New Years Anticipation on Game of Thrones
January 4, 2010 by Jon Hunter · Leave a Comment
New Year has seen the Buzz and anticipation continue about Game of Thrones from some of the biggest publications round, James Poniewozik of Time, when listing his 11th most awaited items of 2010 says
“Game of Thrones. OK, we don’t know if this show will exist, and if it ever does, it may not see air until 2011. But the new year should at least finally bring word as to whether the much-buzzed-about HBO pilot for George R. R. Martin’s grown-up fantasy saga will become a series.”
He knows its going to be out in 2011, but it still makes his 2010 list J.
Game of Thrones also makes the list of Ken Tucker, TV critic for Entertainment Weekly who in his list for 2010, asks for
HBO commits to its adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones.
What is of interest here is these guys are mainstream critics for mainstream publications not genre writers, who are excited about Game of Thrones 3 months before the pilot gets seen by HBO, let alone the series heading into production.
Canadas MSN also got in on the act with the following quote from Kim LineKin
Series pick-up to be confirmed by HBO in March
There are already two blogs devoted to following the casting and Northern Ireland location shoot of this series’ pilot episode, which HBO hasn’t yet confirmed will air. The reason for the feverish fan interest? The series is an adaptation of the first novel in George R.R. Martin’s beloved fantasy series that uses knights, tournaments, creatures and icy locations in the service of telling human stories where villains aren’t always the bad guys and where the honourable solution isn’t always the best one in the long run. (Thanks to Time Magazine and the Chicago Tribune for these observations.) Lena Headey from “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” will play a royal woman who’s as cunning as the men around her. Peter Dinklage, Sean Bean, Jennifer Ehle and Mark Addy costar. With any luck, HBO will green light enough games to take us through all the novels in Martin’s saga.
Another piece that I have picked up is from Alex Werpin from Broadcast and Cable
Post-True Blood, the premium cable networks suddenly have a thirst for geek-friendly fare, exploring genres that otherwise may have been left to Syfy. HBO is producing a 60-minute pilot for Game of Thrones, based on the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels of George R.R. Martin. The expensive pilot garnered buzz at Comic-Con and online, with many industry observers expecting a series pickup shortly after the pilot gets delivered early this year.
This is all good news as far as the series is concerned, and I am currently thinking that the pilot must really flop, for the series not to get the green light with this kind of anticipation.
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