A Game of Thrones (finally) gets greenlit

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Great news for fans of George R. R. Martin’s Song of Fire and Ice fantasy novel series. HBO had purchased the rights to make the series into a TV show (under the name of the first novel, A Game of Thrones) about a year ago, but all the buzz faded quickly. However, Martin himself announced on his blog yesterday that HBO has officially ordered a pilot to made of the series. He tells his readers that the pilot script is great and stays very true to his novel. If that’s true, I find it hard to believe that HBO will be able to pass on it.

I, for one, am looking forward to seeing how a great production company like HBO can bring to life an amazing series of books. This has the potential to be really, really good. A Game of Thrones features incredibly deep characters with a huge sprawling plot. It would fit in perfectly on HBO. The plan as I understand it is to follow the True Blood mold. The first season of the series would follow the plot of the first book, with subsequent seasons picking up the other novels (all seven of them… if they get finished).

If you’re not familiar with the novels, they are essentially medieval soap operas. They follow two powerful, feuding families, the Lannisters and the Starks as they duke it out for control of the seven kingdoms. The plots are twisty and intricately woven, rich with double crossing, back stabbing, a lot of action, and political intrigue.

Now, if we could just get Martin to finish the latest book, I would be one happy camper. He’s still working on book five, with two more to go after that.

Clacked by Bob Degon
on Nov 12, 2008 @ 20:03 EST5EDT