Saturday, June 9, 2018
AV Club discusses books as TV series
AV Club discusses books as TV series
Over at Tower of the Hand theyve posted a link to an article on AV Club that discusses the seeming trend within the television industry to turn books into TV series. In it they touch on Game of Thrones and evaluate its chances at being a successful television series. Here is what they had to say:
A Song of Ice and Fire (HBO, ordered to pilot): Based on George R.R. Martin�s lengthy, long-delayed epic fantasy series (planned to sprawl over seven books), Song is the potential series that has most excited both book and TV fans, if Internet buzz is any indication. Martin�s series, indeed, seems like a good fit for HBO (the network initially described it as �The Sopranos in Middle-Earth�), and the author, a former TV writer, will be intimately involved in turning the novels into a series. Each book will equal one season of the show, and the first announced bit of casting (Peter Dinklage as Tyrion) seems almost too good to be true. The books are dense but not so dense that their events can�t easily be conveyed in a 12 episode TV season, and the plots are intriguing with well-drawn characters. That said, the big question here is going to be expense. Once the series leaves the rather intimate first novel behind, will it have the ratings to justify the money needed to build the worlds of the later novels? Chances of succeeding: Solid
Winter Is Coming: Nice to see even more mainstream articles on Thrones popping up. Also nice to see them noticing the Internet buzz. HBO has to be liking the amount of hype this project is receiving, especially with it still so early in the game. Now, like I said, they just need to keep the hype train rolling with some big casting announcements!
