George RR Martin - A Song of Fire and Ice, HBO Greenlights Series Pilot Script Options

[Shan Yu]

Any GRRM fans out there? The long talked about HBO production (the first news came from way back when in 2007 in Variety) has started to move forward.... A script for the pilot episode based on his series A Song of Fire and Ice has been started... check out the 2nd story for a glimpse at it ...

From Variety:

HBO turns 'Fire' into fantasy series
Cabler acquires rights to Martin's 'Ice'
By MICHAEL FLEMING

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.

The series will begin with the 1996 first book, "A Game of Thrones," and the intention is for each novel (they average 1,000 pages each) to fuel a season's worth of episodes. Martin has nearly finished the fifth installment, but won't complete the seven-book cycle until 2011.

The author will co-exec produce the series along with Management 360's Guymon Casady and Created By's Vince Gerardis.

Martin's series has drawn comparisons to J.R.R. Tolkien, because both are period epics set in imagined lands. But Martin has eschewed Tolkien's good-vs.-evil theme in favor of flawed characters from seven noble families.

The book has a decidedly adult bent, with sex and violence comparable to series like "Rome" and "Deadwood."

"They tried for 50 years to make 'Lord of the Rings' as one movie before Peter Jackson found success making three," Martin said. "My books are bigger and more complicated, and would require 18 movies. Otherwise, you'd have to choose one or two characters."

Aside from writing the most recent draft of "Halo," Weiss recently adapted the William Gibson novel "Pattern Recognition" for WB and director Peter Weir.

Benioff and Weiss were repped by CAA and Management 360.



from monkeyfister.com

script pfd --> http://termopilas.tales-tra.com/users/pars...ilot_script.pdf



HBO Is Developing A Script For George R. R. Martin's "A Game Of Thrones"...


HBO and George R.R.Martin are developing the script for an upcoming "A Song Of Ice And Fire" series. This is the working script for "A Game Of Thrones," ASoIaF Book I.

Script (.PDF)


EXT. CLEARING - DAY
Snow drifts across the bodies of the fallen dead. Eight
corpses lie frozen on the ground-- men, women, and children,
wearing heavy furs. The wind whips through their long hair.
At the edge of the clearing, WILL (20), a young ranger
dressed all in black, surveys the grim scene from the back of
his gelding. He gathers his reins and guides his horse south.
EXT. FOREST - DUSK
Will rides hard between the towering pines, his horse’s
hooves kicking up fresh-fallen snow.
He comes to a halt and dismounts beside two tethered horses.
His comrades, GARED (50) and SER WAYMAR ROYCE (18), crouch
beside a stream, filling their skins with cold water. They
rise and look to the newcomer expectantly.
Ser Waymar is gray-eyed and graceful, with an aristocrat’s
air of command despite his youth. He wears a supple coat of
gleaming black ringmail and a lush sable cloak.
Will and Gared also wear the black of the Night’s Watch, but
their clothes are far less regal, their leather and fur
battered from hard usage. Gared wears a hood for warmth.
WILL
We should start back. They’re all
dead.
Gared offers Will his water skin and Will takes a drink.
SER WAYMAR
Any blood?
WILL
Not that I saw.
SER WAYMAR
How close did you get?
WILL
Close enough to see they was dead.
SER WAYMAR
(skeptical)
Or sleeping?
GARED
If Will says they’re dead, they’re
dead. We should head back to the
Wall.
SER WAYMAR
(with the hint of a smile)
Do the dead frighten you?
GARED
Mormont said we should track ‘em.
We tracked ‘em. They won’t trouble
us no more.
SER WAYMAR
You don’t think Mormont will ask us
how they died?
He walks toward his horse. Gared and Will exchange a troubled
glance.
EXT. EMPTY CAMP - NIGHT
Moonlight shines down on the clearing, the ashes of the
firepit, the snow-covered lean-to. If there were corpses on
the ground before, they’re gone now.
The three riders enter the camp. Their horses seem spooked,
as if they smell a predator nearby.
SER WAYMAR
Your dead men seem to have moved
camp.
Will looks around, confused. He knows what he saw.
WILL
They were here...
Spotting something shimmering on the ground near the firepit,
he walks his horse closer, dismounts and looks down.
Lying at his feet is the hilt of a steel longsword. The blade
has been shattered into a thousand shards.
Will stares at the shattered sword. He knows what this means;
the dread on his face is unmistakable.
From his horse, Gared looks at the ground. The indentations
where the bodies once lay are still visible-- as are the
faint but unmistakable footprints leading away from them.
GARED
We have to move. Now.
He is interrupted by a neigh. Will’s horse, riderless and
panicked, bolts from the camp site.
2.
Ser Waymar’s horse rears back on its hind legs, throwing its
rider to the ground before galloping after the first horse.
Gared struggles to keep his own horse under control. Ser
Waymar stands unsteadily, brushing the snow from his cloak.
WILL
(terrified)
Gods...
He’s staring into the darkness at the edge of the clearing.
Ser Waymar turns to see what the young tracker sees: a shadow
emerging from the forest.
A figure steps into the moonlight, tall and gaunt, with flesh
pale as milk. It slides toward the rangers on silent feet.
Its armor appears to be carved from ice. Its sword is
translucent, a shard of crystal so thin it almost seems to
vanish when seen edge-on.
Ser Waymar’s voice cracks like a boy’s:
SER WAYMAR
Stay where you are!
The OTHER keeps coming. Ser Waymar draws his sword with
trembling hands. Will, standing near the fire pit, and Gared,
still on horseback, draw their own swords.
The Other halts. For the first time we see its eyes, bluer
than any human eyes, a blue that burns like ice.
They emerge silently from the shadows, on all sides of the
clearing. Five of them... six... seven... their strange
swords shimmering in the moonlight.
Gared can no longer control his panicked horse; it bolts from
the clearing, ignoring its rider’s commands.
The Others watch Gared flee. They turn back to Ser Waymar and
Will and begin to advance on the young men.
As the circle closes, the Others speak to each other in a
language we’ve never heard, with voices like cracking ice.
Waymar and Will stand together, class distinctions forgotten,
two boys about to die. They steady their sword hands and
mutter quick prayers as the Others descend upon them.
CREDIT SEQUENCE

