George R.R. Martin Doubles Down on Issues With Screenwriters Making Adaptations Their Own: ‘999 Times Out of 1,000 They Make It Worse’

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/george-rr-martin-slams-adaptations-writers-making-stories-their-own-1236017804/

18 comments

  1. Well maybe if someone would actually finish writing his books in a timely fashion, screenwriters would not have to make stuff up themselves.

  2. Well, they couldn’t fucking make it his, could they?

  4. If this waste of air would get off his lazy ass and finish his book then he wouldn’t have to worry about anyone reimagining his work in a shitty way… but hey.. semantics!

  6. *Sad Wheel of Time noises*

    You can’t even complain about work being incomplete. There are 15 goddamn books out there.

    Edit: the only good thing out of this whole shitshow were the animated shorts in x-ray. Perfect for mood setting before a re-read.

  8. He ruined his own series by not finishing it. He can’t finish it. This guy gets way too much credit

  11. Writing a novel vs a screenplay are also very different things, and just because you’re good at one doesn’t mean you’re necessarily good at the other.

    Adaptations are difficult, things need to be cut and made different to translate the central ideas of a novel into a movie or a series. The constraints are also very different.

    Also, he’s now famous enough that he can put in the contract that he can exert author control and have the final word or even write it itself, so let’s see that genius script writing at work!

  12. Fun fact – that makes fight club a 1 in a 1000 adaptation as Chuck P likes the adaptation (movie) than his own work (the book).

  14. At this point I hope he never finished the series. He deserves the tarnished reputation.

  15. This is the part where I point out by virtue of seasons 6 thru 8 existing, they are better than nothing.

  17. Well if this doesn’t feel like a no shit sherlock moment, I don’t know what will.

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