realcaseyrollinsJul 24, 2023

George R.R. Martin Feels Strikes “Will Be Long And Bitter”, Says His HBO Deal “Was Suspended” & Gives Update On ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 2

George R.R. Martin is giving updates on all the projects he’s involved in and weighed in on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. In his latest blog entry, Martin says that the WGA strike “is …

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George R.R. Martin Feels Strikes "Will Be Long And Bitter", Says His HBO Deal "Was Suspended" & Gives Update On 'House Of The Dragon' Season 2

George R.R. Martin is giving updates on all the projects he’s involved in and weighed in on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. In his latest blog entry, Martin says that the WGA strike “is …

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Show threadATQJul 24, 2023
Any excuse to not work on Winds of Winter, huh George? Of course, I’d probably call it quits to if I’d be relegated to little more than a fan fic writer of my own story.
Show threadresidue2173Jul 24, 2023

Winds of Winter has literally nothing to do with the strike because it’s a book. He’s perfectly okay to write for Elden Ring 2, for that matter.

If anything, the strike should be good news for the people who still care about asoiaf because now George can’t spend all his time writing five different pilots that are all going to get cancelled or promote his tv shows on conventions.

Show threadrealcaseyrollins
IDK, what if he has a deal for Winds of Winter with HBO? He'd then be a writer, working for the studios that the WGA is striking against.
Jul 24, 2023 at 8:19pmWeb
Show threadresidue2173Jul 25, 2023

That’s not how this works at all. I honestly don’t know how to explain to you that tv shows and books are different things without sounding like an extremely condescending asshole, so I won’t even try.

The strike rules come from the union, not from the greedy capitalists trying to fuck over the writers. There’s absolutely no reason for union to have a rule forbidding people from writing books. Especially since HBO can’t even adapt the book into the TV show, anyway. GoT is over, they’re not going to reboot season 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 to show us the WoW adaptation.