CLOSE on a pair of ancient, gnarled hands writing a message
on a small parchment scroll. The old man (we never see his
face) tightly rolls the scroll, binds it with a black ribbon,
and ties it with a leather strip to the leg of a BLACK RAVEN.
The old man lifts the raven off his desk; it flaps its dark
wings and flies out of the open chamber window.
The raven flies away from Castle Black, a large and ancient
fortress dwarfed by what lies behind it: the Wall. Older than
history, this is the 800-foot-high barrier of ice and stone
that guards the northern edge of the Seven Kingdoms.
As the raven gains altitude, the landscape below it
TRANSFORMS into a map of Westeros. The Wall is revealed to
cross the entire continent, a boundary between the Haunted
Forest to the north and the civilized lands to the south.
The raven flies south over the map, on which the cities,
regions and features of the land are named: Winterfell, the
Kingsroad, Moat Cailin, the Riverlands, the Vale of Arryn.
Occasionally the bird dips down, and the map resolves back
into reality for just long enough to give us a view of some
points of interest: Winterfell’s old stone towers, full of
cold beauty. The foreboding Eyrie castle high atop the Vale
of Arryn, a feat of montane architecture that would have been
impossible for medieval engineers.
When the raven reaches King’s Landing, the map resolves back
into reality as the bird drops down into the dirty sprawl of
the capital.
The raven flies through the open gates of the Red Keep, a
massive compound with red walls the color of blood. The bird
flies through an open window into the throne room, to land on
the Iron Throne itself-- a throne built from the hammered
swords of a thousand defeated enemies.
The raven pecks at its wings, cleaning itself after the long
journey, alone in the empty throne room.
END CREDIT SEQUENCE


Just like the original preface. Looks like the start to something really good to watch on HBO. Here's to hoping it goes into production. I just might be forced to actually buy a TV and cable for the duration of the series. Martin's series of books is absolutely stunning in it's brutal detail and story-telling, and an excellent piece of Fantasy lore. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the fantasy genre.




Glad that GRRM is attached to the deal, and hope that they stay true to the stories... apparently it will be a book per season... and anyone who has read the series knows, the books are big enough and have enough characters and plot lines for at least a full 22 episode run, if not more...

