GAME OF THRONES Season 5 Will Kill Off Characters Still Alive in the Books
It looks like HBO's Game of Thrones is going to stray even further from the George R.R. Martin books in a big way. During an interview with Showbiz 411, Martin teased that the upcoming fifth season of the series is going to kill off characters who are currently still alive and well in the books he has written. Don't worry! He doesn't say who, so there are no spoilers.
“People are going to die who don’t die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of ‘Game Of Thrones) are even bloodier than I am.”
That should definitely make things interesting. I wonder who they will kill off. Will the death of these characters put the TV series on a completely different trajectory than the books? I guess we'll just have to wait and see. When asked how many more seasons Game of Thrones we'll see, he said:
"Not really certain yet. 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 then adds:
“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.”
I hope we get to see the entire story brought to life as well! HBO better follow through all the way with this series, or fans are going to be pissed. As for the changes being made from book to series, I'm actually OK when they don't completely follow the story in the books. It makes the series more surprising and interesting.