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Speaking of books to TV, HBO pilot for Ice and Fire is done

PostPosted:Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:26 pm
by Flip
http://www.star-ecentral.com/tvnradio/t ... 0completed

http://insideblip.com/node/196


Super excited about this one! I hope the pilot leaks, HBO picks it up, and it starts to air in the Fall of 2010.

PostPosted:Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:04 pm
by Lox
I cannot express my excitement in words.

Well, I can try. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I've been keeping up on everything about the pilot. The casting is spectacular, imo.

Cast Gallery
http://www.towerofthehand.com/essays/hb ... ?20091020b

Photos of some of the cast with Martin.
http://www.towerofthehand.com/blog/2009 ... index.html

PostPosted:Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:49 pm
by Flip
Wow, thats a great cast compilation and lots of them are spot on. I just saw the Tyrion actor on re-runs of Nip/Tuck and he will be great for the role. A season 1 has to be a shoe-in.

PostPosted:Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:04 pm
by Eric
Keep your eye out for a torrent leak, AND REPORT BACK HERE DAMN YOU ALL.

PostPosted:Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:10 pm
by Lox
I don't have a subscription to HBO, so I'll need to find some way to watch it as it airs. :)

PostPosted:Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:55 am
by SineSwiper
Still waiting for my Preacher series...

PostPosted:Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:27 pm
by Flip
Lox wrote:The casting is spectacular, imo.
I'm a little worries about Sean Bean. The only roles ive seen him do have been bad guys, hopefully he gets the attitude right to play the hard but fair and likeable Ned Stark.

Also, the guy who is playing Robert, Mark Addy, i only remember from A Knights tale. Robert is supposed to be a 6'6 beast of a war machine who just gets fat while being king. Addy is a little too always fat looking, to me, to command that sort of respect...

I'm being super nit picky, i'm sure it will turn out awesome.

PostPosted:Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:38 pm
by Shellie
I heard about this series from a friend but I never picked it up. I guess I need to now?

Someone give me a synopsis?

PostPosted:Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:09 pm
by Lox
Sean Bean had a bit of the noble thing going in the first LotR movie, so I think he can do it. He just has to be even-tempered and cold, which is his normal bad guy technique. :)

I have only seen Addy in that sitcom he was in called Still Standing. He can do the "jolly Robert", I think. We'll see about the gruff, angry Robert. At least he never needs to play stout, strong Robert. :)

Serephina, I just copied the synopsis from Wiki cuz it's pretty good.
The story of A Song of Ice and Fire takes place in a fictional world, primarily upon a continent called Westeros but also on a large landmass to the east, known as Essos.[4] Most of the characters are human but as the series progresses other races are introduced, such as the cold and menacing Others from the far North and fire-breathing dragons from the East, both races thought to be extinct by the people of the story. There are three principal storylines in the series: the chronicling of a dynastic civil war for control of Westeros between several competing families; the rising threat of the Others who dwell beyond an immense wall of ice that forms Westeros' northern border; and the journey of Daenerys Targaryen, the exiled daughter of a king who was murdered in another civil war fifteen years previously (War of the Usurper) and now seeks to return to Westeros and claim her rightful throne. As the series progresses, all three storylines become intensely interwoven and dependent on each other.
The writing is really well done and the characters are all so real. I love the way certain characters have slowly changed over the course of the current 4 books. Martin's writing makes it all feel so natural.

The story is told in 3rd person from a different viewpoint per chapter. There are usually 10 or so viewpoints per book that he rotates through.