[Raycheetah]

...and will shoot in Europe or New Zealand.

Lovely places... Without heavy unionization of labor and attendant ridiculous costs. Otherwise, they could do what they did in the old days, and film in the US.

Our economy sux. ='[.]'=

[utkari02]

Sweet! Thanks for the info!

[buffyverseforeve...]

Are the books any good?


Best wishes,


Scott

[Shan Yu]

Are the books any good?


Best wishes,


Scott

the books kick some serious ass, iffn you like fantasy novels that is...

[buffyverseforeve...]

Cool-thanks :)


Best wishes,


Scott

[BitsyBoo]

Any GRRM fans out there? The long talked about HBO production (the first news came from way back when in 2007 in Variety) has started to move forward.... A script for the pilot episode based on his series A Song of Fire and Ice has been started... check out the 2nd story for a glimpse at it ...

From Variety:

HBO turns 'Fire' into fantasy series
Cabler acquires rights to Martin's 'Ice'
By MICHAEL FLEMING

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.

The series will begin with the 1996 first book, "A Game of Thrones," and the intention is for each novel (they average 1,000 pages each) to fuel a season's worth of episodes. Martin has nearly finished the fifth installment, but won't complete the seven-book cycle until 2011.

The author will co-exec produce the series along with Management 360's Guymon Casady and Created By's Vince Gerardis.

Martin's series has drawn comparisons to J.R.R. Tolkien, because both are period epics set in imagined lands. But Martin has eschewed Tolkien's good-vs.-evil theme in favor of flawed characters from seven noble families.

The book has a decidedly adult bent, with sex and violence comparable to series like "Rome" and "Deadwood."

"They tried for 50 years to make 'Lord of the Rings' as one movie before Peter Jackson found success making three," Martin said. "My books are bigger and more complicated, and would require 18 movies. Otherwise, you'd have to choose one or two characters."

Aside from writing the most recent draft of "Halo," Weiss recently adapted the William Gibson novel "Pattern Recognition" for WB and director Peter Weir.

Benioff and Weiss were repped by CAA and Management 360.



from monkeyfister.com

script pfd --> http://termopilas.tales-tra.com/users/pars...ilot_script.pdf



HBO Is Developing A Script For George R. R. Martin's "A Game Of Thrones"...


HBO and George R.R.Martin are developing the script for an upcoming "A Song Of Ice And Fire" series. This is the working script for "A Game Of Thrones," ASoIaF Book I.

Script (.PDF)


