I know Ryan and his team wanted to do something close to that, but they can’t do the Simonetti throne because it’s 15 feet high, and you’d need a crane to shoot the king. There have been a dozen different of the Iron Throne that’s described in the books, the best of which is by Marc Simonetti, an artist I’ve worked with closely. I said long ago that the Iron Throne in Game of Thrones, while it became iconic and has ruled in its own way, is nothing like the Iron Throne that’s described in my books. All of this is part of it, but I’m still two books away from the ending, so I haven’t fully explained it all yet. If you go all the way back to Daenys the Dreamer, why did she leave? She saw the Doom of Valyria coming. He had become a drunkard because they freaked him out. In the Dunk and Egg stories, there’s one of Egg’s brothers who has these prophetic dreams, which of course he can’t handle. Martin: It’s mentioned here and there-in connection with Prince Rhaegar, for example. What is the significance of these prophecies, George? Unless I’ve missed it, is this something you wrote in one of the books, or is that an invention of the show? A lot of them said I committed A Song of Ice and Fire heresy, but I did tell them: “That came from George.” I reassured everybody. When civil war eventually erupts within the clan, a conflict known as the Dance of the Dragons, those competing for dominance ultimately destroy the beasts-not to mention one another-rendering dragons all but extinct for generations.Ĭondal: I think they were very intrigued by that. The ruthless family wielded them over Westeros as weapons of unimaginable power, but the creatures were also an everyday sight. The new show, debuting August 21, is drawn from his 2018 book, Fire & Blood, and will tell just a portion of that fictional history of the Targaryen family from an era when dragons were plentiful. I do find it a little grisly, people speculating online about what’s going to happen to the rest of the books when I die. Hopefully, COVID won’t kill me, so we won’t have that issue. Every time I do, I don’t make it and everybody gets mad at me, and there’s no sense. “I’m making progress, but I’ve given up on any hope of predicting the end. “Oddly enough, although I hate having COVID here, the two years of enforced isolation enabled me to get a lot more writing done, because I was doing a lot less traveling and public appearances and speeches and all of that stuff,” the 73-year-old said. The writer was, as one would expect, a little testy about fans who used the occasion of his illness to publicly wring their hands over what this might mean for his famously unfinished Song of Ice and Fire books. Condal-his handpicked cocreator for the new prequel series that’s set roughly two centuries before the brutal history viewers saw unfold in the 2011–2019 HBO show. The day after, however, he rallied to do this joint interview with Ryan J. The creator of the Game of Thrones universe found himself sidelined from the gala premiere of GoT’s new prequel series, House of the Dragon, when he came down with COVID the day before. Martin had a cold-but he was still breathing fire. New high profile cast members include Elijah Wood ( Lord of the Rings trilogy), Lauren Ambrose ( Servant), and Simone Kessell ( Obi-Wan Kenobi).George R.R. The cast features Melanie Lynskey ( Castle Rock), Juliette Lewis ( The Hateful Eight), Tawny Cypress ( Unforgettable), Ella Purnell ( Sweetbitter), Samantha Hanratty ( Shameless), Sophie Thatcher ( Prospect), Sophie Nélisse ( The Book Thief), Steven Krueger ( The Originals), and Warren Kole ( Shades of Blue). According to Showtime, the series averaged over 5 million weekly viewers across platforms in Season 1, and was the second-most streamed series in Showtime history. Yellowjackets follows two distinct timelines: A mid-nineties plane crash that forced a whole teenage-girl soccer team to survive in the wilderness, and the present-day life of the survivors, who keep dark secrets of what happened during the traumatic incident. I think people were creeping into her house and doing shit.” It's meant to imply that Taissa did it.’ And I'm still not sure about that! As an audience member. And then everybody else was like, ‘No, Christina, that's not what it means. I was surprised by the dog head in Taissa’s basement, and I misunderstood! I didn't think that Taissa had done that. I was really surprised when Natalie was kidnapped. So I'm not surprised by what has been revealed so far. “Well, no, because in the beginning, this was something that was sketched out for in my meetings. Some recent Yellowjackets cast announcements shocked fans because they reveal that some characters are alive. Ricci also took a little time to talk about the upcoming Season 2, which starts filming at the end of this month. RELATED: Elijah Wood Joins 'Yellowjackets' Season 2
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