Although best known for writing long, infinitely detailed and eerily empty fictional works on how it will always really tighten the belt and finish The winds of O WinterGeorge RR Martin has also developed a secondary career as a TV producer over the years. Martin recently announced that he was producing (with Kalinda Vazquez) an adaptation of Roger Zelazny Roadmarks, and your resume also includes, of course, The Game of Thrones, Syfy Nightflyers, and the million or more The Game of Thrones spin-offs currently under development –most notably Dragon House, set to arrive at HBO in 2022. Now the network moved to continue that relationship, and carefully fill Martin’s (seemingly) many idle hours by signing a 5-year contract with the hypothetical author to continue doing shows for them.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the general The deal would give the network access to any program Martin develops over the next five years, and it would give Martin a large bag of money at the sound of what is being reported as 8 digits. (Or approximately 1, 000,000 of those little gray hats he likes.)
What Martin achieves with this is obvious. (See above, re: Hats.) HBO’s commitmentmeanwhile, underlines its continued belief that it can generate the next The Game of Thrones out of, well, The Game of Thrones, happily ignoring the ways in which the series’ cultural fee kind of fell off a cliff the second it aired its final in 2019. Which is not a criticism of Martin – he didn’t write the last season, after all, as it would have been too busy not writing O O Winds of O Winter have a lot to do with the series in this point– as much as it is an acknowledgment of how much the network wants to believe that any hypnotic combination of violence, nudity and endangered children it has done Took one of the cable’s greatest hits of all time will still be in operation when and where we return to Westeros.