I love George RR Martin, and now apparently there's gonna be TV series based on his books! I'm not sure how true this is, since I got the info off Facebook but still... Yayness!

5/5/2009 - Tom McCarthy has come aboard to direct HBO's fantasy pilot "Game of Thrones," on which the star of his first feature, "The Station Agent's" Peter Dinklage, has been tapped for a key role.

Based on George R.R. Martin's best-selling "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels, "Thrones" is described as an epic struggle for power set in a vast and violent fantasy kingdom. Dinklage will play Tyrion, the Queen's brother who is treated as an outsider because of his size.

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss penned the pilot script and are exec producing. HBO Entertainment president-turned-producer Carolyn Strauss, Management 360's Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis, Ralph Vicinanza and Martin serve as co-exec producers, and Mark Huffam and Frank Doelger are producers.

"Thrones" is slated to film in the third quarter in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what the country's First Minister Peter Robinson hails as "the first TV production of such vast size and scale that has been filmed in Northern Ireland."

11/11/2008 - HBO has given a pilot order to the fantasy project "Game of Thrones." The pilot and series would be executive produced by David Benioff ("Troy"), D.B. Weiss ("Halo") and Guymon Casady. George R.R. Martin writes on his blog, "David Benioff and Dan Weiss did a terrific job with the script. And yes, all of you can relax, it's very faithful."

If the pilot is considered successful according to the HBO executives, it would get an order to produce the series. The plan would be to have one television season for each book in the fantasy series.

Because this project is still only a pilot that needs to be produced, no date has been proposed for when the first episode would air.

I've never read the books, but if it's HBO doing it, it'll be done well, they make some great shows!

I dunno who HBO is!

i don't know what it stands for but it's an American cable network, they made The Sopranos and the Wire, two of the best shows ever I reckon, they give the writers a chance to build up characters, directors to get quality shots etc...they're good!

Cool, sounds good. Never heard of The Wire though. I can't see how the books are gonna work made into a TV series. I'll watch it though!

The Wire's a cop show, but it's not like CSI or ay of them, it's pretty realistic.

They usually have nice big budgets for their shows anyway so if they need CGI or whatever it should work ok....I've no idea about the books though so I should probably shut up now!

They're good books! Pretty complicated though. There's lots of undead creatures in it and whatnot.

I remember you talking about them before, I'll probably give the show a go when it comes on.

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