The end is coming for Game Of Thrones, but it wont be without hope, according to George R.R. Martin.
Game Of Thrones is expected to run eight seasons before ending on its ‘own terms,’ though HBO would love to stretch it further, while a prequel series could also fill the void.
Speaking about how he plans to end his fantasy novels on which the HBO series is based, the author hinted it will be “bittersweet,” per Vulture:
“I think you need to have some hope. We all yearn for happy endings in a sense. Myself, I’m attracted to the bittersweet ending. People ask me how Game of Thrones is gonna end, and I’m not gonna tell them … but I always say to expect something bittersweet in the end, like [J.R.R. Tolkien]. I think Tolkien did this brilliantly. I didn’t understand that when I was a kid — when I read Return of the King.”
On the timeline of his writing process vs the that of the TV show, which will enter its potentially delayed sixth season in 2016:
“I’ve been hearing them come up behind me for years, and the question is, How can I make myself write faster? I think, by now, the answer is, I can’t. I write at the pace I write, and what the show is doing is not going to change what the books are,” he said, noting that the only way the TV series influences his writing is in the sense that it ratchets up his stress. “I started writing about these characters and this world in 1991, and we didn’t have the first meetings to create the show until 2008, so I got like a 17-year head start!” (To be fair, the workflow timeline is kind of incomparable when you consider the difference between a 1,500-page manuscript and a rapid-fire set of 60-page teleplays.)
Stay tuned as we continue to monitor the end status of Game Of Thrones…
Terri Cooper says
Please don’t cancel game of thrones