George RR Martin

George R.R. Martin Wants to Make Sure You Know Exactly How Involved He Is in Who Fears Death

When news broke yesterday that HBO had optioned Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death as a television series and that George R. R. Martin was set to serve as an executive producer, more than a few eyebrows were raised for a couple of different reasons. On the one hand, it’s exciting to learn that the World…

I Have Waited 20 Years for This Season of Game of Thrones

This is not an exaggeration. These are not the whining words of a nerd who hated the year-plus wait between seasons six and seven of Game of Thrones. I have literally waited 20 years for Daenerys to get her Targaryen ass to Westeros and for the final battles of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy to…

HBO and George R.R. Martin Set To Produce Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death TV Series

We’ve known for some time that Nnedi Okorafor’s World Fantasy Award-winning novel Who Fears Death was being adapted into a live action project, but the author took to her Facebook page this morning to share news about where we can eventually expect to see it. Though it was initially planned to become a feature-length film, Who…

Game of Thrones’ Final Season Is Going to Be Very, Very Short, Like Arya

The past six seasons of Game of Thrones have all managed to spread their stories of love, lust, murder, and war over uniform sets of 10 episodes each. Season seven’s shaking things up a bit by cutting down its episode count down to seven (the Faith of the Seven will be pleased,) but a new…

GRRM Sets the Record Straight About HBO’s Five(!) Potential Game of Thrones Spin-Offs

Even though Games of Thrones will conclude after its eighth season next year, HBO is currently developing a whole mess of new shows set in Westeros. In a new Livejournal post, though, George R.R. Martin sheds new light on the five pilot scripts in the works and explains why he doesn’t like calling the projects…

Syfy’s Plan to Save Itself: Harry Potter, Comic Books, and George R.R. Martin

For years now—since around the time the channel purposefully misspelled its name from Sci Fi to Syfy—the former home of science fiction on television has been something of a joke. And now the channel and its owners at NBC think they can save it. At an event Tuesday evening in New York, NBC Universal Cable…

HBO Holds Game of Thrones Season 8 Renewal in Hopes of More Episodes

It looks like there’s a reason HBO hasn’t formally renewed Game of Thrones for its eighth and final season, even though everyone and their grandmother knows it’s coming. That’s because the creators might be considering more episodes, and HBO is crossing their fingers that it’s true. Last year, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss announced…

George R.R. Martin Just Wants This Sad, Death-Filled Year to End

Like many of us, George R.R. Martin is ready for 2016 to be over. In a blog post Tuesday evening, the A Song of Ice and Fire creator mourned the dual loss of actor Carrie Fisher and writer Richard Adams, praising the latter’s dystopian children’s tale Watership Down as “one of the three great fantasy…

George R.R. Martin’s Idea for a Game of Thrones/Westworld Crossover Makes a Ton of Sense

Actually, George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones/Westworld crossover plan makes more sense than the actual show. His idea is that there’s a Game of Thrones World next to the Westworld park. And there should be one. Because we all know, with the state of creative capitalism being what it is, that the first totally immersive,…

An Even Bigger George R.R. Martin Universe Could Be Coming to TV

Game of Thrones is ending in two years, but George R.R. Martin isn’t done with television yet. In fact, he says an even bigger world is on the way. Martin posted on his LiveJournal Saturday that Universal Cable Productions (part of NBC Universal) has acquired the rights to adapt his long-running anthology series Wild Cards.…

George R.R. Martin Shares a Peek at A Game of Thrones‘ Illustrated 20th Anniversary Edition

“It has been a helluva 20 years,” George R.R. Martin reflects in his latest Not a Blog post, marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of a little something called A Game of Thrones. The author celebrates his landmark book with a special new edition, with an intro by John Hodgman and dozens of gorgeous…

Superfan George R.R. Martin Thinks ‘Outlander Was Robbed’ of Emmy Noms

There are more than a few Game of Thrones fans who wish that George R.R. Martin would lock himself in a room and finish the damn Winds of Winter already, especially now that the TV show has overtaken the events of the books. And now we have yet another distraction to blame for this delay:…

The Many Ways George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, and Other Creators Defend Killing Their Characters

We live in a time where it is easier than ever to complain about a plot development you don’t like. Writers, directors, creators—they’re all asked constantly about the deaths of their characters, but they all have their reasons. It’s just some are more acceptable than others. For Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the reason to kill…

George R.R. Martin is setting aside all other writing work until he finishes The Winds of Winter, the infinitely anticipated next installment of A Song of Ice and Fire. The author announced this on his blog in the comments of this post. There’s still no ETA on when the book might be done, but he’s…

It Turns Out the Next Game of Thrones Book Isn’t Late at All

I know a lot of people were bummed out when author George R.R. Martin finally confessed that the much-anticipated fifth in his A Song of Ice and Fire series wouldn’t be out before the sixth season of Game of Thrones. But it turns out the long-delayed book may actually be right on time. The Washington…

George R.R. Martin’s Novella About a Werewolf Collections Agent May Become a TV Show

Now that we’re five seasons deep into Game of Thrones, another George R.R. Martin story may be coming to television: The Skin Trade, Martin’s 1989 novella about a detective trying to solve a gruesome murder case and a collections agent who suffers from lycanthropy. Over on his blog, Martin has announced that Cinemax has optioned…

The Best Things George R.R. Martin Created (That Aren’t Game of Thrones)

Creating an epic, sprawling fantasy series like A Song of Ice and Fire seems like an author’s life’s work, but it’s certainly not the only thing George R.R. Martin has achieved. His short stories and novels were taking us to amazing worlds long before we visited Westeros. Here are some of his best non-Game of…

What If Game Of Thrones Was A Saturday-Morning Cartoon?

As imagined by Conan, it would be called Lil’ Thrones, and it would be raunchy and violent and probably wonderful. Check out the (obviously tongue-in-cheek) musical number, complete with deadpan George R. R. Martin intro, below. Valar morghulis, kids!

With a range of culprits that include molten gold, a shadow demon, and the Hound’s sword, here’s an illustrated guide to all 456 deaths on Game of Thrones, seasons one through four (animals included). For kicks, the infographic also breaks down the deadliest locations and the deadliest killers.

George R.R. Martin Is Developing A New HBO Show Called Captain Cosmos!

George R.R. Martin isn’t writing for seasons five or six of Game of Thrones — but that doesn’t mean we won’t see more stuff from him on HBO. In a new interview, Martin reveals he’s developing a new show called Captain Cosmos. But he also revealed that a major twist could be coming in the…