EXT. CLEARING - DAY
Snow drifts across the bodies of the fallen dead. Eight
corpses lie frozen on the ground-- men, women, and children,
wearing heavy furs. The wind whips through their long hair.
At the edge of the clearing, WILL (20), a young ranger
dressed all in black, surveys the grim scene from the back of
his gelding. He gathers his reins and guides his horse south.
EXT. FOREST - DUSK
Will rides hard between the towering pines, his horse’s
hooves kicking up fresh-fallen snow.
He comes to a halt and dismounts beside two tethered horses.
His comrades, GARED (50) and SER WAYMAR ROYCE (18), crouch
beside a stream, filling their skins with cold water. They
rise and look to the newcomer expectantly.
Ser Waymar is gray-eyed and graceful, with an aristocrat’s
air of command despite his youth. He wears a supple coat of
gleaming black ringmail and a lush sable cloak.
Will and Gared also wear the black of the Night’s Watch, but
their clothes are far less regal, their leather and fur
battered from hard usage. Gared wears a hood for warmth.
WILL
We should start back. They’re all
dead.
Gared offers Will his water skin and Will takes a drink.
SER WAYMAR
Any blood?
WILL
Not that I saw.
SER WAYMAR
How close did you get?
WILL
Close enough to see they was dead.
SER WAYMAR
(skeptical)
Or sleeping?
GARED
If Will says they’re dead, they’re
dead. We should head back to the
Wall.
SER WAYMAR
(with the hint of a smile)
Do the dead frighten you?
GARED
Mormont said we should track ‘em.
We tracked ‘em. They won’t trouble
us no more.
SER WAYMAR
You don’t think Mormont will ask us
how they died?
He walks toward his horse. Gared and Will exchange a troubled
glance.
EXT. EMPTY CAMP - NIGHT
Moonlight shines down on the clearing, the ashes of the
firepit, the snow-covered lean-to. If there were corpses on
the ground before, they’re gone now.
The three riders enter the camp. Their horses seem spooked,
as if they smell a predator nearby.
SER WAYMAR
Your dead men seem to have moved
camp.
Will looks around, confused. He knows what he saw.
WILL
They were here...
Spotting something shimmering on the ground near the firepit,
he walks his horse closer, dismounts and looks down.
Lying at his feet is the hilt of a steel longsword. The blade
has been shattered into a thousand shards.
Will stares at the shattered sword. He knows what this means;
the dread on his face is unmistakable.
From his horse, Gared looks at the ground. The indentations
where the bodies once lay are still visible-- as are the
faint but unmistakable footprints leading away from them.
GARED
We have to move. Now.
He is interrupted by a neigh. Will’s horse, riderless and
panicked, bolts from the camp site.
2.
Ser Waymar’s horse rears back on its hind legs, throwing its
rider to the ground before galloping after the first horse.
Gared struggles to keep his own horse under control. Ser
Waymar stands unsteadily, brushing the snow from his cloak.
WILL
(terrified)
Gods...
He’s staring into the darkness at the edge of the clearing.
Ser Waymar turns to see what the young tracker sees: a shadow
emerging from the forest.
A figure steps into the moonlight, tall and gaunt, with flesh
pale as milk. It slides toward the rangers on silent feet.
Its armor appears to be carved from ice. Its sword is
translucent, a shard of crystal so thin it almost seems to
vanish when seen edge-on.
Ser Waymar’s voice cracks like a boy’s:
SER WAYMAR
Stay where you are!
The OTHER keeps coming. Ser Waymar draws his sword with
trembling hands. Will, standing near the fire pit, and Gared,
still on horseback, draw their own swords.
The Other halts. For the first time we see its eyes, bluer
than any human eyes, a blue that burns like ice.
They emerge silently from the shadows, on all sides of the
clearing. Five of them... six... seven... their strange
swords shimmering in the moonlight.
Gared can no longer control his panicked horse; it bolts from
the clearing, ignoring its rider’s commands.
The Others watch Gared flee. They turn back to Ser Waymar and
Will and begin to advance on the young men.
As the circle closes, the Others speak to each other in a
language we’ve never heard, with voices like cracking ice.
Waymar and Will stand together, class distinctions forgotten,
two boys about to die. They steady their sword hands and
mutter quick prayers as the Others descend upon them.
CREDIT SEQUENCE

CLOSE on a pair of ancient, gnarled hands writing a message
on a small parchment scroll. The old man (we never see his
face) tightly rolls the scroll, binds it with a black ribbon,
and ties it with a leather strip to the leg of a BLACK RAVEN.
The old man lifts the raven off his desk; it flaps its dark
wings and flies out of the open chamber window.
The raven flies away from Castle Black, a large and ancient
fortress dwarfed by what lies behind it: the Wall. Older than
history, this is the 800-foot-high barrier of ice and stone
that guards the northern edge of the Seven Kingdoms.
As the raven gains altitude, the landscape below it
TRANSFORMS into a map of Westeros. The Wall is revealed to
cross the entire continent, a boundary between the Haunted
Forest to the north and the civilized lands to the south.
The raven flies south over the map, on which the cities,
regions and features of the land are named: Winterfell, the
Kingsroad, Moat Cailin, the Riverlands, the Vale of Arryn.
Occasionally the bird dips down, and the map resolves back
into reality for just long enough to give us a view of some
points of interest: Winterfell’s old stone towers, full of
cold beauty. The foreboding Eyrie castle high atop the Vale
of Arryn, a feat of montane architecture that would have been
impossible for medieval engineers.
When the raven reaches King’s Landing, the map resolves back
into reality as the bird drops down into the dirty sprawl of
the capital.
The raven flies through the open gates of the Red Keep, a
massive compound with red walls the color of blood. The bird
flies through an open window into the throne room, to land on
the Iron Throne itself-- a throne built from the hammered
swords of a thousand defeated enemies.
The raven pecks at its wings, cleaning itself after the long
journey, alone in the empty throne room.
END CREDIT SEQUENCE


Just like the original preface. Looks like the start to something really good to watch on HBO. Here's to hoping it goes into production. I just might be forced to actually buy a TV and cable for the duration of the series. Martin's series of books is absolutely stunning in it's brutal detail and story-telling, and an excellent piece of Fantasy lore. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the fantasy genre.




