George RR Martin reveals: No happy ending on Game of Thrones – TV 2

Few authors have enough a so heavy pressure on him that Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin (68).

For 20 years, he started fantasyserien A song of ice and fire, the book series behind the hit TV series. Now he works frantically to finish the last two books, which have long since been overtaken by the TV series. Martin has said that he has great difficulty to limit themselves, and that the story only gets longer and longer on the way to a final period.

Now he comes with new revelations about what we can expect out of the sixth and second-to-last book.

What is darker

– There are a number of dark chapters in the book I’m writing now. It’s called the Winds of Winter, and I have told you in the 20 years that the winter is coming. Winter is the time where things die, and the cold and the ice fills the world, so this is not a happy feelgod-reading so many hope for. Some of the characters are in very dark places, he says.

– In all stories, there is a classic structure that things get worse before they get better, then it gets worse for very many, ” he explains further.

After the sixth book finally is finished, it should also be made a seventh book, A Dream of Spring. He will not tell how the long saga to end, but the reveals so that he is not fond of happy endings.

– I will not tell you how I am going to end the book, but I think that the taste of it all the more bittersweet than happy, ” he says.

It can thus appear that two of the series ‘ well-worn proverb is a good guide for what we can expect: The winter is coming and All but the must die.

Regret one thing

Martin also reveals that the book series was far more extensive than he had thought.

– Some times I look back on it and think: May it really be seven kingdoms? Five kingdoms on Westeros, it had been good, doesn’t it?

The next two books are expected to contain more than 1500 pages. The sixth book was supposed to have been completed in 2014.

In november, in the year told Martin that the book doesn’t get finished in 2016, and rather not in the beginning of 2017, but that he has canceled all other assignments until the book is finished. The publisher still has a goal that 2017 should be the year when the book sees the light of day.