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[brightroar]

Only Cath is going to understand the significance of this really, but:

HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin's bestselling fantasy series "A Song of Fire and Ice" into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

"Fire" is the first TV project for Benioff ("Troy") and Weiss ("Halo") and will

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[bodybag_pilgrim]

Actually, HBO are probably the network to do this. They're behind Deadwood, the Sopranos... every actually grim TV show out the states.

[evilbilbo]

So they may do it semi-properly, I can't see evening with Deadwood as proof, them actually pulling it off fully

[brightroar]

Thats no guarantee that they can take on a medieval fantasy series where the plot is driven by politics, intrigue, and around 30-40 main characters, with a supporting cast of around 300, most of whom contribute to the main plot in ways that would firstly be difficult to show on TV, as their impact on the storyline is (in most cases) only fully realised by a character when they get killed two books down the line, wheras the reader is always supposed to be subtly (or in some cases not so subtly) aware that something is wrong. Many of these characters are too important to the plot to be cut (if you've read any of it - think people like Daeron, Brynden Tully and Nestor Royce), or their lines given to other characters - in the vasy majority of cases it just wouldn't make sense

[captain_carrot]

Harry potter barely works as a screen adaption? I'm not really qualified to say, as I don't particularly like the books or films, but i've heard the opinion from several different points, including interviews with big movie people, that the Potter books are ripe for film adaption precisely *because* the plot jumps out at you so much, and the descriptions and such are in pretty good detail for a book. It means there's very little that needs to be extrapolated rather than just lifted straight from the page, and thus very little where people will moan "well that wasn't anything like how *I* pictured it".

[westslide]

Ack! People who had something to do with Troy are going near Ice!

Ehh, it should be pretty good. I've enjoyed an awful lot of HBO series' in the past. And the notion of breaking down each book into a season should work out excellently. It's going to be... freakin' massive, quite frankly.

Which episode would GRRM want for GoT? It's been a while since I read the book, but most likely, poor, poor Ned...

[brightroar]

My money's on either *that* particular scene starring Ned, or the birth of Dany's children. They're just too important to screw up.

[spike369]

Part of my general problems with fandom is our generl speed with which we jump to condemn new projects based on their beloved work. Take as examples that turned out well.

The Lord of the Rings.
Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who
Harry Potter

All condemned by fans but turned out really well. Leave it until we see the finished article and then judge otherwise it will be like star wars and the Matrix all over again where wellmeaning guys try their best to tell their own story and get shat on for not telling it "right"

[brightroar]

Whether BSG, Doctor Who or Harry Potter turned out well is a matter of debate, really.....