



Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Game of Thrones is adapted from George R. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. But yes, like everyone, I have long stopped waiting for Winds of Winter by now.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Regardless of all this drama, and even with how Game of Thrones ended, I am still looking forward to seeing what HBO and the team has come up with. Supposedly Martin did a whole lot of consulting for House of the Dragon, and this is not a Weiss and Benioff project.

But I also really cannot take Martin at his word here with such a glaring contradiction in place, and how many promises he’s made about Winds over the years when he seems to be doing absolutely anything else. I certainly agree that Weiss and Benioff destroyed the legacy they built with very bad, post-book content for the final few seasons of Game of Thrones. It's hard to know who to really trust here. It does seem disingenuous for him to say now that he was iced out by the showrunners when he originally said that he was moving away from the show to focus on writing Winds of Winter, which he has still not even come close to finishing, it seems. My energies are best devoted to WINDS.”Īgain, this is 2015, eight years ago, and we appear to be no closer to the release of Winds of Winter than we were back then, with Martin having blown so many deadlines at this point it’s just a meme in the industry and among Game of Thrones fans. Weiss, and Bryan Cogman on board, the scriptwriting chores for season six should be well covered. Writing a season six script would cost me a month's work on WINDS, and maybe as much as six weeks, and I cannot afford that. And really, it would cost me more time than that, since I have never been good at changing gears from one medium to another and back again. Writing a script takes me three weeks, minimum, and longer when it is not a straight adaptation from the novels. “After wrestling with it for a month or so, I've decided not to script an episode for season six of GAME OF THRONES. This was from a blog post back in March of 2015, and this is what Martin said about the situation:
