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^That's because HBO immediately released statements contradicting him after he'd said that. Also he'd suggested absurd things in the past like making four seasons out of AFFC and ADWD IIRC.

He never said they were going to do it, he said he thought it would be a good idea. There wasn't much to contradict. And making 4 seasons out of books 4&5 isn't an absurd idea. It might be to someone who doesn't like those books, but that's just taste. I loved both of them, so I wouldn't mind it. Certainly 1 season is too short.

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^That's because HBO immediately released statements contradicting him after he'd said that. Also he'd suggested absurd things in the past like making four seasons out of AFFC and ADWD IIRC.

This. Martin's expectations on the length of the show have at times seemed detached from reality.

On the other hand, a feature film to finish the show isn't the worst idea ever. I don't think 7 seasons is going to be quite enough to do Martin's tale justice, but 7 seasons + 1 (and only one) feature film might just get them over the line without ruffling HBO's feathers. It may also buy a little more time for Martin to get the final book out (a long shot I know, but a guy can dream).

If it is a serious possibility, then they need to decide soon, in order to plan out where the next two seasons are going to go and where the last TV season will end. As far as I'm aware, a feature film to end a TV show is pretty well unique (correct me if I'm wrong, I know there have been spin-offs and stand alone movies to multiple TV shows but this would be a different thing entirely).

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Don't know why anyone would see a movie as an appealing prospect. A final season and series finale is as exciting an event as a big feature release, and allows more time to do the story justice.

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I notice only a vague tangential mention of the source of this rumor again, actually the originator does not mention it, Charles Dance.

Dance does not impress me as someone who repeats fan rumors or even GRRM's , early year, wishful thinking.

These things are never followed up on so where did Dance get his info for the speculation? He was close to the production.

The repetition of the speculation by him does not mean much, but I don't think he got it from George.

In his case it would seem some possible idea about a prequel?

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Most successful shows generally have a run-time of ten seasons



So nothing wrong with hoping GoT is similar, they could certainly put more Aegon, Ironborn etc in which people are picky about but seems we'll get 7-8 seasons because the showrunners are fatigued



something like this, with such an epic scale to it, would require a massive feature film size budget to properly bring it to life, they are struggling already on a TV budget, plus given the brand is so strong they could potentially make quite a lot of money out of a concluding trilogy, as in hundreds of millions instead of tens of millions, it would require a big budget but would rake in so much more than a highly pirated TV series ala LOTR for example



Ultimately money talks on these things insofar as TV networks go, so over time HBO would team up with a studio to realise this if there was a strong case for it, which there is as the show becomes more and more popular



If they finish the 7-8 seasons off there is plenty of prospect for spin-off series or mini-series to focus on such things as Dunk and Egg, Robert and Balon Greyjoys rebellion and perhaps that Ancient Dragon war fought over Targeryan female succession etc



I actually think Balons rebellion would be most popular, as pretty much "all the gang were there", it would be a great way for fans to see their favourite dead characters back in costume or un-maimed, eg Ned Stark, Jaimie Lannister, Tywin Lannister etc



Only issue with a movie is that it is good for concluding battles, but not good for politcal intrigue or build-up, so it would have to be about rounding things off


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I can see them ending the series with 2 conccurently shot feature films that would work as a single "epic" film in the vein of Jackson's Tolkien adaptations. If nothing else it would buy Martin the time I think he'll need to finish his story before D&D finish theirs.

I think there's already a pretty good name for it floating around out there... something like....

A Song of Ice and Fire

Even if you're going to go the whole 9 yards and give each section a subtitle, I bet you could conjure some up pretty quickly

like say...

'The Winds of Winter' and 'A Dream of Spring'

... or 'The Force Awakens', 'Ice and Fire Reloaded' or 'A Quantum of Skagos'

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If a movie is being made and Charles Dance is involved it's gotta be Robert's Rebellion or Balon's rebellion.

I concur. Due to the way Hollywood works, it'll be Robert's Rebellion but I'd love to see the Greyjoy Rebellion.

My favorite movie would be the Blackfyre crisis / rebellion.

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I can see them ending the series with 2 conccurently shot feature films that would work as a single "epic" film in the vein of Jackson's Tolkien adaptations. If nothing else it would buy Martin the time I think he'll need to finish his story before D&D finish theirs.

On the other hand, a feature film to finish the show isn't the worst idea ever. I don't think 7 seasons is going to be quite enough to do Martin's tale justice, but 7 seasons + 1 (and only one) feature film might just get them over the line without ruffling HBO's feathers. It may also buy a little more time for Martin to get the final book out (a long shot I know, but a guy can dream).

I think that's the ultimate reason so many people seem to want a movie to end the series: a foolish hope that this will buy Martin the time he needs.

Because as soon as you start thinking about all the logistic aspects of a movie, you realize it doesn't make any sense. A R-rated movie that can only be watched if you've seen 70 hours of TV episodes is going to make tons of money?

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I think that's the ultimate reason so many people seem to want a movie to end the series: a foolish hope that this will buy Martin the time he needs.

Because as soon as you start thinking about all the logistic aspects of a movie, you realize it doesn't make any sense. A R-rated movie that can only be watched if you've seen 70 hours of TV episodes is going to make tons of money?

Seems that was GRRM's thinking in one (sort-of-panic) interview he gave earlier this year.

I don't know what kind of contract he has for that, I mean since the story is known a film could be made without Winds being published.

It would probably be made by parent company Warner at the 150m + level , that would force a PG-13. Most people who watch the show would go see it, most people don't watch it, might be a prolog but lots of VFX sell lots of tickets these days, so no problem.

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