for fans of GRRM...

[lagilman]

the news broke today --

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957532.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

I can see the HBO execs pitching it now... "Deadwood, only with elves! Like "Rome" only with a little less intramural sex!"

RR sounds pretty optimistic about it, although as a former inmate he knows enough about Hollyweird to be jaded and cynical in his optimism...

Comments

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

*geek flailing* It's about time.

[phatgirly.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thanks for the heads up!

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

my link didn't go to any article. What's GRRM?

[lagilman]

from 'Variety' -


HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin's bestselling fantasy series "A Song of Fire & Ice" into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

"Fire" is the first TV project for Benioff ("Troy") and Weiss ("Halo") and will shoot in Europe or New Zealand. Benioff and Weiss will write every episode of each season together save one, which the author (a former TV writer) will script.

[delkytlar.livejournal.com]

I would be so flipping excited about this show if I actually subscribed to HBO. I'll either have to get my dad to tape for me, or wait for DVD.

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Also - and I'm probably behind the curve on this - an interesting mention of a Peter Weir-directed version of Pattern Recognition... I hadn't heard of that before.