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Originally Posted by keg in kc
I'm still not sure how they're going to limit it to 7 seasons. They're really going to have to start leaving stuff out to compress the final 4.5 books into 4 seasons. I have a feeling the final season/conclusion of the series may have nothing to do with any book that GRRM will have written at the time. If I were doing it I'd stick with 2 seasons/book from this point on, or combine books 4 and 5 into 3 seasons. Which would of course get us to the currently planned series end at the conclusion of A Dance With Dragons. Leaving 3-4 more years to cover The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring.
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Yeah, except there is no way you can stretch books 4 and 5 out that much without losing the audience unless you add some action that the books dont have. Especially since most of books 4 and 5 are happening at the same time. I think you can get two seasons out of those two books at most, and I think some of that stuff is going to be covered this season already as far as Theon and Bran's stories go, and some of Dany's too. I think Book 6 will come out next year, and given where the story sits right now, book 6 could have more action than book 3 even did. We know it will have to start with two huge battles right off at Mereen and Winterfell, plus a host of other plots that are right on the brink of being good. Book 6 can be stretched out over at least two seasons I would bet. I would expect it to go something like this:
Season 4 (filmed 2013, airing 2014): Covers rest of Book 3 and parts of Books 4 and 5
Season 5 (film 2014, air 2015): Covers rest of Books 4 and 5, with maybe a few things held back.
Season 6 (film 2015, air 2016): Covers any remaining Books 4 and 5 stuff, and begining of book 6. Book 6 will be released in 2015 before show airs. Show producers will have seen early drafts of it of course in time to write their scripts.
Season 7 (film 2016, air 2017): Covers Book 6
Season 8 (film 2017, air 2018): Covers rest of Book 6 and maybe starts to creep into Book 7 even though it has not been released yet.
Season 9 (film 2018, air 2019): Covers Book 7 which will be released to public in 2019.
Season 10 (film 2019, air 2020): Finishes series.
Of course it may not last that long on HBO, though 10 years would be a great run if it does. Helps that so many people have now read the books and will watch it through to the end.
They will need to spend some time getting the audience up to speed on the secret of Jon's true parents and the Azor Ahai aspect of the story. Not sure how they will handle those parts.