George RR Martin is known for taking his time over his books. But he has teased fans with a rough date for the release of Winds Of Winter, the sixth book in the series that the Game Of Thrones series is based on.
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It has been teased for the best part of 2017 that George’s sixth and final epic would be coming this year – and he’s notoriously kept fans waiting while he writes the adventure.
Martin is notoriously slow with his book-writing, to the point where the HBO show is now moving faster than his fiction is being published.
The television adaptation is now going to finish before the books reach their conclusion, because Martin has unusually agreed to work on totally new episodes of the show before writing them up in print.
But taking to his blog on Monday, he wrote: ‘I do think you will have a Westeros book from me in 2018… and who knows, maybe two. A boy can dream.’
According to The Sun, the author said that the show would parallel Game Of Thrones the TV show: ‘Winds will be different in some ways, but will parallel the show in others.
‘At this point, there are probably a dozen characters who are dead on the show but alive in the books, so it would be impossible for the two to remain the same.
(Also, of course, there are characters in the books who have never even existed on the show, like Victarion Greyjoy, Jon Connington, Penny, Arianne Martell… ).’
With Game Of Thrones season 7 leaving people on tenterhooks,work will actually begin on the eighth series of the HBO show this October.
New details about the final season of Game of Thrones have emerged from one of the long-running fantasy show’s stars.
Speaking to Collider, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister, let slip that the cast will soon be back at work.
‘I knew what was going to happen for the first three seasons. After that, it’s been a season at a time,’ he revealed.
‘You get the scripts a month before we start shooting, or six weeks, and then you know what’s going to happen that season.
‘But, I don’t know what’s going to happen next season. We go back in October, so maybe in the next few weeks, we’ll get the scripts and I’ll find out. I’m very curious.’
Furthermore, in June, there were reports that that each episode in season eight will be feature-length.
It’s looking like HBO will beat George to the story’s conclusion – but we’ll definitely read the book regardless.
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