George R.R. Martin's Blog, page 208

Lights, Camera, Action

It's evening in Belfast, and the first day of shooting is now in the can.

Feels strange. Exciting, but also... I don't know, maybe I'm feeling a bit of empty nest syndrome. My kids have left home, and are making their own way in the world.

I'd wish good luck to everyone involved in the HBO production, but I recall that you never say that in the theatre. Maybe everyone concerned break several legs.

And me... well, a blank computer screen awaits. Still a lot of story to tell.

The Only Living Boy in New York

... or Santa Fe, as the case may be.

Half the editors I know have spent the weekend at comicon in San Diego, hobnobbing with many writers I know, attending fabuloous parties, enjoying great meals, and drinking in bizarre but fascinating human tapestry that is SDCC.

Tomorrow, off in Belfast, the cameras begin to roll on the HBO series. Northern Ireland is way ahead of us, so it's tomorrow there already. Only a few hours now.

And here I sit at my computer, still shoveling Snow. And snow. The s...

DOORWAYS Coming in November

I am thrilled (really) to reveal that today at the San Diego Comicon IDW Comics announced their plans to publish a miniseries and graphic novel of DOORWAYS, the television pilot that I created, wrote, and produced for ABC from 1991 to 1993.

The first issue will be published in November.

Starring:
-- Tom, an emergency room doc at a Los Angeles hospital,
-- Cat, a half-feral fugitive from an alternate timeline.
-- Thane, the manhound, part human, part animal, part cybernetic...

Focus and Cyanide Preview RTS Game

Regular readers of this Not A Blog and my website will recall that the French studio Cyanide licensed the rights to do a pair of videogames based on A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE -- a Role Playing Game (RPG)and a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game.

They've been busy ever since, both in France and Montreal. And now, in partnership with Focus Home Entertainment, Cyanide has unveiled some of the art from the RTS, which will be called A GAME OF THRONES: GENESIS.

So herewith a look at the Wall and Castle Black...

For the Real Completist

For the collector who wants everything I ever did... and I mean EVERYTHING, no matter how short, inconsequential, and trivial... a whole bunch of old comic fanzines from the 60s and 70s have just been posted up on ebay:

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/mrdo!mrdo!_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZQQ_sopZ12

Some of these have stuff by me in 'em. Letters, mostly. Maybe an early story or two. I haven't check the whole listing to find out.

You can doublecheck against the listing of my juvenalia on m...

In the Vale

The Vale of Arryn may have remained aloof from the War of the Five Kings in my novel, but it is still going to be a part of the series of GAME OF THRONES. In the recent fact sheet, HBO revealed the names of a number of the actors who will portraying characters from the Vale, so I thought I would introduce you to some of them here.

As Lysa Arryn, widow of Jon Arryn and Lady of the Eyrie and sister to Catelyn Stark, we were fortunate to get the services of the wonderful Scottish actress KATE DI...

Vote Early and Often

More cool news. The good folks at Green Ronin have informed me that PERIL AT KING'S LANDING has been nominated for an ENnie Award in the "Best Adventure" category.

The ENnie Awards are the most prestigious honors in role-playing these day, I am told. Green Ronin also has nominees in the "Best Game" and "Product of the Year" categories.



The voting is going on RIGHT NOW, and is open to the public. To cast your ballot, go to

http://www.ennie-awards.com/voting/ballot.asp

In other gaming news, Gr...

Cool

I'm informed that John Hodgman has twittered about reading GAME OF THRONES.

Hey, he's a PC.

A funny guy, too. Love him on THE DAILY SHOW.

Very cool.

Deja Vu

So I accidentally bumped into this on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9_bP219ehQ

I came away feeling I had seen this before. Or something very similar.

I had:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5bnVoZK4Q

Have to admit, this sent a cold chill up my spine.

Deja vu can be a bitch.

Or, as someone famous once said, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Snowbound

Falling way behind here on LiveJournal, I know. I've got lots more parts and actors to talk about, the RTS game to announce, the Eenie Awards....

Snowing heavily in Santa Fe, however, and I've been on a bit of a roll. I'll get to all that other stuff when I can. Kong comes first.

Pat's just died. A quick death, but a messy one. Ugly, painful, humiliating. But hey, he earned it.

Off I go to shovel Snow.