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Unless something has changed, its actually Game of Thrones. Winter is Coming is the tagline of the show, and the name of that site (also the words of House Stark). I'm really looking forward to this.
God I love HBO
I know, right? As soon as I heard they were doing it, I was cautiously optimistic. Then I heard that Sean Bean was cast as Ned Stark and Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister and I got super-psyched. I can't remember the actor's name off the top of my head, but he's a really good choice for Robert Baratheon, too.Originally Posted by Miller192
It's kind of odd, now that I think about it, that they named the show Game of Thrones, when the book series is The Song of Ice and Fire. It'd have been like naming the Lord of the Rings movies Fellowship of the Ring.
For anyone who knows the drama behind the book series there seems to be a feeling George RR Martin may have finished the 5th book. Finally.
A feeling? I'll stop lamenting when the darn thing is on the shelves. Not that I'm not acutely aware of how writing yourself in to a corner can lead to writers block (which is what I heard happened to Martin) but nothing could have been more frustrating to have the promise of a fourth book be changed when the author decides the fourth installment needs to be split up, does the more boring one first, then gets stuck for years on the next part.
"Everything we have and are is ours, and still exists, by grace and courage of the soldiers. They are the men of the century, because without them we should no longer be numbering its years-- or numbering them only to curse the wretchedness of our survival in it." Eric Linklater, 1953.
Sean Bean is a really good actor....IMO, vastly underrated. Could carry a major motion picture as a lead role.
This looks good. HBO really makes good stuff...some of them I don't get into (Bored to Death, the title says it all...Big Love is a snore-fest, too) but their epic stuff like this is fantastic. I hadn't heard of this before, I'm looking forward to it.
If you haven't seen it, check out Sharpe (TV series). It was a TV series from the 90's in which Bean plays a fictional British soldier during the Napoleonic era, based on Bernard Cornwell books.
I haven't heard of that, but if I can get it on Netflix I'll check it out.
Holy sheep ****. I'm in the middle of A Storm of Swords right now. Great books. I'm interested to see how they do the direwolves if they get that far.
I'm pretty sure they will because they've teased scenes in King's Landing. The wolves had grown pretty big by then. I'm more interested in seeing the Wall. Yeah, it's a big block of ice, but it's impossibly high and hundreds of miles long.
Anybody catch the exclusive preview tonight? They basically showed the first 15 minutes, which for those that read the books is the prelude with the Nightswatch, and then the execution of the lone survivor/deserter.
Yeah I saw it. On DVR. Watched it twice. Now we have to wait two weeks to see the whole first episode.
The Dire Wolves are going to be large dogs. Not even Wolves or Wolf Hybrids. Some big dog breed.
The wall looked pretty darn cool.
The girl playing Arya looks to be a great little actress.
And there has been confirmation that the fifth book is finished and scheduled for release in June of this year. About the time of the final episode of the series.
I guess that keeps them from trying to constantly incorporate CGI whenever the wolves are around.
And I'll believe the book is out when it's in my hands.
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