冰與火的影集
在維基百科偶然逛到的：
It was announced on Wednesday January 17, 2007 that HBO Productions
has purchased the broadcast rights for the entire A Song of Ice and
Fire Series with the author also serving as co-executive producer on
the project. The plan calls for each book from the series to be filmed
over an entire season's worth of episodes. Production will take place
in Europe or New Zealand and Martin is reported to have agreed to
script one episode per season. Further details are expected to be
announced soon.
大意是說HBO買下了冰與火的放映權，同時作者會擔任這項計畫的"co-executive-
producer"。每本書大約會拍成一季。拍攝地點在歐洲或紐西蘭(Yeah, 紐西蘭！)
作者同意每季寫一集的劇本。
哦，好想看喔 但是光介紹人物角色就很頭痛了吧
很多一開始的主角半路就掰掰了 換另一批人在搶鏡頭
我想看冰原狼 但是又怕選角和道具服裝做得粗糙
要是能像魔戒一樣用心就好了
但是想到影集和電影的成本差距又覺得希望不大
Martin 的官網：
HBO OPTIONS ICE & FIRE
January 18, 2007
Now it can be told. VARIETY broke the story yesterday morning, and
it's all over the web. I have received hundreds of emails since
the announcement went public, many of them asking, "Is it true?"
Other readers have posted comments and congratulations in reply to
my confirmation on my Live Journal.
Yes, it's true. Winter is coming to HBO.
Home Box Office has acquired an option on the television and film
rights to my fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, in hopes of
bringing the story to television as an original, ongoing HBO series.
We have been working out the details for months, but the deal is
finally done and the pieces are in place, so it's official.
I won't rehash the details of the announcement in VARIETY. Go
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957532.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
and you can read the story for yourself.
The executive producers and showrunners on the project will be David
Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Benioff and Weiss will also be writing the
pilot script, and -- assuming that HBO eventually greenlights the
series -- most of the episodes as well. This will be the first
television project for them, but both have experience in novels as
well as feature films. David Benioff is the author of the novel
The 25th Hour and the collection When the Nines Roll Over: and Other
Stories. His screenwriting credits include Troy, Stay, and The 25th
Hour, and the forthcoming film versions of Wolverine and The Kite
Runner. Dan Weiss has written the novel Lucky Wander Boy and the
screen adaptations for the forthcoming films Halo, based on the
videogame, and Pattern Recognition, from the William Gibson story.
He and Benioff also worked together on the screenplay for Ender's
Game, adapting the novel by Orson Scott Card.
I met David and Dan in California last fall, when I was out for LACon,
and we discussed the show over a long lunch (the restaurant was packed
when we arrived, and completely empty when we left, and the waiters
had started setting up for dinner). They impressed the hell out of me,
and I'm really looking forward to working with them. They're both
bright, passionate, enthusiastic. They know the books inside and out,
they get the books, and they're committed to bringing my story to your
television screens... not a vaguely similar story with the same title
(ala Earthsea, or what passed for same on the Sci-Fi Channel). A Song
of Ice and Fire should be in very good hands.
As for my own involvement, I'll be scripting one episode per season.
I'll also serve as co-executive producer on the show, along with Vince
Gerardis and Ralph Vicinanza of Created By, and Guymon Casady of
Management 360. I have already had a number of emails asking why I
am not writing more of the scripts myself. Three big reasons: A Dance
With Dragons, The Winds of Winter, A Dream of Spring. As much as I'd
like to be a part of the show on a daily basis, as I once was on The
Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast, the novels take priority. David
Benioff and Dan Weiss are very talented writers, but even they can't
adapt a book that hasn't been written.
I am thrilled to be in business with HBO as well. For years now, the
very best drama on television has been found on Sunday nights, in HBO's
original series. TV does not get much better than The Sopranos, Six Feet
Under, Big Love, Carnivale, The Wire, Deadwood... and my current favorite
addiction, Rome. (If you're not watching the second season right now,
you're missing the best show on television). Writing, directing, acting,
set design, production values... everything on an HBO show is quality,
and that's what I have dreamed of for A Song of Ice and Fire.
It was only a month or two after A Game of Thrones was first published
in 1996 that I received the first query about film and television rights.
Nothing ever came of it. Over the years, as the series grew more popular
with every subsequent book, I received a steady stream of such queries
from producers, directors, screenwriters, studios, and others in the
industry. Nothing ever came of them either. Meanwhile, my readers kept
asking if A Song of Ice and Fire would ever be filmed. My answer was
always the same. While I was always willing to listen to offers, I did
not see how the books could be made into a feature film, or even a
trilogy of such films, like Lord of the Rings. The novels were simply
too big and too complex, and to make the sort of deep cuts that would
be necessary to get them down to feature length would have required
losing nine-tenths of the characters and three-quarters of the plot.
The only way to dramatize a story that size, I felt, was as a
television miniseries (like Roots or Shogun) or, better still, a series
of series, with each novel providing a full season's worth of episodes.
That is precisely what HBO intends to do, starting with A Game of
Thrones. With twelve hours to devote to each of the novels, rather
than the two to three that a feature film would allow, we should be
able to present a faithful dramatization of the story that will please
both my own readers, and HBO subscribers who have never read a fantasy
novel in their lives.
A television series does not spring up full blown overnight, of course.
You won't be watching A Game of Thrones on HBO next week, or telling
TIVO to record it next month. There's a long and winding road ahead of
us, and many pitfalls along the way... but every journey begins with a
first step, and who knows? Maybe next year time you'll be seeing Tyrion
and Dany and Jon Snow in those HBO promo spots, mixing and mingling
with Tony Soprano, Al Swearengen, and Titus Pullo.
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