Fans across the world are mourning because one of the most popular TV shows, Game of Thrones, has finally ended after eight years. However, most people are disappointed at the way the last season has been tackled. For a show that was hailed for outstanding cinematography, scores and larger-than-life battle scenes the finale went out with a whimper, not a bang.
But there is still hope. George RR Martin, whose A Song of Ice and Fire laid the foundation of the series, hints that his books will not end the way the series did.
In a new post on his site Not a Blog, George RR Martin recalls the first time he met the series’ directors David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and quizzed them on the foreshadowing laid out on the pages of A Song of Ice and Fire tomes. The duo’s right guesses gave birth to Game of Thrones.
Martin thanks Benioff, Weiss, writer Bryan Cogman (“the third head of the dragon”), and the cast and crew who brought his world to life. He also assured fans that he was keeping busy and looking towards the future — which includes finally publishing The Winds of Winter, the sixth novel in the Song of Ice and Fire series.
“Winter is coming, I told you, long ago… and so it is,” he writes, adding, “But it will be done. I won’t say when, I’ve tried that before, only to burn you all and jinx myself… but I will finish it, and then will come A Dream of Spring.”
Martin also goes on to say that the final product will differ from how the series ended. “ I am working in a very different medium than David and Dan, never forget. They had six hours for this final season. I expect these last two books of mine will fill 3000 manuscript pages between them before I’m done… and if more pages and chapters and scenes are needed, I’ll add them. And of course the butterfly effect will be at work as well; those of you who follow this Not A Blog will know that I’ve been talking about that since season one. There are characters who never made it onto the screen at all, and others who died in the show but still live in the books… so if nothing else, the readers will learn what happened to Jeyne Poole, Lady Stoneheart, Penny and her pig, Skahaz Shavepate, Arianne Martell, Darkstar, Victarion Greyjoy, Ser Garlan the Gallant, Aegon VI, and a myriad of other characters both great and small that viewers of the show never had the chance to meet. And yes, there will be unicorns… of a sort…”, he wrote in his blog.
The book might be a pleasant surprise for us!
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