Glad that GRRM is attached to the deal, and hope that they stay true to the stories... apparently it will be a book per season... and anyone who has read the series knows, the books are big enough and have enough characters and plot lines for at least a full 22 episode run, if not more...

Excellent. If Hollywood can't support anything original, there is a wealth of good writing and story ideas in the fantasy genre.

[RaiderDave2112]

This is one fantasy series I have never got around to reading, I might just give it a go. One series I would like to see made would be the Wheel Of Time series by Robert Jordan. (hopefully the new author should be releasing the last book this year.)

[BitsyBoo]

This is one fantasy series I have never got around to reading, I might just give it a go. One series I would like to see made would be the Wheel Of Time series by Robert Jordan. (hopefully the new author should be releasing the last book this year.)

I started both but gave up after a few books. Robert Jordan's first book was awesome, and I liked his ideas, but his interpersonal relationships were boring and lacking in depth to me after the first few books. I don't remember why I gave up on the other series.

[Raycheetah]

I started both but gave up after a few books. Robert Jordan's first book was awesome, and I liked his ideas, but his interpersonal relationships were boring and lacking in depth to me after the first few books. I don't remember why I gave up on the other series.

I always resisted Wheel of Time simply because it was SO trendy.

That, and I saw Robert Jordan speak at Dragon*Con. Ghods, the man droned! If he wrote like he spoke, I can see what you mean about the characters! No way I was gonna commit to twelve THICK books like that!

=@[.]@=

[RaiderDave2112]

I started both but gave up after a few books. Robert Jordan's first book was awesome, and I liked his ideas, but his interpersonal relationships were boring and lacking in depth to me after the first few books. I don't remember why I gave up on the other series.

That has always been my bugbear about the series, however the overall series is good enough to see me through the 11 books that RJ wrote and hopefully that last book.

[BitsyBoo]

That has always been my bugbear about the series, however the overall series is good enough to see me through the 11 books that RJ wrote and hopefully that last book.

We seem to have similar taste. I'll have to try the other series again.

[BitsyBoo]

I always resisted Wheel of Time simply because it was SO trendy.

That, and I saw Robert Jordan speak at Dragon*Con. Ghods, the man droned! If he wrote like he spoke, I can see what you mean about the characters! No way I was gonna commit to twelve THICK books like that!

=@[.]@=

His books were dense, but filled with the details that make fantasy so much better in books than in movies. The first book was really good, but I lost interest in the characters a few books into it. If you can accept that then you could read the first few books with enjoyment.

[Shan Yu]

This is one fantasy series I have never got around to reading, I might just give it a go. One series I would like to see made would be the Wheel Of Time series by Robert Jordan. (hopefully the new author should be releasing the last book this year.)

The GRRM books are a good read... they are slightly less than epic in scope, but he does a great job filling out the histories of the peoples in his story, which helps create a nice deep well to draw from... definately worth the read RaiderDave... and i agree, Wheel of time would be great, but the books are so large, im not sure how it could be done and the scope of the work kept intact...

I started both but gave up after a few books. Robert Jordan's first book was awesome, and I liked his ideas, but his interpersonal relationships were boring and lacking in depth to me after the first few books. I don't remember why I gave up on the other series.

I always resisted Wheel of Time simply because it was SO trendy.

That, and I saw Robert Jordan speak at Dragon*Con. Ghods, the man droned! If he wrote like he spoke, I can see what you mean about the characters! No way I was gonna commit to twelve THICK books like that!

=@[.]@=

I have read all 12 Wheel of Time books so far (yes, 12... 11 in the series and the New Spring Dawning precursor)... the length, scope and the interpersonal relationships in the books arent really a distraction for me... some books were great, some good, some not so good... but thats to be expected in such a large series... what has ticked me off about the series is the fact that i started reading it more than 20 years ago... over TWO DECADES...