Winter is coming...

[CKDad]

And it's bringing Sean Bean to Westeros!

For those that don't know, HBO has greenlit the pilot for "A Song of Ice and Fire" and Sean Bean has been cast as Ned Stark:
http://grrm.livejournal.com/95840.html

I think it's a pretty good choice - Ned's a little more uptight & upright than Bean's usual characters, but I think he'll be able to capture the role well. And his name recognition won't hurt the series' ratings, should it get picked up.

I may actually have to subscribe to HBO for this!
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[Omote]

Yes, I think this is a good choice. Though, the look of Sean Bean not quite how I pictured Ned, but I like the casting none-the-less.

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[Lord Dynel]

I think Sean Bean can pull it off. I'm intrigued to see how it turns it out.
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[gideon_thorne]

*chuckles* The author is a pretty cool dude. He certainly takes teasing well. About having no characters left at the end of his series, since he keeps killing them off.

GRRM told me that he's going to have the final cover be nothing but a series of headstones with the characters names on em. Hilarious.
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[ssfsx17]

For some reason, I get the feeling they'll be leaving out the love scene involving the 14-year-old girl

[CKDad]

gideon_thorne wrote:
*chuckles* The author is a pretty cool dude. He certainly takes teasing well. About having no characters left at the end of his series, since he keeps killing them off.

GRRM told me that he's going to have the final cover be nothing but a series of headstones with the characters names on em. Hilarious.

Was joking about this with some friends recently. We decided there are three characters who seem likely to survive long enough to reach final book, even if they don't survive the book itself - Jon Snow, Tyrion and Daenerys. But none of us would bet more than a six-pack on even these three, and pretty much everyone else is fair game to be food for crows.

We did decide it would be really funny for Sam Tarly to be the only surviving viewpoint character, leading the survivors off into the sunset, like the Gyro-Captain at the end of Mad Max 3.
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[Steerpike]

CKDad wrote:
We did decide it would be really funny for Sam Tarly to be the only surviving viewpoint character, leading the survivors off into the sunset, like the Gyro-Captain at the end of Mad Max 3.

There's one character who, if the character dies, I'll be driving to GRRMs house with a bat.

[Buttmonkey]

Don't worry -- GRRM will never finish his damn series, so everyone who's still alive is safe. The only way this thing wraps up is if HBO's writers finish it for him. Grr!

[Jyrdan Fairblade]

Sean Bean is a cool choice. I agree, he's not how I pictured him, but I'm sure he will be the character nonetheless.

Yeah, Jon, Tyrion, and Daenerys are about as close to main characters as the books have. As much as Tyrion's been through, if he was going to be killed off, it would've happened already.

[Steerpike]

I think Arya is going to be important. Her storyline has become so tangential to what is going on that there isn't much point in even following it unless it ends up with her being important later.

[danbuter]

http://grrm.livejournal.com/95840.html

Some more cast info from GRRM's blog.
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[cinderblock]

This is looking like pure w1n. Can't wait for the series. It needs to be on now.
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[Sir Ironside]

By the looks of GRRM himself, I'd say there is a better chance that we'll be seeing his tombstone before the last book is finished. He isn't exactly the poster boy for healthy living. And, lets face it his strongest plan was to have finished Dance in the Summer of 2008.... 2008 and Dance is actually the other half of A Storm of Crows so by his own words Dance was already half written.

I'm trying to be optimistic as possible but it is getting harder and harder to imagine the series ever "officially" ending. 5 years between books does not bode well for a tidy finish.

Too bad Song is easily my favourite fantasy setting (followed closely by the Malazan Books of the Fallen) and he has a hand in another favourite series of books... Wildcards.

*Le Sigh*
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[Steerpike]

I love the Malazan books are well.

Too much money tied up in GRRMs series. There will be an 'official' ending whether he's alive to write it or not. If not, they'll do like they're doing with Robert Jordan's last book and get someone else to write it.

[gideon_thorne]

Steerpike wrote:
I love the Malazan books are well.

Too much money tied up in GRRMs series. There will be an 'official' ending whether he's alive to write it or not. If not, they'll do like they're doing with Robert Jordan's last book and get someone else to write it.

Course, in Robert Jordan's case 75% of it was written, as well as the ending. And Jordan left loads of verbal and written notes. Not to mention Jordan's wife actually is the editor of the series.
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[Steerpike]

gideon_thorne wrote:
Course, in Robert Jordan's case 75% of it was written, as well as the ending. And Jordan left loads of verbal and written notes. Not to mention Jordan's wife actually is the editor of the series.

True. Let's hope GRRM has extensively annotated, outlined, etc. so that the whole thing is already plotted out and someone could work with it if need be.

Of course, hopefully that will never be needed.