HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

also hbo shows arent always 1 season = 1 year

sopranos took long breaks

Never read the books, but pretty keen on watching this.

what is the point of this if the dude won't even finish the books???? Goddamn stop re-writing them already!!!

also hbo shows arent always 1 season = 1 year

sopranos took long breaks

― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Saturday, June 19, 2010 7:50 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

name one HBO show besides Sopranos that didn't/doesn't do a new season every year

actually, I'll name another, Curb Your Enthusiasm, but i think that's it

The Wire had a significant gap between seasons 3 and 4, but that was partly because they weren't sure if they were going to renew it.

at this point, I am wondering if it might not be better if some talented cable TV writers finished this thing for him. I am losing faith that he has any idea where he is going with these books.

We should start bitching about the BSG/Lost style finalefail.

Turns out Tyrion is Jesus.

big love took a break right?

If it hasn't it needs to.

Carcetti is Littlefinger

That character means nothing to me obv.

FUCK YEAH THAT IS BRILLIANT!!!!!

yeah, that is good casting

ditto

Really looking forward to this!

more teasing

I hope this starts a trend of classy TV fantasy adaptations. Someone should do Perdido Street Station (though would be fucking expensive). Do these books have monsters and magic and shit, or is it just guys fighting with swords?

They have dragons and undead.

only in the first and last episodes of this season though, that saves you some money right there

perdido street station feels basically like a miniseries already! which is unfortunate in that the other bas-lag stuff wouldn't really work as further series of.

Exclusive EW pics

Martin has penned the 8th episode.

Also EW On the Set

There's a new language or something that's better than Klingon it says.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGuIhhyNX-o
Looks nice and wintry

Wasn't the guy in the first scene of the trailer also in the Lord of the Ring movies? I guess all "serious" fantasy movies/series now have to look kinda murky with muted colours, since LotR did that. Will anyone make a colourful fantasy movie anymore?

yeah thats sean bean... ive been reading the first book and im not a fantasy guy at all but its p. good... a lot of the early parts of the story take place in a wintery shithole, which limits your color choices... plus its kind of 'gritty' fantasy and they wanna convey that style/mood...

lotr movies were pretty colorful imo, like that part where they're in elfburg and the dwarf goes AND U HAVE MY AXE... lots of stuff actually... its just the color palette changes depending on context... i mean what do you want dude, rainbows over mount doom..

Well, not necessarily, of course it depends on the story... It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice. For example, based on the trailer the Avatar The Las

Well, not necessarily, of course it depends on the story... It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice. For example, based on the trailer the Avatar The Last Airbender movie has the same kind of look even though the source material is actually quite colourful and fun.

have you read the books? if there is one story that needs to look "gritty", it's this one.

So is each season going to be one book?

God, I hope not. To me the best way to do it would be to break it down and rearrange in a linear timeline. Jump around between characters, like any good television drama with a ton of characters tends to do.

It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice.

yes because there have been so, so many live action fantasy movies recently

still lolling at "muted color palette of LotR"

It's not fantasy, it's HBO

A decent little write-up about the 10-minute making of that premiered and also the branding of the show.

oh, and that Inside of Game of Thrones featurette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJR3eBfcusM

This looks so good. I really, really hope it succeeds and gets George off his fat ass to finish the story before they catch up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ5p18wIQEI

April cannot come soon enough.

im still peeved they didnt get tamzin merchant to play daenerys. her replacement doesnt look inbred enough imo. at least they got the iron throne right.

and yes this will be just for nerds.

Hopefully it will do for us nerds who haven't read the books as well.

i have the speakers off, did they cut this trailer to 'power'

this looks so awful. the throne of swords is a pretty stupid idea for a visual and this is not executed in any way that'd serve to redeem that

I pulled out my old copy to read again before the adaption starts and I'd totally forgotten I have an autographed copy.... lol.

hi five!

also that counts as a humblebrag, right? ;)

i'm on storm of swords now. it's good, but i liked the first book best. should be incredibly easy to adapt for cable!

here's some big-ass pics:

http://i.imgur.com/0NlAW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xLJ3Y.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vUc0i.jpg

am 3/4 of the way through the first book...freaking love it!

those photos make me p excited for the tv show

Yes, I should have followed that up with #humblebrag

Looking at prices on eBay I'm wondering if I should just sell this thing, or wait a few more years?

wait until he's dead, yes

holy crap @ the wall, that is impressive. is the 2nd one supposed to be winterfell? don't remember things well enough to ID the first one, maybe the lannisters' castle? that was by the ocean iirc

i'm real tempted to reread the books now that the 5th one finally has a release date and i don't remember most of the plot details, but that's like...4000 pages of pulp fantasy when i already have a long list of new and probably better things to read, damn. i'll probably do it anyway

whatever you do Jon, DON'T TOUCH THE BOOK AT ALL, EVER.

Those pics are awesome. I am pretty excited about this show.

ya first one is king's landing, second is winterfell

the casting is looking pretty good too

Yes! Love it. Wonder if it still has a community. I think so, as The Tain looks like it's got some new content as far as I can tell.

xxpost

i used to play the WWII one. throw yr nades!

― 龜, Thursday, March 17, 2016 12:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yah i loved this one

http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/got-showrunners-say-they-wont-spoil-the-books.html

So weird that from this point forward the show and books will be telling different stories. But then:

"So much of what we’re doing diverges from the books at this point .... People are going to be very surprised when they read the books after the show. They’re quite divergent in so many respects for the remainder of the show."

How the fuck do they know what Martin will or won't include in future unwritten books?

I imagine they're in contact with him enough to know the outlines of what he's going to do.

Sure, no doubt. But ... he's got hundreds, thousands of pages to write over the course of several years. There is no way the guy is going to stick to whatever script he has in mind and equally hard to believe he won't crib from theirs.

equally hard to believe he won't die of a heart attack before he finishes

Maybe George actually has all the books written and he just gets off on withholding them

http://i.imgur.com/mm1Y2OI.png

Haha that's great.

I mean maybe the show won't exactly spoil the books, but I find it hard to believe that the show will vary so greatly from the endgame of the books or answers to big questions like "who are Jon snow's parents?"

HBO jumping on the Talking Dead bandwagon by bringing in the Watch the Thrones podcast guys:

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/game-of-thrones-aftershow-bill-simmons-1201744931/

I thought if UK had one surely America would too.

10k answers and no longer any spoiler issues; new season deserves a new thread, no?

As I understand it the TV show will partly be ahead, but also partly behind?

It's already that way I think

HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

I can’t wait to completely ignore this sh1t and just listen to Achilles last Stand

Hahaha

Always a wise plan