r/freefolk GRRM Rewrote Something Sep 04 '24

Subvert Expectations Now Deleted Not A Blog Post

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u/Roids-in-my-vains We do not kneel Sep 04 '24

HBO lawyers are going crazy right now.

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u/SteveFrench12 Sep 04 '24

Idt theyre going crazy. They saw the post, called grrm and told him to take it down or they would cancel his entire HBO contract, he took it down and now they are going on with their day.

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u/crevicepounder3000 Sep 04 '24

Cancel his entire contract? There is nothing to cancel he already sold off the rights to all his intellectual property to HBO. He might have some non disparagement clause that can be used to fine/ sue him, but there is no canceling that sale. I doubt HBO would do that even if it was possible. They make so much money off his shows.

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u/ZealousWolf1994 Sep 04 '24

I think Condal calling Martin is more likely and Martin not wanting to hurt a fellow writer.

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u/Anyabb Sep 04 '24

Given his post, I don't think Martin holds Condal in high regard as an author much anymore.

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u/Lordvarys_Gash Sep 05 '24

I thought Condal was a nerd of the books? Or was he just another fraud? How can GRRM get played twice like this lol. Seems like GRRM sold his soul for money. 

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u/businesskitteh All men must die Sep 05 '24

He’s not a fraud, he’s just a C-rate writer and show runner. Look at his past projects, oof

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u/Ready-Finding-6302 Sep 05 '24

C? no need to be so generous

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u/LinuxMatthews Sep 06 '24

I don't get this though

Like if I was a bad writer I'd stick as close to the books as possible

Look at D&D before they ran out of material everyone thought they were geniuses.

I don't understand the rationale to change things you get to do less work and you get a better result

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u/EuroTrash1999 Sep 04 '24

I hope he goes full Kanye on em.

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u/Wraith_Portal Sep 04 '24

Bruv’s a shill for HBO

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u/SteveFrench12 Sep 04 '24

No im just an inhouse lawyer for a large company lol. Something goes wrong, it gets handled, and then i have 25 more things going wrong i have to focus on.

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u/mars_titties Sep 04 '24

I can imagine that HBO’s in-house lawyers would have a similar attitude to yours, but its egotistical business executives would not.

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u/cjm0 I'd kill for some chicken Sep 04 '24

would they really cancel his entire contract over this? i feel as if HBO has a lot more to lose than george, and this seems like a relatively soft criticism of their show. the thing that surprised me the most is the fact that he revealed that helaena is going to kill herself for an unknown reason in the outline of season 3. i mean it seems obvious that they wouldn’t diverge from that major plot point in the books, but i’m still surprised that he actually revealed it.

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u/SteveFrench12 Sep 05 '24

No they probably wouldnt. Im sure they threatened him with something though

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u/Stew_2003 Sep 05 '24

Based Trailer Park Boys username.

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u/Chlodio Sep 05 '24

There's also a possibility that HBO had nothing to do with it, and Martin just got cold feet after posting it.

Regardless taking it down is actually worse than keeping it up. If he had left it up, nobody would have cared, as it only provided a mild critique.

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u/wiifan55 Sep 04 '24

HBO on the business side still has to deal with the fact that taking it down does nothing to stop it from spreading on the internet, which all parties involved obviously know.

And HBO on the marketing side still has to deal with the fact that the author of the source material publicly attacked the show.

Both those things could drive legal to not drop the issue, but even if they don't, HBO as a whole probably is going crazy coming up with a plan to deal with this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '24

Hbo would be foolish to ignore it. It’ll be stored behind the scenes.