{"id":5737,"date":"2019-09-16T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2019-09-16T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:18:06","slug":"i-could-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2019\/09\/16\/i-could-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Could Tell You…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… but then I’d have to kill you.<\/p>\n

Yes, yes, I know.\u00a0\u00a0 The internet is full of stories about a second GAME OF THRONES prequel moving closer to\u00a0 production.\u00a0\u00a0 There are stories in the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, DEADLINE, dozens of other places.\u00a0\u00a0 You’ve seen them, I suppose.\u00a0\u00a0 Since one cannot put the genie back in the lamp, here’s a link to one of the most complete, from ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/2019\/09\/12\/game-of-thrones-prequel-targaryens\/<\/p>\n

Many people have been emailing me since these stories hit the web, asking me to confirm or deny.<\/p>\n

Sorry.\u00a0\u00a0 Can’t.\u00a0\u00a0 Well, not much, in any case.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I can confirm that HBO put several GAMES OF THRONES successor shows in development at one point. \u00a0 There were four to start with. \u00a0 Then five. \u00a0 Then three. \u00a0 I’ve said all that before. \u00a0 Jane Goldman’s as yet untitled show, which I am still not supposed to call THE LONG NIGHT, is one of those. \u00a0 The pilot on that one wrapped a month ago and has been in post-production.\u00a0 I am expecting to see her first cut soon. \u00a0 (Last month in Belfast, I got a behind-the-scenes look at some of her sets, and they were spectacular<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The show stirring up all the internet headlines right now is one of the others.\u00a0\u00a0 Also a prequel.\u00a0\u00a0 Set thousands of years after Jane’s show in the history of Westeros.\u00a0 And yes, it is based on material from one of my books.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

((FWIW, those who have read FIRE & BLOOD will realize it contains enough materials for a dozen shows)).<\/p>\n

This one has a title, but no one else has revealed it, so I had better not either.\u00a0 ((But it’s not the obvious title)).<\/p>\n

It has a script and a bible, and both of them are terrific, first rate, exciting.\u00a0\u00a0 They’re the work of RYAN CONDAL.\u00a0\u00a0 I first met Ryan when he came to New Mexico a couple of years ago to shoot a pilot for a fantasy western called THE SIXTH GUN, based on the comic book.\u00a0\u00a0 That show did not go, though I had the pleasure of screening the pilot at my theatre, the Jean Cocteau.\u00a0\u00a0 Later we also did a premiere for COLONY, the aliens-in-LA series that Ryan created and ran.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s a helluva strong writer, and a huge fan of A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, Dunk & Egg, and Westeros in general.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve loved working with him, and if the Seven Gods and HBO are kind, I hope to keep on working with him for years to come on this new successor show, the title of which is…<\/p>\n

Ooops.\u00a0 Almost slipped.\u00a0\u00a0 Can’t say yet.<\/p>\n

I can<\/em> say that there will be dragons. \u00a0 Everyone else has said that, so why not me?<\/p>\n

I do want to point out that “moving closer to a pilot order” is NOT the same thing as “getting a pilot order.”\u00a0 Would that it were.\u00a0\u00a0 This is encouraging, this is exciting, but don’t buy the couch just yet.\u00a0\u00a0 When HBO actually gives us a pilot order, you will hear me shouting it from the rooftops.\u00a0\u00a0 A series order, and I’ll be shouting even louder.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But we’ll see.\u00a0\u00a0 Right now all the signs are good, but nothing is confirmed.<\/p>\n

Some websites are suggesting that the news about Ryan’s show moving forward means that Jane’s show won’t.\u00a0\u00a0 If that’s so, no one has told me.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t think it’s so.\u00a0\u00a0 I love what Ryan has done, but I’m excited about the possibilities for Jane’s series as well.\u00a0 Jane and I had dinner in London (at Rule’s, great spot, oldest restaurant in England, Charles Dickens and H.G. Wells ate there, it was a thrill to break bread with their ghosts), and her enthusiasm was palpable.\u00a0\u00a0 The world of Ice & Fire<\/em> is a WORLD, <\/em>boys and girls.\u00a0\u00a0 Huge continents, ten thousand years of history, cities, deserts, oceans, mysteries, triumphs and tragedies.\u00a0 If there were indeed eight million stories in The Naked City<\/em> in the 50s, surely there are eight billion <\/em>stories to be told about Westeros, Essos, Sothoryos, and the lands beyond the Sunset Sea, south of Oz and north of Shangri-La…<\/p>\n

And in these days of a hundred networks, channels, and streaming services, I think television has plenty of room for two shows set in Westeros… or hell, maybe three or four… I still want to do SPEARCARRIERS, after all.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… but then I’d have to kill you. Yes, yes, I know.\u00a0\u00a0 The internet is full of stories about a second GAME OF THRONES prequel moving closer to\u00a0 production.\u00a0\u00a0 There are stories in the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, DEADLINE, dozens of other places.\u00a0\u00a0 You’ve seen them, I suppose.\u00a0\u00a0 Since one cannot put the genie back in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[15,71,11],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5744,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions\/5744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}