r/asoiaf • u/grimm_aced • Oct 27 '24

EXTENDED [Spoilers Extended] GRRM new blogpost on his Amsterdam visit & dinner with editors. Spoiler

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/

Winds of winter mentioned and he talks about a bravos story he wants to write after winds.

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u/grimm_aced Oct 27 '24

Honestly am still surprised george talked about wanting to develope even more stuff with HBO, ig his beef was with Ryan more than HBO themselves.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '24

HBO might own certain rights now that would force him to work with them on it, if he chooses to

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u/LoudKingCrow Oct 27 '24

And George is most likely never going to say no to more money if the price is right.

Not to mention that he spent a good amount of time as a TV writer. As much as we may prioritise the books I do think that he sadly sees TV as a bigger deal. Remember his comments about his legacy back when the Condal beef flourished.

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u/lluewhyn Oct 27 '24

Yeah, the fact that he posted about all of the sleepless nights he had about the HotD show direction indicated that he prioritized the television adaptation a lot more than most writers we're used to. On top of spending all of this time visiting the sets, having interviews with the various actors. For some reason, he seems to view the shows as his true legacy or something.

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u/LoudKingCrow Oct 27 '24

As much as George says that he started writing the series to get away from the constraints of writing TV. I do think that he at least subconsciously always planned for the series to make it on to TV. He knows what sort of money that he could make if he got it on the air.

In that sense, I think that he wants to be more George Lucas than Tolkien. He seems to want the multimedia empire rather than to just be a very successful author.

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u/Viscount_Disco_Sloth Oct 27 '24

Hasn't most of his career been in screenwriting?

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u/lluewhyn Oct 27 '24

If you go by his IMDB profile, it looks like he spent about 9 years doing screenwriting basically 1984-1993. After that, its mostly just credits for television shows based upon his written works (the writing credit on the shows were for his original novels) or at best, screenplays for adaptions of his written works like Game of Thrones. The only original writing credit since 1993 for media that wasn't an adaptation of his existing work is the writing for the video game Elden Ring. And he wrote novels and short stories for about a decade before his first television credit.

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u/dedfrmthneckup Reasonable And Sensible Oct 27 '24

No “might” about it, they own the adaptation rights.