Anyway, I also think it’s kind of funny that Game of Thrones is actually being produced, when you consider a bit of history. You see, following the demise of the Beauty and the Beast TV show, on which GRRM worked as a writer, he spent many years in Hollywood developing ideas and writing scripts, none of which were ever made. Finally, fed up with this, and fed up with the fact that studio execs were always telling him that his ideas would be too expensive to film — too many sets, too many characters — he returned to writing novels, where you can have as many “sets” and characters as you want, and he purposely set out to take advantage of the freedom of prose fiction to write something huge and epic, something with dozens of locations and hundreds of characters. So what does Hollywood do then? Why, they want to produce that one, of course.
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