HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

i'm waiting out for the cranny editions

slocki is that you

i learned from the master

Well, I had Books 2 & 3 in paperback, but I'm afeared my copy of Book 4 is HC.

if a film ever gets made of The Wasp Factory the kid that plays Joffrey needs to be cast as Frank.

your davos seaworth:

http://www.liamcunningham.net/interviews/images/Liam_Herald_2009.jpg

(liam cunningham is the guys name)

these new castings are cool. stannis guy is great. melisandre would ideally have been a little older maybe.

i am obv talking purely about physical appearance. i have no idea if these folx can act worth shit.

carice van houten can act her ass off. she was great in the mega underrated Black Book

Just want to reiterate what I said earlier about Dillane in John Adams. Totally awesome.

good day sir!

just go read the books you lames

― Number None, Tuesday, July 19, 2011 3:51 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

totally the people not reading these books are the lame people

anyone who needs proof of van Houten's awesomeness, rent Verhoeven's Black Book.

even if u dont need proof, rent it anyway because its fwiggin gweat!!!!!

*went

*pwoof

Is Stannis like really rilly interested in talking about swivel chairs?

They're making my WRISTS HURT right now, because I'm re-reading this damn series on the subway.

totally the people not reading these books are the lame people

Well, yeah

What happened to Alan Rickman? I thought he was all super-rumored to be cast as Stannis. Or maybe that was another character?

alan rickman was never in the conversation - you're probably just thinking of some fan speculation. he's got other shit to do, and besides that he's like 20 years older than mark addy (stannis' older brother on the show)

i don't really understand what it is with alan rickman and americans of a certain persuasion

he's so dark + moody!

ha i was gonna say alan rick is too goth for game of thrones

maybe he could play a braavosi banker or something

has he ever been in anything actually good

yes.

die hard

you feeb!

yes, but has he ever been in anything .. actually good

Quigley Down Under

Galaxy Quest

die hard is legit a really good movie. have you seen it man

he was the only good thing about the last HP movie. he has one line-reading in it that's so juicy you basically have to laugh

He was also in Smiley's People.

i've seen die hard but i was fourteen and it's all bound up with the sequels and the psone game for me, so maybe it is better than i am giving it credit for

i am entirely willing to believe that he is A Good Thing in the middle of harry potter eight or galaxy quest or whatever! that wasn't my question tho really

he was in rasputin: dark servant of destiny

galaxy quest 2nded

lolol rasputin:

http://content7.flixster.com/photo/85/71/66/8571665_gal.jpg

yeah i admit outside of die hard i dont have much to say about his filmography. i havent seen ang lee's sense & sensibility, he's in that and it has a veneer of respectability

He would be a terrible Stannis tho. Quite apart from his age

he's more of a lannister senior type

i mean, he'd be okay as pretty much anyone in the books in the right age bracket except stannis tbh

yall pretending u dont luv harry potter is p cute

walked past some americans in oxford the other day, in gryffindor scarves, complaining about how they didn't show some character repairing his wand, because it was An Important Moment. we need some kind of south africa style cultural embargo imo

Alan Rickman was also one of the few things that doesn't make me want to shoot myself when my wife wants to watch Love Actually for the 2.4 billionth time.

Also, I loved him as Metatron in Dogma.

bill nighy vs. allan rickman

Fair enough, as Bill Nighy helps save Love Actually a little too.

Tea-leaf reading on a practical level:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/07/29/138807511/hbo-grapples-with-the-future-of-game-of-thrones

Asked why many HBO shows get 13 episodes a season and GOT has been getting 10, Lombardo said it simply wasn't possible to physically execute more than 10 episodes a year of the quality they want to produce. He and Plepler also tried to clarify that it wasn't a strict requirement from the network that the producers cover an entire book in each 10-episode season. Would that answer the question?

Of course not. Later in the session, we once again returned to the possibility that the entire story of GOT will somehow not wind up being told. "This is a story that sort of has to finish at some point," said the next questioner. "And it can't finish in the middle." (Of course, TV stories finish in the middle all the time, but the assumption buried in the question was clear: You do not want to deal with what will happen if you stop telling this story to this particular audience before the end of whatever winds up being written by Martin.)

What the critic wanted, though — a guarantee that HBO would finish exhaustively covering the story as it's told in the books, was not forthcoming. Already running short on time, largely as a result of answering this very question in a number of different incarnations, Lombardo said, "I don't know where the show for us ends as opposed to the books. It maybe would be fantastic to be able to say, this show will go on for ten years and do every aspect of the books. I don't know that that will be the case."

And so on, etc.

they could totally collapse the next three books into two seasons imo