Malazan Empire: ASoIaF pilot greenlit on HBO - Malazan Empire

Jump to content

  • 29 Pages +
  • « First
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • Last »

ASoIaF pilot greenlit on HBO Hopefully series order soon.. Rate Topic: -----

#331 User is offline   Ceda Cicero 

  • Ceda of Team Quick Ben
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 1,053
  • Joined: 12-February 09

Posted 25 January 2011 - 12:13 AM

View PostBauchelain the Evil, on 24 January 2011 - 06:31 PM, said:

View PostBriar King, on 23 January 2011 - 11:51 PM, said:

I ll have to look that up. Ive never heard of that show.


Ehm. I believe Ulrik is referring to the ASoIaF character called the Red Viper not to a show.


I would, however, give my left nut to see a mini-series prequel spinoff on the Red Viper. Oberyn Martell = the shit.

View PostIlluyankas, on 07 April 2011 - 08:37 PM, said:

How do you rape a cave? Do you ask, "You want to fuck, yes?" hear the echo come back, "Yes... es... es..." and get your barnacle-gouged groove on?

0

#332 User is offline   Ulrik 

  • Highest Marshall of Mott Irregulars
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 1,104
  • Joined: 04-August 09
  • Location:Czech Republic

Posted 25 January 2011 - 09:42 PM

Yup, I meant legendary guy with spear, not the car :p (damn, wasnt there some shitty series called Red Viper?)
Adept Ulrik - Highest Marshall of Quick Ben's Irregulars
Being optimistic´s worthless if it means ignoring the suffering of this world. Worse than worthless. It´s bloody evil.
- Fiddler
0

#333 User is offline   Tyr 

  • Lieutenant
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 132
  • Joined: 03-November 10

Posted 26 January 2011 - 02:29 PM

Yeh, it was sorta cool seeing everyone sit the iron throne - but we all know Bronn's ass will be on that chair by the end of the series.

Long live the King.
1

#334 User is offline   McLovin 

  • Cutlery Enthusiast
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 2,828
  • Joined: 19-March 04
  • Location:Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Interests:Knives. Stabbing. Stabbing with knives.

Posted 26 January 2011 - 04:02 PM

My money's on Hodor.
OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.
0

#335 User is offline   Fist Gamet 

  • Mortal Sword
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 1,106
  • Joined: 10-March 03
  • Location:Wales...and London!
  • Interests:Writing, reading, writing, climbing, writing, scuba diving and writing (not at the same time)

Posted 27 January 2011 - 09:35 PM

With such a good cast and HBO's history of making some terrific TV I am very much looking forwards to this. I suspect I will have to avoid all comparisons to the books and just enjoy the show for what it is.
Victory is mine!
0

#336 User is offline   QuickTidal 

  • Lord of the Kicks
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 22,429
  • Joined: 05-November 05
  • Location:Victoria Peak
  • Interests:DoubleStamping. Movies. Reading.

Posted 27 January 2011 - 10:00 PM

View PostMcLovin, on 26 January 2011 - 04:02 PM, said:

My money's on Hodor.


Me too.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
0

#337 User is offline   QuickTidal 

  • Lord of the Kicks
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 22,429
  • Joined: 05-November 05
  • Location:Victoria Peak
  • Interests:DoubleStamping. Movies. Reading.

Posted 27 January 2011 - 10:02 PM

Also...

HBO shop has two different T-Shirt designs (WANT!)....Enjoy!

http://store.hbo.com...=PRF-TV2-802219
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
0

#338 User is offline   amphibian 

  • Ribbit
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 8,125
  • Joined: 28-September 06
  • Location:Upstate NY
  • Interests:Hopping around

Posted 28 January 2011 - 03:35 AM

View PostBriar King, on 28 January 2011 - 12:44 AM, said:

Im really scared of the changes on this one from Books to Show. I really Really REALLY dont want to dissappointed. I suspect I wont be but it has been worrying me lately. We all know how most book to screen adapations go.

Look at the trailers. Look at the authorial endorsement and involvement. Look at the audience response.

