a song of ice and fire the winds of winter

“Yes, it was Kit Harrington who brought the idea to us,” Martin said of the show idea.

Last summer, Martin confirmed the project’s development but stressed it had yet to be green-lit. Kit Harington and HBO are in the developmental stage of a Jon Snow sequel series that would pick up near the end of “Thrones.” HBO is developing a sequel featuring Jon Snow. Martin fail to finish the final two novels - as I expect - that rushed, illogical mess of a final season would be the last we hear of characters like Arya, Dany, Sansa, and Tyrion. HBO asked Martin to take a more hands-on approach to “Dragon” and other possible spin-offs than he did to the original series. Currently, Martin executive produces the “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon.” HBO signed Martin to a five-year deal in 2020 that entails content development for various projects. And he has less time to focus on his writing process than at any time in the previous decade. He often scoffs at his own meticulous, slow-paced writing style. At his current pace, that’s what? Another four years?Īt 74 years old, there’s the unfortunate possibility that Martin will not complete “Winds” and certainly not “A Dream.” Still, Martin has to finish the remaining quarter of the book, re-read his copy, edit the novel, and send it in for editing and publication. Martin gives an update on “The Winds of Winter.” Hopefully, that explains the clunky, much-maligned last two seasons of the show. “Thrones” ended in 2019 without the source material of the final two books. Martin had previously vowed to release “Winds” and the planned final novel in the series “A Dream of Spring” in time for the conclusion of the television show. After all, it’s been 10 years since the release of “A Dance with Dragons,” the 5th “ASOIAF” novel. There’s been reasonable skepticism among readers that Martin had long given up writing the series. The detailed update is perhaps a sign that Martin is at least still working on the book. “The characters all interweave and I’m actually finished with a couple of the characters, but not others. “I think it’s going to be a very big book, and I think I’m about three-quarters of the way done,” Martin told Stephen Colbert last week.

“Winds” is the planned sixth installment of the novel series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the source material for HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Martin revealed that he is about 75% of the way finished with the “Winds of Winter.”

A song of ice and fire the winds of winter