of the 4th book into one season, so already in 2 years we should already at the 5th book in the TV show. I suspect A Dance with Dragons will be broken into two seasons as well, it was a pretty decent sized book and there's a lot of places for filler.

It actually might be much shorter than that. A year ago they were talking about 8 seasons, with the idea being that Storm of Swords is 2 seasons. Books 4 and 5 combined for 2 seasons (the books run almost concurrently) and 1 season for both of the unwritten books.

Now, though, there is talk of possibly wrapping up in 7 seasons. Apparently this upcoming season includes some of book 4 in it, so its possible they are going to condense books 4 and 5 into a single season and then hope for book 6 and 7 to be a season each, with room for 1 more season if they really need it.

The thing is, book 6 and 7 are both expected to be longer than Storm of Swords so I don't see how, even if they aren't quite as dense as that book, you can get them done in just 2 seasons. So maybe they are just expecting to cut it short because they (as well as most reasonable people) don't think Martin will be able to finish the books in time.

 

[octafish]

What is Brandon Sanderson doing these days, perhaps we could hire to hand around GRRM taking notes and talking about finishing an overly ambitious saga after it's author died, and then wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.

I have a friend who refuses to read a Song of Ice and Fire or watch the TV show because of Wheel of Time, as he says GRGRM is in worse physical shape than Robert Jordan was and is not the most productive writer.

Sanderson is great and all, but I don't think he'd do a good job with this. Maybe Abercrombie, maybe.
But Martin said he doesn't want anyone finishing his shit if he dies...

Also I'm pretty sure the show is safe to watch, I seem to remember producers saying Martin told them how to end it if the books don't get finished.

Let me guess...Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. Sounds like Martin.

 

[Britishfan]

At the moment we're getting 10 x 48mins. Which gives us 8 hours per book or going forward 8 hours per half a book, and there's still not enough time to squeeze absolutely everything from the books onto the screen; how's a 2 hour film going to help that?

 

[Branindain]

What is Brandon Sanderson doing these days, perhaps we could hire to hand around GRRM taking notes and talking about finishing an overly ambitious saga after it's author died, and then wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.

I have a friend who refuses to read a Song of Ice and Fire or watch the TV show because of Wheel of Time, as he says GRGRM is in worse physical shape than Robert Jordan was and is not the most productive writer.

Why be turned off by that experience? Brandon Sanderson did a good job of finishing the Wheel of Time up. It was a stylistic change but at least he's not an obvious S&M fetishist like Jordan, and at least he actually wanted to get to the end rather than milk it endlessly. Granted, the writing of ASIF would be tougher to emulate though.

 

[Zac Jovanovic]

Let me guess...Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. Sounds like Martin.

Well it certainly won't be a happy ending But he promises it will be a satisfying one, think Mistborn or something similar.

 

[Lono Shrugged]

He does understand that the dragons are not real, right?

Like, they are on a computer, they are probably some form of .obj file if they are coming from zbrush to maya.

Anyway, not real George. They can be 10 times the size of earth or the size of a dormouse. zooop! just a scale slider. Might have a word with the visual effects guys on that.

 

[Zydrate]

All it would do is feel like a double length'd episode unless they went all-out with it.

That's the problem with converting to the Big Screen. If you keep up the same style people will just walk out thinking, "Uh, how was that any different...?"

 

[snappydog]

I don't think the series is gonna be 'finished' at any point to be honest, as people have said... It might well have to do what several anime series did when they caught up to the point the manga had reached and had to improvise an ending, but that's rarely well received. Basically, GRRM - there's no point thinking about whether the series is gonna need a movie when it ends unless you're gonna finish the book series that, y'know, the show is based on and therefore needs to be able to continue.

 

[Tiamat666]

Yeah, yeah, George.

Just finish the damned books already.

Pretty sure GRRM's just completely lost interest in actually writing the things, and even if we do see the sixth book in the next couple years, for some reason I just don't think he'll ever actually finish the series. I obviously hope I'm wrong, but at this point we may need to hope and pray the HBO series lasts until the finish so we can at least find out how things turn out.

Yeah... but actually, while I enjoyed both the books and the series immensely, I'm kinda worried that the series came too soon, and that at some point it will catch up to the books and start taking over the story. And at that point it might turn into something that it otherwise wouldn't have been. Like a long running series (money grab), victim of it's own success.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

"Even so, I'd hate to see its complexity compromised to fit into the confines of a two hour film. "
How about on non-HBO there's gonna be hardly any swearing, sex and (to a much lesser degree) gore allowed...

And of course it'd not be a two hour movie. At least 3, most likely 2 times 3 hours even...

 

[Atrocious Joystick]

Eh, I´m a little concerned he talked about stuff like 8 or 10 seasons to be honest. I can´t think of any show that has lasted for that long and not become a tragic parody of itself. There´s something to be said for quitting while you´re ahead. Or perhaps rather quitting when the story the show revolved around ends. Certain shows can afford faffing about a little due to their structure but Game of Thrones is definately not one of those shows.