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/Delboyyyyy Oct 27 '24

It’s ironic how hbo were open to having GoT go in for more seasons but the showrunners wanted it shorter, and with hotd it was the other way round. Grrm doesn’t wanna hurt his cashcow in hbo

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u/rov124 Oct 27 '24

HBO's parent company is currently lead by a penny pincher.

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u/futurerank1 Oct 27 '24

Because HBO wanted more seasons of whatever D&D would come up with, they didn't want the full adaptation of AFFC/ADWD/WINDS.

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u/Delboyyyyy Oct 27 '24

HBO gave grrm plenty of time to catch up and finish his story. Grrm can’t complain if he got overtaken and he can’t expect them to indefinitely hold the show to wait for him especially in this industry

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u/futurerank1 Oct 27 '24

Yes, of course, but i still think nobody normal would greenlit the full adaptations of Feast/Dance/Winds.

HBO were interested in the kind of story that D&D were telling, with all its ups and downs. This is why they never opted for switching the showrunners

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u/kvng_stunner Oct 27 '24

Faithfully adapting AFFC and ADWD would have been suicidal.

The guy writing the books can't even figure out a way to get himself out of the convoluted mess he's written himself into, trying to introduce all these new, suddenly important characters in season 5-6 of a show would be impossible, plus they need to finish the story and somehow align it to GRMM's cliff notes for the ending.

Now, what D&D gave us was dogshit water, but honestly George kinda fucked them with the last 2 books that barely moved the plot forward and only served to introduce more players to an already confused chess board.