With Charles Dance spilling the beans that they were about to start filming Season four of Game Of Thrones (here), it looks like there’s much, much more to come…
According to fanshare, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the co-creators of Game of Thrones on HBO, have been getting chatty about the end of the show while promiting the release of Season 2 on Blu-ray and the upcoming Season 3. Apparently HBO are keen to make the series run for eight or nine Seasons: “We have the opportunity here to tell a coherent story that lasts for 80 hours. And while a canvas of that size presents all sorts of storytelling problems, it also allows us to spend more time with these characters we love than we’ll ever get again. Every once in a while we get five minutes to think about thinking about novels. But mostly we’re just happy when we get to read one now and again.”
However there is mumblings that worry has been expressed at how slowly George R. R. Martin writes the books that the series is based on. With the books at five volumes so far, the series will easily catch up in the next two years, before the final two books are finished. So either they need to be finished very quickly or the producers will need to have an idea to fill out a season or two – although one of our resident GoT fans reckons some of the later books could be split over two series…
We’ll just have to wait and see
Season 3 is set to premiere on the 31st of March In the US and April 1st in the UK.
Marc
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