So far, your hopes should be pretty high. They seem to have gotten the mood right - which is crucial.

Now quit being a baby and vote with your dollars for the good shit.
I survived the Permian and all I got was this t-shirt.
1

#339 User is offline   Ulrik 

  • Highest Marshall of Mott Irregulars
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 1,104
  • Joined: 04-August 09
  • Location:Czech Republic

Posted 28 January 2011 - 09:30 PM

Well,each time we´ll find people desperate (or angry) from fact, that some crucial scene, like dunno, Eddard taking dump at Kings Landing isnt involved... I´ll be prepared for them.
Adept Ulrik - Highest Marshall of Quick Ben's Irregulars
Being optimistic´s worthless if it means ignoring the suffering of this world. Worse than worthless. It´s bloody evil.
- Fiddler
0

#340 User is offline   Primateus 

  • E Pluribus Anus
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 2,353
  • Joined: 03-July 10
  • Location:A bigger town, but still small.
  • Interests:Stuff, lots of stuff!

Posted 29 January 2011 - 09:43 AM

I know I probably should read the series, but I have to say that I might be, let us say "able" for lack of a better word, to better enjoy the tv series simply because I won't be expecting some, like Ulrik said, crucial scene like Eddard taking a dump on the throne or whatever.

That's the problem with most book, game, comicbook, whatever adaptions. There's always the rabid fanboys screaming and shouting that some ultimately irrelevant detail wasn't included.

Spoiler


In any case, I think I'll be better able to enjoy it without having seen it. ASoIaF is, I am told, nowhere near as complicated as Malazan book of the Fallen.
Screw you all, and have a nice day!

0

#341 User is offline   Whisperzzzzzzz 

  • Reaper's Fail
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 2,503
  • Joined: 10-May 10
  • Location:Westchester, NY

Posted 29 January 2011 - 08:43 PM

View PostPrimateus, on 29 January 2011 - 09:43 AM, said:

I know I probably should read the series, but I have to say that I might be, let us say "able" for lack of a better word, to better enjoy the tv series simply because I won't be expecting some, like Ulrik said, crucial scene like Eddard taking a dump on the throne or whatever.

That's the problem with most book, game, comicbook, whatever adaptions. There's always the rabid fanboys screaming and shouting that some ultimately irrelevant detail wasn't included.

Spoiler


In any case, I think I'll be better able to enjoy it without having seen it. ASoIaF is, I am told, nowhere near as complicated as Malazan book of the Fallen.


I think they're both equally as complicated, but ASoIaF doesn't skip around as much and explains things a bit more deeply than Malazan usually does.
0

#342 User is offline   amphibian 

  • Ribbit
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 8,125
  • Joined: 28-September 06
  • Location:Upstate NY
  • Interests:Hopping around

Posted 29 January 2011 - 09:05 PM

I've forgotten - did Eddard really take a dump on the throne?

If the Kingsguard aren't all in white, what would visually denote them as different from the knights around them? Perhaps we'll spend more time with them on-screen, instead of them being bit-players...
I survived the Permian and all I got was this t-shirt.
0

#343 User is offline   Bauchelain the Evil 

  • Greatest necromancer ever
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 1,859
  • Joined: 15-March 08
  • Location:Italy
  • Not much

Posted 29 January 2011 - 09:12 PM

If I remember correctly, they'll have gold cloaks trimmed with white. Which, I think, is a horrible choice because it would be rather difficult to distinguish them with the City Guard.
Adept of Team Quick Ben

I greet you as guests and so will not crush the life from you and devour your soul with peals of laughter. No, instead, I will make tea-Gothos
0

#344 User is offline   Macros 

  • D'ivers Fuckwits
  • Group: High House Mafia
  • Posts: 9,342
  • Joined: 28-January 08
  • Location:Ulster, disputed zone, British Empire.

