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OFFICIAL GAME OF THRONES THREAD | HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Premieres 8.21.22 | OFFICIAL TRAILER REVEALED
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i dont think anyone in westeros likes stannis enough to call him king
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^They said that like 50 in the first season 
. Not even Robert and Renly like him.
Couldn't be worse than Joffrey tho.
. Not even Robert and Renly like him.Couldn't be worse than Joffrey tho.
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He' the King Westeros deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
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i dont think anyone in westeros likes stannis enough to call him king
I don't like him either. He's kind of a lame.
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[h1] ‘Game of Thrones': George R.R. Martin Talks HBO’s 10 Season Goal, Potential Movie[/h1]
As the promotional campaign for “Game of Thrones” season five ramps up ahead of its April 12 premiere, author George R.R. Martin has taken to his blog to address speculation about the show’s future — specifically, reports that HBO is hoping that the show will run 10 seasons, while showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss are aiming for seven.
“This discussion is nothing new, of course. I get asked similar questions every time I make a public appearance, do an interview, or walk a red carpet. My usual answer is a variant on, ‘I don’t know how many seasons the show will run.’ I don’t know. No one knows,” Martin wrote on his official LiveJournal.
“I do know that David & Dan have stated in interviews that they see the show winding up in seven seasons … I also know that HBO wants the series to run longer than that. I have known that since the very beginning… well, actually, since the day after the second episode of season one aired, when I had lunch with one of HBO’s top execs, who told me, ‘We want this to run ten years.’ I allowed that ten years sounded fine to me. I continue to hear similar sentiments from HBO every time I have meeting with them, be it in L.A. or New York,” Martin added.
The rumor mill began churning anew when EW posted an interview with HBO boss Michael Lombardo, who admitted that the possibility of ending the show at seven seasons was “horrifying” to him. “This is the hard part of what we do. We started this journey with David and Dan. It’s their vision. Would I love the show to go 10 years as both a fan and a network executive? Absolutely,” he admitted. “We’ll have an honest conversation that explores all possible avenues. If they weren’t comfortable going beyond seven seasons, I trust them implicitly and trust that’s the right decision — as horrifying as that is to me. What I’m not going to do is have a show continue past where the creators believe where they feel they’ve finished with the story.”
Martin also discussed the possibility of a “Game of Thrones” movie, which Lombardo seemed to nix during his EW interview. “When you start a series with our subscribers, the promise is that for your HBO fee that we’re going to take you to the end of this. I feel that on some level [a movie would be] changing the rules: Now you have to pay $16 to see how your show ends,” Lombardo said.
The author, naturally, had a slightly different view. “I see that this new crop of stories also raises, once again, the notion of concluding the series with one or more feature films. And in some of these stories, once again, this idea is wrongly attributed to me. Let me state, yet again, that while I love this idea, it did NOT originate with me. It was a notion suggested to me, which I have enthusiastically endorsed,” Martin clarified. “Sure, I love the idea. Why not? What fantasist would not love the idea of going out with an epic hundred million feature film? And the recent success of the Imax experience shows that the audience is there for such a movie. If we build it, they will come. But will we build it? I have no bloody idea.”
“Game of Thrones” season five premieres Sunday, April 12, at 9 p.m. on HBO.
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Why not make a movie of Robert's rebellion? Would watch 100%
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i dont think anyone in westeros likes stannis enough to call him king
Davos, that's about it.
10 seasons? That's a really long time for an HBO show to last. Maybe 8 or 9.
And GRRM still posts on livejournal? Weird. Surprised people still use it.
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I'd be cool with 7 seasons. 7 seasons, 7 books. Just works with ASOIAF.
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7 seasons. Maybe 8. Even that's pushing it tho.
I have been saying both of these for the longest.
I have been saying both of these for the longest.
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Do a flashback season like Spartacus did.
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HBO needs this,
nothing else sells on HBO or at least has a good selling point
True Blood is over
Boardwalk Empire is over
True Detective is good but not a money maker like GoT
they're practically begging to extend it
I am one who has already separated the book from the show after the 1st season.
There are a lot of directions it could go...in to the prequels, flash back. even do the history.
as far as the main story though, i feel they should end it whatever way they want (because it's not going to be the true books ending) then just recast for non asioaf stuff.
other than that I say GRRM say to hell with HBO.
nothing else sells on HBO or at least has a good selling point
True Blood is over
Boardwalk Empire is over
True Detective is good but not a money maker like GoT
they're practically begging to extend it
I am one who has already separated the book from the show after the 1st season.
There are a lot of directions it could go...in to the prequels, flash back. even do the history.
as far as the main story though, i feel they should end it whatever way they want (because it's not going to be the true books ending) then just recast for non asioaf stuff.
other than that I say GRRM say to hell with HBO.
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Boardwalk Empire was not a selling point for them. No one bought HBO subscriptions to watch Boardwalk. This and True Blood are their first true bangers since Sopranos. TBH its their fault. The guy who wrote Sopranos season 5 and 6 pitched Mad Men to em first and they turned it down and that was a HIT. I dont know how you could turn down that, especially considering who it came from.
HBO should pray to basedgod that Westworld is also a big hit cuz this aint extending to 10 seasons.
HBO should pray to basedgod that Westworld is also a big hit cuz this aint extending to 10 seasons.
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A lot of what we have been saying but still an interesting watch. Definitely some things we havent touched
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Didnt they get pitched walking dead and breaking bad also?
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If Mad Men had been on hbo then we might've not seen the greatness that is Jon Hamm as Don Draper. I hate how amc breaks their seasons into two parts though. So lame.
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mad men sucks tho.
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mad men sucks tho.
I wouldn't say that, but I could never get I to it.
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Mad Men is one of the best directed and produced shows I've ever seen. Top level everything.
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This,sad to see it ending
The Boardwalk talk up there has me sad too
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Mad Men is the best written show on television ever. Come at me bro
On HBO it would've had teddys too. Imagine seeing Christina Hendricks naked
I hate Walking Dead but I think its the most popular show in the world or something right now.
I could see how they could reject Breaking Bad. It seemed to me like they didnt know what they wanted that show to be in the first two seasons.
Either way if they were pitched these two shows and turned em down thats two massive Ls on top of the L they took on Mad Men.
On HBO it would've had teddys too. Imagine seeing Christina Hendricks naked
I hate Walking Dead but I think its the most popular show in the world or something right now.
I could see how they could reject Breaking Bad. It seemed to me like they didnt know what they wanted that show to be in the first two seasons.
Either way if they were pitched these two shows and turned em down thats two massive Ls on top of the L they took on Mad Men.
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Mad Men is the best written show on television ever. Come at me bro
On HBO it would've had teddys too. Imagine seeing Christina Hendricks naked
I hate Walking Dead but I think its the most popular show in the world or something right now.
I could see how they could reject Breaking Bad. It seemed to me like they didnt know what they wanted that show to be in the first two seasons.
Either way if they were pitched these two shows and turned em down thats two massive Ls on top of the L they took on Mad Men.
Breaking Bad was pitched, some people got fired at HBO after the show blew up for passing on it. My co-workers wife works in their headquarters and said it isn't a fun time when shows blow up on other networks after being passed by HBO. Heads roll
Contrary to popular belief, I don't think that Breaking Bad is all that. It's good, but it's not eye opening like people make it out to be. People call it the GOAT, but it has nothing on The Wire to me. It's probably because I can relate to the setting of The Wire while I can't to Albuquerque and the whole Crystal addiction and suburb life.
