The second book, “Clash of Kings” was the first to make the best-seller lists, and I got inquiries from various producers and filmmakers who were interested in the rights. Of course the irony of all this is the project that I thought most unlikely to ever be filmed – the project that was actually unfilmable – is now going to be this big show on HBO. You’re the director, you’re the special effectsĬoordinator, you’re the costume department, and you don’t have to worry about a budget. Everything you can’t do in television and film, of course you can do in prose because you’re everything there. I can have a cast of characters that numbers in the hundreds. I can have all the special effects I want. My first love, in the 90s, I said I’m going to do something that is just as big as I want to do. Revised them several times, my favorites were always the first drafts, which had all the good stuff in it which I had to take out because it was too expensive and too big. Although the later drafts of those scripts were always more polished, because I’d I would combine characters and trim out giant battle scenes, make it produceable. So then I would go in and I would start cutting.
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