Game of Thrones: George R. R. Martin Teases Different Ending For The Books Compared To The TV Series

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It’s been more than three years since the Game of Thrones TV series concluded on HBOMax, and the fans are still waiting for the next book in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. The latest book, A Dance with Dragons, was published in July 2011, and there are two forthcoming books that are set to conclude the series. Considering that the TV series ended, some fans thought that the ending of the book series is now spoiled, but Martin now says that will not be the case.

“Another question that I get a lot, especially since the end of GAME OF THRONES on HBO, is whether A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, will end the same way.  An architect would be able to give a short, concise, simple answer to that, but I am much more of a gardener.   My stories grow and evolve and change as I write them.  I generally know where I am going, sure… the final destinations, the big set pieces, they have been [in] my head for years… for decades, in the case of A SONG OF ICE & FIRE. […] The novels are much bigger and much much more complex than the series.   Certain things that happened on HBO will not happen in the books.  And vice versa.” — George R. R. Martin

The two forthcoming books The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring are widely anticipated, especially because the ending of the TV series left fans disappointed. Many fans agreed that the ending felt rushed, so much has happened in so little time, without the proper character development. There were even petitions to reboot the whole final season, although the stars defended the series and writers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, the duo that fans blamed for destroying the final season of one of the best series ever made.

Apart from two final books, Game of Thrones fans are also looking forward to the prequel series House of the Dragon, which is set to premiere on HBO next month. Jon Snow spin-off series is also in development with Kit Harington set to reprise the role.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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