UPDATE: This feature now includes events through Game of Thrones: Season 5.
Warning: Spoilers for HBO's Game of Thrones Seasons 1-5 follow - as well as how certain events differ from all of George R. R. Martin's books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.
When it comes to adapting a beloved book, or book series, to the screen, there's simply no pleasing everyone. Once called "unfilmable" by author George R. R. Martin himself, the book series that HBO's Game of Thrones is based on was written with a specific disregard for adaptation/production budget; allowing for certain luxury of content and scope. Of course, HBO and EP's David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have found a way to successfully adapt (with Martin's blessing and producer credit) the dense, layered material depicting the addictively brutal power struggles found in the fantasy realms of Westeros and Essos.
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Warning: Spoilers for HBO's Game of Thrones Seasons 1-5 follow - as well as how certain events differ from all of George R. R. Martin's books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.
When it comes to adapting a beloved book, or book series, to the screen, there's simply no pleasing everyone. Once called "unfilmable" by author George R. R. Martin himself, the book series that HBO's Game of Thrones is based on was written with a specific disregard for adaptation/production budget; allowing for certain luxury of content and scope. Of course, HBO and EP's David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have found a way to successfully adapt (with Martin's blessing and producer credit) the dense, layered material depicting the addictively brutal power struggles found in the fantasy realms of Westeros and Essos.
Continue reading…
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