“The Winds of Winter” will be “quite” different from “Game of Thrones”, according to George RR Martin

The story of ‘HBO’s Game of Thrones is based on George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, a literary saga that didn’t end even after the series aired. The last book in this series of novels is “Winds of Winter”, a delivery that, according to the writer, will be very different from the one seen on the TV show.

George RR Martin was originally thought to have wrapped up the “A Song of Ice and Fire” saga before “Game of Thrones” began its final season, so showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss could draw inspiration from the season finale. . to close the hit the HBO series. Far from expectations, that’s not what happened.

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David Benioff and DB Weiss managed to give him a “Game of Thrones” ending in its eighth season and in the meantime, George RR Martin went on to write the penultimate episode of ‘A Song of Fire and Ice’: ‘Winds of Winter’. However, three years have passed since the series ended and the writer has not yet published the long-awaited novel that would give the official closure to this dark fantasy story.

Despite this, the author has dedicated himself to giving several advances on the novel during all this time and in one of the most recent he assures that, ‘Winds of Winter ‘is very different from’ Game of Thrones”. Namely, the ending that was seen in the HBO series may have nothing to do with it and the canonical history of this universe will have an alternate fate.

Yes, some of the things you saw on HBO in “Game of Thrones” you will also see in “The Winds of Winter” (although perhaps not in the same way) … but a lot of the rest will be quite different, “he wrote in his official blog.

The characters who died in “Game of Thrones” will survive in the novel

In turn, George RR Martin dared to provide some great details about “Winds of Winter” in relation to its similarities and differences with “Game of Thrones”. Among them, he revealed that the story will allow the arrival of new characters never seen in television series; Not to mention some GOT deaths won’t happen in the book and vice versa.

Not all characters who survived to the end of “Game of Thrones” will survive to the end of “A Song of Fire and Ice”, and not all characters who died in “Game of Thrones” will die in “A Song of Fire. and Ice ‘”, he added.

According to the author, these creative writing decisions would happen naturally, because the adaptations usually differ from the original works and the case of GOT and “A Song of Fire and Ice” is no exception. So audiences can really expect a different story than what they saw on HBO in 2019.

Currently, George RR Martin is working on a chapter on Tyrion Lannister, played in the series by Peter Dinkalge; Although he hasn’t given any details about it. For now there is no estimated date on the publication of ‘Winds of Winter’, but in what is revealed; You can expect the release of “House of the Dragon”, the GOT spin off coming to HBO Max on July 21st.