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Song of Ice and Fire HBO TV series picked up, premieres next Spring!
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UPDATE: HBO HAS GREENLIT THE SERIES. IT'S COMIN', BABY!
Figured I'd update the first post. Sean Bean has been cast as Eddard Stark in the pilot for AGOT. It's old news now, but Peter Dinklage has been cast as Tyrion.
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Figured you guys would want see this.
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Figured I'd update the first post. Sean Bean has been cast as Eddard Stark in the pilot for AGOT. It's old news now, but Peter Dinklage has been cast as Tyrion.
Other actors signed on for the pilot were Kit Harington in the role of Jon Snow, Mark Addy as Robert Baratheon, Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon, and Harry Lloyd as Viserys Targaryen.
old stuff:
Figured you guys would want see this.
HBO has given the production order.
They will be filming the pilot episode of A GAME OF THRONES.
It's just the pilot so far. They'll need to see that before they decide whether to proceed with a full season's episodes. So let's all hope the pilot will kick serious ass.
It should. David Benioff and Dan Weiss did a terrific job with the script. And yes, all of you can relax, it's very faithful. Dan and David will be the executive producers for the pilot and (we hope) the eventual series.
More details when I have 'em. The news is very fresh. HBO just issued their own press release, which should be up on their website soon, if it's not there already.
Winter is coming to HBO. Hot damn.
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I don't think HBO's pilots are handled the same way as network channels.
Pretty much my reaction when I saw this a few minutes ago on his blog.
secondly, listen hear grrm, you just put your face in your keyboard and FINISH MY BOOK!!!!!!
(I am so looking forward to this pilot. This is the only shit that will make me order HBO)
I really hope it's being put in the right hands, the series has some amazing possibilities if the script is realized correctly. Definitely be adding HBO back to my cable if this actually gets started.
There's also Tyrion to consider...
I have very high hopes for this series, given how good Rome was and how similar it is in tone to Asoiaf I think we may be on to a winner here.
So how much content do you think they will fit into the pilot?
I have a feeling that the episode will end as
I may be mistaken, but I have a vague recollection of G.R.R.M saying somewhere that in hindsight, it would have been better to make all the kids a couple of years older and that this might be done in the tv adaptation.
Also: James Callis for Littlefinger.
otherwise there's no way they can do it.
Right now the best show still producing is Entourage. Which has basically been the HBO version of Friends. (It's a great show but not much of a flagship)
They need to get something going that will last more than a few seasons. I can't bring myself to read Fantasy (With the exception of Tolkien's better known stuff) but this looks like something I could enjoy.
But anyway my dicks hard right now.
Yeah, GRRM said somewhere that it would've been better to make them older. Mostly cause he planned to have a large gap of years between the first three and second three books so they could grow up a bit... but that couldn't really happen seeing how things turned out.
Yess.....
I read the first two books the other week, and loved them, but seriously. all the juvenile characters were written way too old. It was like the author had never spent more than five minutes with anyone under 25...
That's the perfect place to end the pilot. Also, that's where the series had me hooked
This is awesome news and I don't think it could be in better hands than HBO.
And if we're going to play fantasy casting
Jamie Lannister= Charlie hunnam
Tyrion Lannister= Peter Dinklage
This could get me to subscribe to HBO. I still have time to finish A Feast of Crows...I think I stopped about a quarter of the way through when it started dragging. Don't fuck this up HBO.
These are both sound choices. In fact I would bet on Peter Dinklage being cast as Tyrion, he's pretty much ideal for the part.
I AM SO STOKED ABOUT THIS.
YES
YES
A THOUSAND TIMES YES
He won't even have the Galactica conflict since they'll be done filming BSG by the time HBO makes the yea/nay call on this and Littlefinger doesn't appear until King's Landing
@Sal: Was Callis the lawyer on BSG?
Callis is Baltar, although the dude who played Romo Lampkin would also do a good job.
Seriously I will be surprised if the pilot doesn't win through. The only issue could be production costs (like what happened to Rome)
I enjoy the books but not the terrible aspects of them
Rome looked like one of their cheaper shows. Seriously they really skimped on it. And the battle scenes were terrible. It was not up to HBO's usual standards at all.
Could this be the reason for the stalls in Dance?
Maybe the publisher is holding over for the series to start so they can jump up book sales?
Is this like a hilarious joke?
The first season (12 episodes) cost $100 million dollars to make. It is their most expensive show to date, I believe.
I can't think of anything in Asoiaf that was terrible.
There were a few scenes which were unneccesary, perhaps at worst a little gratuitous, but a good scriptwriter will trim those out anyway.
Honestly this isn't terrible difficult if you don't have your head up your ass.
Any guesses on shooting location?
Canada? (Probably my guess)
also calling the sex in ASOIAF gratuitous is pretty knee-jerk: considering the way that each character handles sexuality is absolutely essential to their character
for Rome? It was shot in Italy.
I thought it looked great. It remains one of my favourite shows and is one of the main reasons I have high hopes for THRONES