Winter is Officially Coming to HBO
I’ve been following the development of the pilot episode of Game of Thrones since it was announced that HBO picked up the rights to the series over two years ago. For those of you not familiar with the title it is the first book in George RR Martin’s epic fantasy series The Song of Ice & Fire. The story isn’t your typical high fantasy like so many Lord of the Rings clones, it is filled with a gritty realism found in characters that are not either good or bad, but very human. The story is graphic, intense, exciting, engaging and fantastical from start to the end of the 4th book (5-7 have yet to be released). Also the nature of the story telling have always led me to believe an excellent adaptation could be done for either film or television. The story is far to big for a series of films, and regular television stations aren’t capable of airing the material without severe editing. Only HBO could possibly pull off this project so it’s official announcement that HBO gave the greenlight to the first season after previewing the pilot episode last month. I have doubts HBO can put enough of the story of each book into a ten episode season, but I can’t wait to see what they pull off. I’ll be hoping some fanboy gets a hold of the pilot at HBO and leaks it like the True Blood one was. HBO did release the first promo shot of the series, which looks to be taken from the prologue of the first book.
If you want to read more about the series check out the link to the side for Winter is Coming, a blog dedicated to the production news on the show. And if you haven’t read the books, then shame on you. Get that shit done.
Funny sidenote… I didn’t have my blog bookmarked so I went to do a google search for it, and they following happened thanks to Google’s autocomplete.
I just want to know why everything that is excessive is bad? It wouldn’t have been so bad if I was buried under excessive celebration, or excessive cleavage, or excessive sex for golf pros. Not this site, we are under urine and saliva. I guess I can tell Kanye what it’s like to wake up to be the shit and the urine.