George R. R. Martin says characters who don't die in the books will die on the TV show, adding that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss 'are even bloodier than' him.
- Feb 17, 2015
AceShowbiz - George R. R. Martin warns readers of his "Song of Ice and Fire" novels and fans of "Game of Thrones" that there will be surprising deaths in the upcoming season 5 of the hit TV series. The book author revealed this when he attended the Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 14.
"People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy," he told Showbiz411. "So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (series co-creators and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss) are even bloodier than I am."
Asked about the future of the show, Martin was unsure how long it would last. "Not really certain yet," he said, "This is the fifth season, the sixth season HBO picked up last year. We will have a 7th, 8th or 9th, no one knows. They only renew one or two seasons at a time. After we do season 6, maybe we'll get a renewal for 7th and 8th. That all depends, television is a very changeable medium."
He went on explaining, "Yeah, it's the hottest show on TV now, but will it be the hottest show on TV two years from now? Hot shows come and go and television changes, and I've lived through that before. I certainly hope that we get to tell the entire story. Because whatever happens with the show I'm going to finish the books, it will be seven books."
"But each of these books are 1500 pages long and they each have enough material in them for several seasons. I have two more books, the one I'm writing right now, 'The Winds of Winter', and after that the last book, 'The Dream of Spring', so those will be the two final books. But we're talking 3000 pages of material. How many seasons that translates too? That's up to D.B. and David."
"Game of Thrones" returns with the fifth season on Sunday, April 12 on HBO.
