George R.R. Martin Is Apparently Done Talking About House of the Dragon

Though George R.R. Martin readers volition ever click connected immoderate spot of quality involving the writer to spot if he’s yet giving the Holy Grail of updates—Winds of Winter when?—it’s been an exhausting fewer weeks for some fans and Martin himself. He ripped disconnected his gloves successful a caller blog station (which he’d teased successful an earlier blog post) to unload connected play 2 of House of the Dragon. Soon aft it appeared, the station complaining astir choices made successful the page-to-screen adaptation was swiftly deleted, but it inactive elicited responses from HBO and Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal.

Now, it seems, Martin’s decided he’ll halt weighing successful connected House of the Dragon entirely. In a Hollywood Reporter communicative charting assorted concerns swirling astir popular culture’s existent biggest phantasy series—Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and HBO’s Dragon—Martin was asked to remark connected the Dragon kerfluffle. According to the trade, helium chose to talk astir A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO’s adjacent Game of Thrones spin-off, instead.

“I visited the acceptable successful Northern Ireland successful July and loved what I saw,” THR quoted him arsenic saying. “Great cast. [The pb characters] Dunk and Egg look arsenic if they walked retired of the pages of my book. My readers are going to emotion them. I surely do. [Showrunner Ira Parker] is doing a large job.”

Reading betwixt the lines, you tin surmise that Martin is acceptable to determination connected from talking astir House of the Dragon—at slightest for now; play 3 is connected the way, and who knows however he’ll respond to that. As the THR communicative notes, Martin’s outspoken disapproval could precise good beryllium a holdover from his frustrations astir however HBO’s Game of Thrones adaptation, which earned large praise astatine archetypal but stumbled successful aboriginal seasons, was handled. “The erstwhile bid looms silently implicit this,” THR points out. “Martin is understandably passionate and protective astir the satellite helium created. He has imagined precisely however pivotal scenes would ideally play retired onscreen and gamely stayed mum for years erstwhile Thrones took liberties with his worldly that helium didn’t hold with.”

And speaking of Winds of Winter, Martin did connection a teeny update connected his advancement successful a blog station shared earlier this week, successful which helium said helium wrote “some caller pages” implicit the summer. “Some” is much encouraging than “none,” astatine least! And conscionable similar Martin, we’re besides looking guardant to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, owed to deed HBO adjacent year.

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