Author George R. Weiss worked from details Martin shared with them about how the story will end in the novels. This means that we don't yet know exactly how A Song of Ice and Fire will end.
When HBO first ordered a series based on Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire , the plan was for all seven books to be finished well before the television series ever reached the story material from those as-of-yet unpublished novels. Sadly, things didn't go according to plan. Still, this doesn't mean we're completely in the dark about what's to come in A Song of Ice and Fire. The exact ending of the series may not be known, but Martin has previously said that the ending of HBO's Game of Thrones would be similar to that of his novels.
The tale, now at five books and counting, obviously grew in the telling. By the time the fourth book, A Feast for Crows , rolled around in , Martin split the narrative in half, temporarily setting aside many of his most popular characters to focus on new areas of his rapidly expanding world. The interval between his books has grown with each volume. Book two in the series, A Clash of Kings , was published just two years after the first book.
At the time, few readers expected the show to be a hit. It was a high-concept fantasy series based on a series of popular but still niche doorstop-sized books, airing exclusively on a pricey premium cable network best known for gritty, realism-based shows like The Wire and The Sopranos. Back when Game of Thrones started, the adaptation was also far more straightforward. The first season covered the contents of the first book, and the second season greenlit just days after the series premiered took on the second book.
The idea was that he might get A Dream of Spring done before the show got its say. That left Benioff and Weiss in their own, uncharted waters. The show had to go on, and while they could work with Martin as much as they could, they were going to be the ones to pen the ending, especially after Martin stepped down from writing episodes of the series after season 4.
Ostensibly, that was to focus more on writing The Winds of Winter. Part of the problem was simply in what George R. Martin has given the showrunners. So they have some knowledge, but the devil is in the details. But the lack of new material and the rapidly shifting timescales left Benioff and Weiss in an impossible situation. At the time of this interview, Benioff and Weiss were working on the scripts for season six.
I'll know when I get there, and then I'll see what the terrain looks like around me and I'll choose my path once I get closer to it. This interview was the first time fans were told the Benioff and Weiss had a clear ending in sight.
Many people latched onto that mountain analogy, and assumed that both the books and the show were going to go from the same point A to the same point B — it was just how they arrived there that would be different. After this interview, conventional wisdom among fans was that Martin had told the showrunners his plan for the ending, and Benioff and Weiss were just having to fill in the gaps in order to get there.
In an interview with Time magazine in ahead of the seventh season premiere, Benioff and Weiss were asked if they knew back in season two where the story would end up. Again the showrunners referenced that meeting with Martin. He had some great stuff that he could share with us, like the Hodor thing, but a lot of it, he wasn't sure yet, because he was writing, and he discovers things by writing.
The "Hodor thing" Benioff is referring too was the shocking death of Bran's companion and the revelation that "Hodor" was a name born from a traumatic greenseeing event that caused young Hodor to repeatedly scream "hold the door! A bit later in the interview, Time asked the two men: "To what degree do you feel it needs to be perfectly congruent with the vision of the endgame of the novels that Martin presented to you?
We've passed George and that's something that George always worried about — the show catching up and ultimately passing him — but the good thing about us diverging at this point is that George's books will still be a surprise for readers who have seen the show.
This sounded much different from Benioff's statement at Oxford Union, when he said the show was going to "meet up at pretty much the same place where George is going.
Especially when Benioff went on to say that there were things Martin had told them about the ending that weren't going to wind up in the show at all.
Weiss and David Benioff at a "Game of Thrones" event. Years passed as the "Game of Thrones" team spent an extended production period ramping up to the eighth and final season, and still "The Winds of Winter" remained unfinished.
With the arrival of came one new revelation: Martin himself didn't know exactly what Benioff and Weiss had in store for their version of the ending. And they weren't "entirely sure" of his. In a March feature for EW , reporter James Hibberd wrote that "the showrunners [Benioff and Weiss] note that they're not entirely sure of Martin's future storylines anyway.
To boot, Martin hadn't read the any of upcoming scripts. Which meant he didn't know Benioff and Weiss' ending. But there's a lot of minor-character [arcs] they'll be coming up with on their own. And, of course, they passed me several years ago. There may be important discrepancies. Given that Martin had stopped writing scripts for the show, it had become clear to fans that he'd stepped away somewhat from being actively engaged with the show's production.
But it came as a surprise to many to learn that he didn't know Benioff and Weiss' plans for the last six episodes. By April, EW's James Hibberd had published a longer interview with Benioff and Weiss in which they revealed for the first time that they would not be confirming or denying any differences between their ending and what Martin told them in I don't think that final book is written in stone yet — it's not written on paper yet.
As George says, he's a gardener and he's waiting to see how those seeds blossom. Again, this was a new departure from the earlier public conversations around the ending. Instead of the books and the show looking like two different paths that would wind up at the same location, now neither Martin nor the "Game of Thrones" showrunners knew for certain how aligned their endings would be. Cut to May , when the final episode of "Game of Thrones" had aired. Martin wrote a new blog post updating his followers , and addressed the show though he didn't explicitly say that he had watched the final season at all.
Well… yes. And no. And yes. Martin once again mentioned how "the butterfly effect" will be at work, and listed all the characters who never appeared in the show.
It's a silly question," Martin wrote, before bringing up his favorite rhetorical question. How about this? I'll write it. You read it. Then everyone can make up their own mind, and argue about it on the internet. The answer depends on whether you're referring to the book or the movie three and one, respectively. Best Full Guide []. Finally, this is the eyesight he sees through to the ending, instead of a hybrid. Although fans might feel frustrated with how long Martin is shooting to compose The Winds of Winter not had A Dream of Spring and besides the fact that he does not owe anyone anything , his careful and individual plotting should pay dividends in the long term.
And while Martin does have his flaws as a writer, there is more prospect of Hot Pie asserting the Iron Throne or even HBO remaking the whole show than there is of him being accused of rushing the end. Not only is that since a number of these conditions will be different, but due to the kind of those books, which graphs the storylines from particular POV characters. These conclusions will be divisive nevertheless, but Martin is a master of installations and payoffs, and that is what he will send in A Song of Ice and Fire finish that Game of Thrones did not fully handle for everybody.
What exactly have Martin and the showrunners David Benioff and D. Weiss said how tightly the books would suit the series? And have those replies changed over the past six decades?
The longer it became apparent that Martin would not complete his last two books before this series, the greater Benioff and Weiss began to talk more openly about how the series and books could end differently. George R. The End Is Finally in Sight. So no, she is not dead from the books. The series finale of this blockbuster HBO series prompted intense backlash from fans. The maps may discontinue, but the entire world does not.
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