On March 18 2014 22:15 c0ldfusion wrote: Aging the Stark children for TV collectively is fine. The real problem is that each season takes a year to shot and air while the source material progresses much slower. This rate mismatch will cause incongruities especially with Arya.
Bran was 11 when they started filming and looked like a kid and now he's turning 15 and it was definitely noticeable last season.
They could film Lord of the Rings style, with multiple seasons filmed at the same time, but they said they couldn't write the scripts fast enough to do that, and it wouldn't help once they ran out of books as far as George trying to stay ahead of them.
At the same time Martin said that originally he was going to have a five year gap between what happens at the end of this season, and the next season, but he found that he had to do so many flash backs and explanations of what happened during that time gap that it didn't work. Martin said that if he knew that he wouldn't be adding that time gap, he would have aged all the characters some at the start, so older characters isn't all bad.
It's pretty much a given that GoT is going to finish the story before GRRM. The producers have stated they do not wish to go beyond 7 or 8 seasons, as the kids are getting older, and they simply do not want to be one of those series which just drag on forever.
Martin takes a long time to write books. It's been 3 years since the release of ADWD, and as of the end of last year, Martin said he was about close to halfway done. He also said the next book will be longer than the fifth, which was already longer than ASoS I believe...
In any case, I don't believe GRRM will finish in time. We'll just get the ending from the show, and people can choose to not watch it until the last two books are released.
I'm sort of iffy about it. They'd have to get an excellent director (Peter Jackson anyone?), and they'd have to get the exact same cast, which is actually a challenge considering the few recasts they already did.
I'm sort of iffy about it. They'd have to get an excellent director (Peter Jackson anyone?), and they'd have to get the exact same cast, which is actually a challenging considering the few recasts they already did.
I'm sort of iffy about it. They'd have to get an excellent director (Peter Jackson anyone?), and they'd have to get the exact same cast, which is actually a challenging considering the few recasts they already did.
firefly did it and that was alright
Serenity was more of an attempt to scrape together some semblance of closure for the most heartbroken fan base in tv. I'd imagine a game of thrones movie would be much more streamlined with the series. If the series is going to end with a dragons vs white walkers vs vagina smoke monsters vs starks vs lannisters vs two brothers vs mexican armada vs a giant meteor battle royale then I'd absolutely want them to have a LOTR sized budget.
I'm sort of iffy about it. They'd have to get an excellent director (Peter Jackson anyone?), and they'd have to get the exact same cast, which is actually a challenging considering the few recasts they already did.
firefly did it and that was alright
Serenity was more of an attempt to scrape together some semblance of closure for the most heartbroken fan base in tv. I'd imagine a game of thrones movie would be much more streamlined with the series. If the series is going to end with a dragons vs white walkers vs vagina smoke monsters vs starks vs lannisters vs two brothers vs mexican armada vs a giant meteor battle royale then I'd absolutely want them to have a LOTR sized budget.
Hell i would watch that for sure...
I dont think a (big screen) movie to end it would be realistic, you cant fit 7-8 seasons of story in a 15 - 30 minute prolog. No one besides hardcore GoT fans would understand the movie. A spin of could be more realistic like the one mentioned in the linked article.
I think the very last episode will be more a calm one, with things like tying up the ends of the sideplots, showing what happend too the remaining characters after that and of course the ultimate king who will rule the world and who... ... falls down the stairs the next day and dies. And the last line will be Tyrion saying "well poop, we have to do that again from the start". Or something like that.