Adaptation

I don’t read much fantasy, but some of you know I’m a big fan of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Fire & Ice” series. There are four books in the series thus far and each one is a doorstop, bursting with multiple subplots and a huge cast of characters. I’ve long thought these books were unfilmable, but HBO doesn’t share my view. It just acquired the rights to turn the series into a television drama, with each season corresponding to a novel in the series. The material does seem to meet the prerequisites for an HBO series. It’s dark, violent, and replete with sex scenes. I’m guessing that the on-screen results will either be brilliant or a train wreck. But I can’t wait to see which it is.