{"id":9549,"date":"2025-01-28T07:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=9549"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:53:06","slug":"dunk-egg-a-few-random-mutterings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2025\/01\/28\/dunk-egg-a-few-random-mutterings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunk, Egg, a Few Random Mutterings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where does the time go?\u00a0 January went by in a flash.\u00a0 I had a lot of posts I wanted to make, a lot of things I wanted to say,\u00a0 I had writing to do, I had zooming to do, meetings to attend, I had scripts to read, notes to give.\u00a0 There was travel, some for business and some for fun.\u00a0 There were friends to mourn, books to blurb.\u00a0 I saw a few good movies and television shows, that gave me some pleasure.\u00a0 The NFL did not.\u00a0 I missed most of the games this season, but that was probably a good thing, sinceit relieved me of having to write any of those “life is meaningless and full of pain” posts… though it was<\/em><\/strong>, the Jets were wretched and the Giants were worse.<\/p>\n

We returned from our summer travels on August 15, and I had a ton of things I wanted to talk about.\u00a0 Instead of one long post, I decided to break up my trip and make a series of shorter ones.\u00a0 I figured I’d have it all done by the end of August.\u00a0 Well, no… I still have a worldcon to cover, and the Alfies, and my visit to Tolkien’s grave.\u00a0 I DID<\/em><\/strong> cover some of that… not in my Not A Blog, but in a rambling speech I gave at Bubonicon… but my phone screwed up and the video we made was lost, so my Not A Blog ended up being Not A Speech.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n

Well, I will try to get to that later… eventually… for now, let me touch briefly on better news.<\/p>\n

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS, for starts.\u00a0 It’s done.\u00a0 Ira and his team wrapped the first season months ago, and moved right on to post production.\u00a0 I’ve seen all six episodes now (the last two in rough cuts, admittedly), and I loved them.\u00a0\u00a0 Dunk and Egg have always been favorites of mine, and the actors we found to portray them are just incredible.\u00a0 The rest of the cast are terrific as well.\u00a0 Wait until you guys meet the Laughing Storm. and Tanselle Too-Tall.<\/p>\n

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS is an adaptation of “The Hedge Knight,” the first of the novellas I wrote about them.\u00a0 It’s as faithful as adaptation as a reasonable man could hope for (and you all know how incredibly\u00a0 reasonable I am on that particular subject).\u00a0\u00a0 Viewers who are looking for action, and more action, and only action… well, this one may not satisfy you.\u00a0 There’s a fight scene here, as exciting as anyone could ask for, but there are no dragons this time around, no huge battles, no white walkers… this is a character piece, and its focus is on duty and honor, on chivalry and all it means.\u00a0 “The Hedge Knight” was published between A GAME OF THRONES and A CLASH OF KINGS in Robert Silverberg’s epic anthology LEGENDS, and was so popular that it brought tens of thousands of new readers to Westeros. \u00a0 Sales of my novels were much higher after LEGENDS than before, and for that I credit Silverbob, and Anne Groell, and Dunk and Egg. \u00a0 This one ranks as one of the best stories I’ve ever written, and I am so so so pleased that Ira Parker, Ti Mikkel, Aziza Barnes (may they rest in peace), Owen Harris, and our astonishing cast and crew did right by them.<\/p>\n

The series will make its debut late this year, I am now told.\u00a0 How late, I could not say.\u00a0 Maybe in the fall.<\/p>\n

I hope you will love the show as much as I do.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we’ll be moving on to “The Sworn Sword,” the second tale of Dunk & Egg.\u00a0\u00a0 And once I finish THE WINDS OF WINTER, I will need to get hopping on “The Village Hero,” and all the other tales that await the lads.\u00a0 Don’t worry, I am sure you folks will remind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where does the time go?\u00a0 January went by in a flash.\u00a0 I had a lot of posts I wanted to make, a lot of things I wanted to say,\u00a0 I had writing to do, I had zooming to do, meetings to attend, I had scripts to read, notes to give.\u00a0 There was travel, some for […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[32,15,24,34,76,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549"}],"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=9549"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9566,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549\/revisions\/9566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}