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khorum

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The problem is the series' climactic episodes will make Blackwater and S4e9's production costs look like a drop in the bucket.

The series is gonna have to have a final Stalingrad moment at some point. All the remaining survivors finally end up in one desperate, hopeless siege against the full force of the Night King, prolly down in KL or Dorne or the vale or some shit. Dany's down to one dragon and a few unsullied, Jon's been resurrected a bazillion times (Stoneheart donates herself to rez him at some point), Tyrion ends up commanding the golden company so his survivors are there too but they all have to hold out long enough for Grandmaester Samwell to complete a ritual that raises a new wall or nukes everything from orbit or something.

One way or another it'll be a massive battle they'll need to show eventually and they'll need to find some super-talented Ethiopian or North Korean CGI studio who can do WETA-level shit CG for peanuts to do it any justice.
 
Alex

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What episode was it when the debt situation is described and when Stannis visits the Iron Bank? I need to see that again.
 
Quaid

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Winds of Winter releasing in early 2015 and A Dream of Spring releasing in early 2018 is not entirely out of the realm of possibility yet.

I feel like if I were an author in GRRM's situation that it would be a cold day in hell before I let someone else tell the conclusion to MY story before I did. It's unlikely, but he may bust his ass and finish the series in <4 years.
 
Mist

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They're not cancelling Game of Thrones no matter how much it costs. It has close to 20 million live+7 day viewers now. HBO's contract gives them a huge cut of all the "Game of Thrones" branded merchandise, plus DVD sales/digital distribution royalties, FOREVER. Even if it doesn't make money in the short term, which it probably still does, it is a constant revenue stream for decades, nearly akin to fucking Star Wars.
 
khorum

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HBO alreadygreenlit seasons 5 and 6,similar to how seasons 3 and 4 were greenlit together and for pretty much the same reason they split asos into two seasons. There's a TON of content there even without the shitty greyjoys in affc and Tyrion riverboatting with Aegon in adwd.
 
khorum

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They evened out the Brienne and Bran PoVs into s3 and 4 but there's still a ton of development for the Faith Militant/High Sparrow uprising and Cersei/Margaery's trials. Arya's training in braavos will prolly be shot in spain along with the sunspear stuff. Just the setups for Dorne/Trystane, Arya's ninja training and the whole arc of Cersei skullfucking the economy into an khomeini-type uprising is a lot for a season. Theyll touch base with sansa, maybe throw in LSH if they're ever gonna have her in the show and then do whatever theyre gonna do with Tyrion's roadtrip to Mereen... there's plenty for a busy season.

EDIT: oddly DnD actually just responded to the whole content thing for S5 in theirmost recent post-season interview:
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DAVID BENIOFF & DAN WEISS: After finishing season 3, we were nervous about season 4-we'd been looking forward to the Red Wedding for so long that once we shot it, we feared everything beyond that would seem like an anti-climax. We grew less nervous when we outlined season 4, less nervous still when we wrote the episodes, and all nervousness evaporated when we saw the directors' cuts and knew we had a great season in hand. For season 5, again, the fear started to dissipate when we outlined it and realized how much story we had to tell. Now that we're nearly finished with the first drafts of each episode, we see no reason why the coming season shouldn't be the strongest yet.
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Cybsled

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That same interview also confirmed 7 seasons and they are grilling GRRM hardcore for more stuff (ie, future book 6 and 7 materials). They also confirmed they are murdering some characters that won't be killed in the books. Hmm....

Jaime going to Dorne maybe gives me a bad feeling then...
 
Drinsic

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If Jaime has an important role to play later, I doubt they kill him if Gurrm doesn't. They've killed off characters like Grenn and Pip. Also, has the Jaime going to Dorne thing even been confirmed? Thought it was some bogus script line in an audition.
 
khorum

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You want a nerd panic? Then think about this: If you were the showrunner and you had the ending years in advance then you know now that it'll cost many hundreds of millions to film the series climax in a way that does justice to the books.... Then you have a real production/financial/structural need to get YOUR version of that ending out before the books set the expectations instead of the other way around.
 
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Quaid_sl said:
Winds of Winter releasing in early 2015 and A Dream of Spring releasing in early 2018 is not entirely out of the realm of possibility yet.

I feel like if I were an author in GRRM's situation that it would be a cold day in hell before I let someone else tell the conclusion to MY story before I did. It's unlikely, but he may bust his ass and finish the series in <4 years.
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Is that actually enough time though? I'd assume it takes a while to adapt a script from the book, and then it sounds like 6+ months of shooting. Early 2015 doesn't leave a whole lot of time to shoot season 6. I don't have any clue how long these things take to edit. Especially with SFX.
 
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Cybsled_sl said:
That same interview also confirmed 7 seasons and they are grilling GRRM hardcore for more stuff (ie, future book 6 and 7 materials). They also confirmed they are murdering some characters that won't be killed in the books. Hmm....

Jaime going to Dorne maybe gives me a bad feeling then...
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I think that means characters like Jojen, not main characters.
 
Cybsled

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Ya, but the book implies Jojen is dead, so no major change there beyond Bran doesn't become a accidental cannibal.
 
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