As we count the days until Game of Thrones returns to our screen , we ’re also obsessing about another tick clock : How long until the TV show overtakes George R.R. Martin ’s books ? How can the show end when the story has n’t terminate on the Thomas Nelson Page ? And now , Martin says they ’re severely talking about terminate it with a movie .
babble out toThe Hollywood Reporterat the season four premiere , Martin says the mind of a self-aggrandizing - screen Thrones movie is being “ actively discussed , ” bestow :
“ It all count on how long the principal serial runs … Do we run for seven years ? Do we tend for eight ? Do we run for 10 ? The books get bigger and bigger ( in scope ) . It might require a feature to link up things up , something with a feature budget , like $ 100 million for two hours . Those tartar get real giving , you have a go at it . ”
He also said that the other possibility under discussion is a big - screen movie base on his “ Dunk and Egg ” stories , which take blank space years before the main book serial publication and need citizenry who are related to the Game of Thrones character in way that he wo n’t set . “ I have compose these three stories , and I have about a 12 more . ”
The Hollywood Reporteraddsthat a natural collaborator for a Thrones film would be Warner Bros. , which already did two Sex and the City moving picture and is putting out a film based on fellow HBO series Entourage .
Reading between the lines , it sounds as though Martin is hold a bit of a argument with the HBO team — everyone at HBO , let in the web ’s president , has latterly expressed a preference for the show to last seven season , or eight at the most . Martin , meanwhile , seems to have believed that the HBO show would devote at least three seasons to the combined outcome of A Dance With Dragons and A Feast For brag , before return a couple seasons each to the final two books . The show has done a pretty brilliant job of streamlining Martin ’s storytelling up to this spot , and you could see some storylines are already in position to move forward agency more quickly on television than in the books .
For what it ’s deserving , I do n’t know that I ’d be that keen on meet toilet close as a two - 60 minutes movie — and if Martin is upset at the estimate of A Dream of Spring being told in just ten hour on television set , just imagine if that massive tome stop up being told in only two hours instead . A movie finale would necessarily focalize more on big conflict scenes and VFX barb , and less on persona get the resolution they merit .
I still conceive that Martin can forfend having the show catch up to him , though — he just needs to release Winds of Winter within a yr from now , so it comes out before time of year five starting time . And then he would have two years , give or take , to save the final book . Assuming the last book is just letting all the shoes he ’s been carefully suspend drop , that might not be out of the question . One way or another , though , this is going to be fascinating — we ’ve never seen a spot quite like this before . [ Thanks for the heads up , DaveinVA ! ]
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