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George R.R. Martin to produce adaptation of Who Fears Death for HBO

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Who Fears Death is to be adapted for television by HBO and executive produced by George R.R. Martin. The cable television network is keeping the Game of Thrones author busy these days, lining him up to oversee a new fantasy project for the company. Hoping that this will be another fantasy/drama hit for the channel, Who […]

There are FIVE Game of Thrones spinoffs in the works, according to George R.R. Martin

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It was recently announced that HBO, in collaboration with series writer George R.R. Martin, is developing four spinoffs in the Game of Thrones universe, set to follow the eight and final season of the epic fantasy series. Now, it looks like there may actually be FIVE spin-offs in the works, according to George R.R. Martin in […]

SyFy adapting George R.R. Martin novella Nightflyers

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More of George R.R. Martin’s work will be coming to television, but this time its not connected to the A Song of Ice and Fire saga or the potential four spin-offs of Game of Thrones as SyFy has announced that it will develop Martin’s novella Nightflyers with Jacob’s Ladder‘s Jeff Buhler writing and executive producing the series. Written in 1980, Nightflyers is set […]

George R.R. Martin thinks The Winds of Winter will be out this year

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For the past few years, author George R.R. Martin has refused to offer any predictions as to when we’ll see the release of The Winds of Winter, the sixth instalment of his A Song of Ice and Fire saga. However, he’s now given fans hope that we’ll see the book in our lifetimes, posting on […]

George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards heading to the small screen

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Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has announced that his superhero anthology series Wild Cards is being developed for television by Universal Cable Productions. “The shared world of the Wild Cards diverged from our own on September 15, 1946 when an alien virus was released in the skies over Manhattan, and spread across an […]

Game of Thrones: The Book Plots Lost on the Show

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Tony Black on the book plots lost in Game of Thrones… And so it begins, the great post-Game of Thrones withdrawal period, and it’s especially potent this year given how season six was arguably one of the most exciting seasons David Benioff & D.B. Weiss have ever given us. Looking ahead to the final (or […]

Game of Thrones: Winter has brought the Age of Queens

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Tony Black on Game of Thrones’ ‘Age of Queens’ (spoilers for ‘The Winds of Winter’ follow)… It began with Kings. Game of Thrones now looks set to end with Queens. The feminist revolution in Westeros truly blossomed this season and epic finale ‘The Winds of Winter’ cemented the concrete inside the stone, or perhaps more […]

Game of Thrones: The Battle is over, but Winter is Coming

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Tony Black on what could be in store for Game of Thrones in ‘The Winds of Winter’… It’s taken me a while, but I’ve managed to recover from the televisual onslaught that was Game of Thrones season six episode nine, ‘Battle of the Bastards’. Spoilers will inevitably follow for this monster, this narrative titan of […]

Game of Thrones – Season 6 Episode 8 Review – No One

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No One Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Directed by Mark Mylod Arya With a title like ‘No One’, you’d be forgiven this week’s Game of Thrones might throw quite the focus on Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), a girl who just can’t live up to the episode title, try as she might. I almost […]