Westeros Blog: Audition Tape Update

[Westeros]

In the course of an update on various fronts, GRRM notes a little cryptically that he’s spending his spare time with, “Varys, Littlefinger, the Old Bear, Jory Cassel, Septa Mordane, Bronn, and some other old friends.” This baffled us for a moment—at first we thought he meant the script he was writing, but at least one of the characters in that list wouldn’t appear in said episode. Then we thought perhaps he was rereading A Game of Thrones to help him get into the flow of the script.

And then, a moment after, it dawned on us: GRRM has been viewing audition tapes for those various roles. Exciting!

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[FilliamHMuffman]

As GRRM has said, we shouldn't read too much into his posts looking for cryptic hints everywhere. If he's got something to say, he'll say it. Maybe he's looking at audition tapes for those characters, or maybe he's just rereading AGoT right now to get in the mood to write his script. Let's not work ourselves up like some of us did last week thinking Dance is almost done.

[The Pita]

I think it makes sense that he's watching audition tapes, actually.

Here's to Aiden Gillen as LF.

[Ran]

He's not re-reading AGoT to get in the mood for writing the script, since he says writing the script is already an on-going process. And since his episode, episode 8, would be after Jory is killed, can't be because he's writing him (or any other of those characters, specifically).

GRRM doesn't put out cryptic hints suggesting he's done. But teasing that he's doing something interesting, yes. Especially when you combine it with the fact that he's already previously stated, explicitly, that he's been looking at audition tapes. :)