Posted 29 January 2011 - 11:11 PM

white was removed because it was shitty to film wasnt it?
Anyone who comp[lains about an adaptation because of costume alterations like this need slapped.
I'll listen to legitimate complains involving plot lines but seeing as GRRM is so heavily invovled they can be put to bed as well.
0

#345 User is offline   Werthead 

  • God
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 4,070
  • Joined: 14-November 05

Posted 02 February 2011 - 02:15 PM

Very sad news: Margaret John, who was cast as Old Nan in GAME OF THRONES, has passed away at the age of 84. She can be heard in voiceover for one of the trailers for the show. She is best-known for playing Doris in GAVIN & STACEY and has also guested in DOCTOR WHO (both the old and new series).

All of her scenes for Season 1 have been shot already, so she'll still appear in Season 1 of the show. Her character has a small role in the second book so I assume they'll either recast or simply drop the character for the second season.
Visit The Wertzone for reviews of SF&F books, DVDs and computer games!


"Try standing out in a winter storm all night and see how tough you are. Start with that. Then go into a bar and pick a fight and see how tough you are. And then go home and break crockery over your head. Start with those three and you'll be good to go."
- Bruce Campbell on how to be as cool as he is
0

#346 User is offline   Whisperzzzzzzz 

  • Reaper's Fail
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 2,503
  • Joined: 10-May 10
  • Location:Westchester, NY

Posted 02 February 2011 - 07:44 PM

View PostWerthead, on 02 February 2011 - 02:15 PM, said:

Very sad news: Margaret John, who was cast as Old Nan in GAME OF THRONES, has passed away at the age of 84. She can be heard in voiceover for one of the trailers for the show. She is best-known for playing Doris in GAVIN & STACEY and has also guested in DOCTOR WHO (both the old and new series).

All of her scenes for Season 1 have been shot already, so she'll still appear in Season 1 of the show. Her character has a small role in the second book so I assume they'll either recast or simply drop the character for the second season.



Is it sad that the first thing I thought was "At least they filmed all her scenes"?
0

#347 User is offline   McLovin 

  • Cutlery Enthusiast
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 2,828
  • Joined: 19-March 04
  • Location:Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Interests:Knives. Stabbing. Stabbing with knives.

Posted 02 February 2011 - 07:45 PM

View Postamphibian, on 29 January 2011 - 09:05 PM, said:

I've forgotten - did Eddard really take a dump on the throne?


Spoiler

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.
0

#348 User is offline   Ceda Cicero 

  • Ceda of Team Quick Ben
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 1,053
  • Joined: 12-February 09

Posted 02 February 2011 - 08:06 PM

View PostMcLovin, on 02 February 2011 - 07:45 PM, said:

View Postamphibian, on 29 January 2011 - 09:05 PM, said:

I've forgotten - did Eddard really take a dump on the throne?


Spoiler



You're right, but there's still been no shortage of turds on the Iron Throne. :)

View PostIlluyankas, on 07 April 2011 - 08:37 PM, said:

How do you rape a cave? Do you ask, "You want to fuck, yes?" hear the echo come back, "Yes... es... es..." and get your barnacle-gouged groove on?

1

#349 User is offline   QuickTidal 

  • Lord of the Kicks
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 22,429
  • Joined: 05-November 05
  • Location:Victoria Peak
  • Interests:DoubleStamping. Movies. Reading.

Posted 03 February 2011 - 05:36 PM

I hope the show succeeds as it will be a very good swansong for her to have been involved in at the end of her life, as her last role. Very sad news though indeed.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
0

#350 User is offline   Werthead 

  • God
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 4,070
  • Joined: 14-November 05

Posted 11 February 2011 - 08:17 PM

Pronounciation guide for the TV series. Mostly it seems the same as the books, although 'Ser' is prononuced 'SAIR' for some reason (it's just an earlier spelling of 'Sir'). Harrenhal is also pronounced oddly (HAIR-in-hall). Generally, not too bad.
Visit The Wertzone for reviews of SF&F books, DVDs and computer games!


"Try standing out in a winter storm all night and see how tough you are. Start with that. Then go into a bar and pick a fight and see how tough you are. And then go home and break crockery over your head. Start with those three and you'll be good to go."
- Bruce Campbell on how to be as cool as he is
0

Share this topic:


  • 29 Pages +
  • « First
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • Last »


Fast Reply

  

1 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users