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(THR) Game of Thrones Jon Snow Sequel Series in Development at HBO
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George is working very closely with HBO on all these new projects so I guess if it's real he's OK with it.
But we'll have to wait until he comments on it
This will probably be the worst GoT show but will have the biggest audience due to Kit Harrington's star power, and because nerds want to know what happens "next" more than they want to know about some old Targarian drama where we already know too much about the "canon".
The only show that makes sense to me is a Fall of Valyria show. We know nothing about this period so it's free for someone to write an interesting story. Of course they aren't making this show.
The only show that makes sense to me is a Fall of Valyria show. We know nothing about this period so it's free for someone to write an interesting story. Of course they aren't making this show.
I mean, they established that the north wasn't always as desolate and cold back in season 6 with the flashbacks via Bran.
This is dismissive of HOT D to an exent that's a bit absurd. Why adapt any written story to film, like the first five ASOIAF novels (though I maintain that Feast/Dance weren't exactly adapted), when some of the audience (fans) already know the story?
A new story, hopefully by better writers, that eventually gets him on a new Iron Throne... with the help of a dragon, of course.
GRRM has himself indicated in the past that the weather patterns in Westeros (the super-long seasons) may be magical in nature, so that defeating the others restored the normal weather cycle isn't some out of nowhere idea.
It was all a mad dash to the finish line and I don't understand why. Daenerys' big victory speech and the immediate aftermath of that had my imagination running wild. There was very obviously another season at the very least, of her running King's Landing, and everyone around her conspiring to remove her.
The extended seasons yes, but the north is cold because it's the north of a spherical world more or less shaped like ours. If it ends up thawing near the north pole in the books I don't imagine it would be framed as a great thing, especially since Martin has likened the treatment of the Others issue by Westeros at large to ignoring the threat of climate change on Earth.
The North isn't near the North Pole, it has regular summers with bountiful agriculture, etc. There's no reason that the lands beyond the Wall would be different.
Untrue. HBO greenlit the Long Night prequel series without George's involvement, and hired a showrunner who wasn't even familiar with the books. He was pretty pissed about it, and predictably the project crashed and burned.
Unless you meant the series that came about after that one. Either way, George hasn't commented at all on this Jon Snow series, despite talking about other nascent projects, so... I really don't think he's involved. I mean, he can't be expected to help much with a sequel series when D&D already massacred the last few seasons, corrupting the foundation it'd be building on.
I honestly don't even see what the premise could be of this show, assuming Jon stays north of the wall. It'd be boring as hell. No more White Walkers, no more Children, no more giants, wildlings seriously thinned out / migrated south.
https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/vg3lot/spoiler_extended_on_her_podcast_journalist_joanna/
Pop culture journalist claims in a podcast that he's "all in" for this show. If true, I wonder about what the story would be. I wouldn't think that GRRM would support something hacky that disturbs the "ending" of ASOIAF to the extent that some people are suggesting. I would guess (maybe I just hope) that it's a more contained, lower stakes epilogue.
Maybe inspiration struck and now he has more books planned for after he finishes A Dream of Spring
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But Benioff and Weiss (I refuse to say D&D, that's already taken, goddammit) were also super fans. I don't think that's necessarily an automatic mark of quality, nor is a lack of fandom a mark of lower quality. In fact someone coming in from the outside could potentially make something very interesting, in the same way Nicholas Meyer couldn't have given less of a shit about Star Trek yet still made Wrath of Khan.
I also don't think it should really matter whether or not the original author is involved, especially one in this case who can't seem to even finish his own story. And an author like Tolkien wasn't exactly personally involved in the LOTR trilogy and it still turned out pretty good.
I'm a bit more optimistic about House of the Dragon since they already have everything they need from GRRM. This though... hard to get excited. I just want a show that is S1-4 of Game of Thrones again.
He's all in on making that paperrrrrrrrr, and finding excuses not to write.
Dany shows up for revenge after being resurrected by the red priests of Valyria where Drogo took her. The mad queen is even madder after he killed her and Drogo starts eating wildlings.
No Time to Die salvaged a lot of mediocre elements from Spectre, for a counter-example.
So...basically a Season 9 of GoT?
Eh, fuck it, I'll watch; it's unlikely to be worse than S8. Especially if Benioff and Weiss aren't involved.
Eh, fuck it, I'll watch; it's unlikely to be worse than S8. Especially if Benioff and Weiss aren't involved.
if he's travelling north they can just make shit up at that point and invent literally anything.
I guess. Thought it would be underwhelming after the menace that was the Night King, who then got jobbed.
Yea the issue is that I have no faith that they'd be able to create a new, compelling threat
He could fight the grumpkin king.
Or maybe the night king Arya killed was a grumpkin and Jon has to kill the real one.
Maybe he could take on Lord Snark?
Or maybe the night king Arya killed was a grumpkin and Jon has to kill the real one.
Maybe he could take on Lord Snark?
The fact that we have some kind of epilogue at all is kind of fascinating tbh, like he wants more part on what would be the "true ending" of the story (as I don't think he'll finish the books), because he either didn't like the S8 ending or that he understands that most people didn't like it and wants to "correct' that
Ok, if that journalist isn't full of shit, and this has GRRM's blessing (or it was even his idea to retcon the show ending somehow with an epilogue)...
...then I'm still disappointed he's not just letting HBO do their thing to concentrate on writing... but also intrigued
...then I'm still disappointed he's not just letting HBO do their thing to concentrate on writing... but also intrigued
The dead speak
Somehow the Night King returned
I would not mind if it's just Jon Snow doing human/zombie hybrid things and just day-to-day stuff.
I don't understand why GRRM doesn't just hire ghost writers to finish the books and focuses all his attention on television. Literally everyone involved would be happier and people waiting for the books could care less if they were 100% written by him as long as they come out. It's obvious his true passion lies with television and it would be cool to see him have the time to devote to actually writing episodes of these shows.
Game of Thrones disappeared from pop culture ...
variety.com
‘Game of Thrones’ Ices Out Twitter Competition as ‘Stranger Things’ Holds Strong
'Game of Thrones' iced out the Twitter competition on Variety’s Trending TV chart for the week of June 13 to 19.
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HBO about to greenlight 4 more shows lmaoGame of Thrones disappeared from pop culture ...
‘Game of Thrones’ Ices Out Twitter Competition as ‘Stranger Things’ Holds Strong
'Game of Thrones' iced out the Twitter competition on Variety’s Trending TV chart for the week of June 13 to 19.
Genuinely surprised by this:
‘Game of Thrones’ Ices Out Twitter Competition as ‘Stranger Things’ Holds Strong
'Game of Thrones' iced out the Twitter competition on Variety’s Trending TV chart for the week of June 13 to 19.
variety.com
