{"id":9795,"date":"2025-05-28T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=9795"},"modified":"2025-05-26T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:55:19","slug":"howard-meets-hercules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2025\/05\/28\/howard-meets-hercules\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Meets Hercules"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all you Howard Waldrop fans out there… if you enjoyed our short films, the adaptations of MARY-MARGARET ROAD-GRADER<\/em>, NIGHT OF THE COOTERS<\/strong><\/em>, and THE UGLY CHICKENS<\/strong><\/em> that we’ve been showing at film festivals over the past couple of years, we have big news a-coming.\u00a0\u00a0 A Waldrop feature<\/strong><\/em> is on the way.\u00a0 All animated, from Lion Forge.<\/p>\n

It’s an adaptation of Howard’s novella A DOZEN TOUGH JOBS, <\/em><\/strong>his\u00a0 take on the Twelve Labors of Hercules.\u00a0\u00a0 Joe Lansdale, the Sage of Nacogdoches, father of Hap and Leonard, and creator of Bubba Ho-Tep<\/em><\/strong>, did the screenplay, and no one could have done it better except maybe Howard His Own Self.<\/p>\n

(I know, I know.\u00a0 Some of you will just be pissed off by this, as you are by everything I announce here that is not about Westeros or THE WINDS OF WINTER<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>You have given up on me, or on the book.\u00a0 I will never finish WINDS,\u00a0 If I do, I will never finish A DREAM OF SPRING.\u00a0\u00a0 If I do, it won’t be any good.\u00a0 I ought to get some other writer to pinch hit for me… \u00a0 \u00a0 I am going to die soon anyway, because I am so old.\u00a0\u00a0 I lost all interest in A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em> decades ago.\u00a0 I don’t give a shit about writing any longer, I just sit around and spend my money.\u00a0\u00a0 I edit the Wild Cards books too, but you hate Wild Cards.\u00a0\u00a0 You may hate everything else I have ever written, the Hugo-winners and Hugo-losers, “A Song for Lya” and DYING OF THE LIGHT<\/em><\/strong>, “Sandkings” and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0 “This Tower of Ashes” and “The Stone City,” OLD MARS<\/em><\/strong> and O<\/strong>LD VENUS<\/strong><\/em> and ROGUES<\/em><\/strong> and WARRIORS<\/em><\/strong> and DANGEROUS WOMEN\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and all the other anthologies I edited with my friend Gardner Dozois,\u00a0\u00a0 You don’t care about any of those, I know.\u00a0\u00a0 You don’t care about anything but WINDS OF WINTER<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 You’ve told me so often enough).<\/p>\n

Thing is, I do<\/em><\/strong> care about them.<\/p>\n

And I care about Westeros and WINDS <\/em><\/strong>as well.\u00a0 The Starks and Lannisters and Targaryens, Tyrion and Asha, Dany and Daenerys, the dragons and the direwolves, I care about them all.\u00a0 More than you can ever imagine.<\/p>\n

I loved “A Dozen Tough Jobs” the first time I read it, ages ago.\u00a0\u00a0 I loved Howard too.\u00a0 It saddens me that he did not live long enough to see the film; I hope we do him justice.\u00a0\u00a0 How can we not?\u00a0 Hercules, Howard, Joe, Lion Forge… I wish you all could share my excitement at the prospect of this movie.<\/p>\n

For those who do, The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/strong> broke the story<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/george-r-r-martin-howard-waldrop-dozen-tough-jobs-film-1236223711\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For all you Howard Waldrop fans out there… if you enjoyed our short films, the adaptations of MARY-MARGARET ROAD-GRADER, NIGHT OF THE COOTERS, and THE UGLY CHICKENS that we’ve been showing at film festivals over the past couple of years, we have big news a-coming.\u00a0\u00a0 A Waldrop feature is on the way.\u00a0 All animated, from […]<\/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":[59,342,160],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795"}],"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=9795"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9801,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795\/revisions\/9801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}