A Game of Thrones to hit the small screen!!!

[fatolaf]

Book One of the Epic series, A Game of Thrones is coming to TV next year from the makers of Rome and The Tudors and produced by HBO, this is going to be a class affair!

Check out the cast list, a staggering array of talent (except for Sean Bean  )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH-WLvyWAAE

And here are the offical teaser trailers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVytEgSO0wQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAZzCFPcLoo&feature=channel

And an interview with the main man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjY6QnOPcoI&feature=channel

All I Can say is  I am rather ******** excited about this....

[Draig]

Known about this one for a while and wary. HBO do very good drama, but I'll likely be giving it a miss. Unless they get a lot of things absolutely perfect I'll likely be dissapointed, and they have some hard decisions to make about toning down some of the adult material. Seems like something that would need a Lord of the Rings style budget to really pull off. If enough people I know tell me it's excellent I'll likely have a look though.

[Mike]

It'll be rubbish...

After all the hype, all the trailers.. all the Promo's...

Episode 1:

Camera swoops through a snow coloured forest.... a startled deer flees between the frozen trees.  Camera now pans to a castle... sweeping up its majestic walls and through a window.

Scene : Throne Room.
Setting : A Large oak table, at which we see 2 men sitting.

*Sean Bean shuffles some cards....*
"you to go 1st I believe"

Game of Thrones.... its actually just 8 hours of Sean Bean playing AGoT!!

2012 : AGoT II
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[Draig]

One does not simply walk into my discard pile!

[fatolaf]

and they have some hard decisions to make about toning down some of the adult material.

Did you watch the first series of Rome?
Rape, Incest, Buggery, Sex everywhere.. I think they can cope with the demands of AGOT

Plus the Tudors aint exactly for kids...

Seems like something that would need a Lord of the Rings style budget to really pull off.

Their budget for Rome was huge but it proved too high brow for US viewers  and the advertisers pulled the plug. The budget for this is meant to be three times the size and therefore one of the biggest ever for a tv show of it's type, due to the massive fan base of the books...

If enough people I know tell me it's excellent I'll likely have a look though.

I will dont you worry....

You are always going to have a problem with giving a loved book a face, so to speak, look at the uproar from Tolkien and Potter fans over how the films treated the source material. However both came out alright in the end. The books are the books, and the shows/ films should be viewed differently IMO..

I think the chance just to have a fantasy TV show on mainstream should be applauded, not many good ones around and something very different from all the bloody Vampire shows / pics that seem to dominate at the moment...

With that cast, I suspect we are going to have something rather special on our hands, that will also attract new readers / players to the books, boardgames, cardgames etc....

[Mike]

With that cast, I suspect we are going to have something rather special on our hands, that will also attract new readers / players to the books, boardgames, cardgames etc....

He said with dollar signs appearing in his eyes cartoon stylee..

$_$

[Draig]

Did you watch the first series of Rome?
Rape, Incest, Buggery, Sex everywhere.. I think they can cope with the demands of AGOT

I did. I wasn't a fan of Rome at all, past the first 3-4 episodes of season 1. Rome was pure big budget hedonism. It reveled in its rape and incest and violence and budget and all the finery that comes with those things at the expense of character development and plot. It shoved all its scandal in your face in a very gaudy and graceless way and I found very little high brow about it at all, I'll be honest. Season 2 I thought was a massive step down from Season 1 as well. Also I'm pretty sure it was cancelled because of budget, not because of the US not able to appreciate it. It got very good reviews in America.

AGoT needs a much more delicate touch for me. I'm sure it'll be a good watch and, like you say will probably draw a lot of people in. HBO are the people to pull it off if it can be done, as The Wire and Band of Brothers were ace. I'm just unlikely to ever choose to watch a TV series of a book I've already read over starting a new Fantasy series, push come to shove. But I accept that I'm strange on that front.

[fatolaf]

Oh I agree about series 2, was not a patch on the first, was very toned down and lost its sparkle.

But I do remeber reading at the time that even though ti had got good reviews, it was down to the costs + the dwindling audience that caused it's demise..

As for AGOT, lets just see what happens, you never know, it could be brilliant! 

[Nick]

Woot! Lena Headey. Also I rather like Roxanne McKee, Hollyoaks notwithstanding. Very upset that wikipaedia tells me Jennifer Ehle has dropped out of this though. Had a massive, MASSIVE, teenage crush on her. (Anyone else remember the Camomile Lawn? Truly spectacular shirt potatoes.)





Yeah, I admit it, I must be the only fantasy-geek who's read the books and really don't give a sh*t about this - other than as far as some of my particular crushes will have an opportunity to get naked. There is lots of sex in the books, right? I read them, thought they were a bit gash, and never finished the series. Now can't remember what they were about.


[Edit: Just realised I'm slagging off a series Ol's a huge fan of ... please don't ban me!]

[maelzch]

I think you'll manage to avoid a ban simply due to the use of the phrase "shirt potatoes"!

[fatolaf]

Camomile lawn was great and so were the shirt potatoes! Some great lines in that series, non that be repeated here

[maelzch]

the poster has been released for this:

Link

[Blotthrower]

For those into the books A Dance with Dragons is out (possibly) later in the year:

http://www.georgerrmartin.com/if-update.html

Very excited! (too excited possibly...)

[fatolaf]

For those into the books A Dance with Dragons is out (possibly) later in the year:

Out in July buddy, confirmed now...

[Draig]

I love the note at the end of Feast... That was a hard book. Reason it was split in terms of characters was because it was going to be so huge, but don't worry, the next one will be out shortly, likely next year. George RR Martin, 2005.

[Blotthrower]

, I remember that now, I can't believe its been six years since the last one... I went and got the book signed by the man himself (why he'd do a book signing in Nottingham I'll never know....).

From what he's saying though it should be a bit of a monster, the same size as storm of swords!