Comments on: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Producer/Showrunner David Benioff Suggests Books Four & Five May Merge For Later Seasons

By: Tyrion

Tyrion — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:44:01 +0000

You should put up a spoiler warning, saying which characters are not in book 4 but come back in 5 is a big spoiler with this series, everyone now knows that they'll be safe for the next 2-3 seasons.

By: Mia

Mia — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:44:01 +0000

I am kinda worried of what they are going to do because Daenerys Targaryen isn't even in A feast for Crows… and she's one of my fav's of the show.. she's not really back in the book until A Dance With Dragons

By: TheoC

TheoC — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:44:01 +0000

They pretty much have to, nobody will tune in next season to not see Tyrion, or to be bored by the Dornish rules of succession. I'm guessing they could spread it the rest of book 3, 4 and 5 over 3 seasons, but there's plenty of stuff they could dump/combine along the way to make it in 2 seasons.

So maybe by the time they get to book 6 and it's either season 6 or 7, catching up, without the final book, so that by the time the final book is finished & published, we'll have to wait and see it adapted as a trilogy in theatres.

I do have an urge to see this stuff on the big screen.

By: patchthehavoc

patchthehavoc — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:44:01 +0000

This… is not surprising at all, given the way that AFOC/ADWD are structured. And I don't know that I'd take GRRM at face value. He's saying that the series won't catch up to him if they include everything… and Benioff is saying that they most likely won't include everything and some subplots will be adapted out.

I think it would actually be really interesting if GRRM was forced to lay out his game plan for books 6 and 7 to HBO when his writing speed for the books can't keep up with the production speed for the show. We'd be able to see more notable divergences between book and TV canon, the question of spoilers becomes both a moot point and a weird inversion ("I haven't finished the book yet, don't spoil me on whether it sticks to the show!"), who knows what else…