HBO Making A Song of Ice and Fire
January 17th, 2007
This will come as great news to any fan of George R. R. Martin’s heptalogy-to-be, “A Song of Ice and Fire”.
The series will begin with the 1996 first book, “A Game of Thrones,” and the intention is for each novel (they average 1,000 pages each) to fuel a season’s worth of episodes.
This is a series that lends itself to TV more than most in its genre, since much of it is driven by George Martin’s own passion for the history of the middle ages - authentic battles, knights, jousting tournaments, castles, etc. Keeping the dragons and pookas to a minimum is advisable, since they so often end up looking cheesy. The books are so steeped in cruelty that it will take a courageous director to maintain the spirit - I’m glad its HBO at the reins.
Other fantasy epics that I would like to see coming to our screens:
- Tad Williams: Memory, Sorrow, Thorn
- Stephen R. Donaldson: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
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Filming that series would take truly herculean amounts of courage.
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