HBO: A Song of Ice & Fire

HBO is turning George R.R. Martin’s series of “A Song of Ice and Fire” fantasy novels into a TV series. The plan is to adapt one novel each season, starting with 1996’s “A Game of Thrones.”

Flist, what do you think of this? I've never read the books, and was told they were overly drawn-out and ultimately frustrating, but I've read several people on LJ talking about them.

Thoughts? Rants? Cheers?

If it is good fantasy, then I'll be happy. But the last time HBO did good fantasy, you know what happened? THEY CANCELED IT AFTER TWO SEASONS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COSMIC DUSTBOWL STATE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL WHEN WE JUST DISCOVERED THAT THE REBORN CHRIST'S TRUE HET LOVE IS IN FACT PROBABLY THE ANTICHRIST!


CARNIVALE, BITCH.


I MAY FORGIVE BUT I DON'T FORGET, HBO. Got my eye on you.

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For some unspeakable reason, I was looking at the forums for AintItCool.com and its post about the A:TLAB Shyamalan movie. Don't ask me why; I've never read the messages below the posts before, but today I did. I saw this:


I've seen "Avatar: The Last Airbender" several times with my young nephews, and for a kids show, I thought it was well-written and the animation was pretty kickass. But like all Pokemon-esque kids shows, for all of its violence, no one ever dies (not that you see, anyway), no one gets hurt, and there's never really any drama. It's kind of like GI Joe with barrels of bullets flying around, taking out buildings with impunity, but not one soldier ever takes a slug in the leg, let alone the heart. It's quite silly even though the makers of "Avatar" want everyone to take it SOOO seriously. For this reason, it'll be perfect for M. Night. I wish him good luck.


I don't think you have to take it seriously, but, dude, that makes laugh. Cause, you know, I could list the characters who've died. By now there's enough to LIST them. On-screen.


This whole movie project has me wondering, though... how will they cast it? Shyamalan is an American director and typically so far likes to cast white main characters. But here we're talking about a series that literally has no White/Caucasian characters. None. The closest characters to "white" are actually the air nomads since they're the palest "ethnicity" on the show, but I think fans would pitch a fit if Aang looked like a little white kid instead of vaguely pale Tibetan-style monk.

Just gotta hope that if it happens, they don't sell out on the casting. All the fans (young or older) would expect non-white actors, I think.