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skypirate ([info]skypirate) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2009-07-20 17:45:00
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Current mood:*thud*

A Song of Ice and Fire Casting
So, for those who don't know, the really popular fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is going to be made into a tv show by HBO and BBC. That news isn't that new. What is new is some of the casting. And boy, is it stellar.

Today we got the news from George R.R. Martin that SEAN BEAN is going to be Ned Stark (the main character).

Furthermore, Harry Lloyd (from Robin Hood and Doctor Who) is going to be Viserys, Mark Addy will be Robert Baratheon and a theatre actor, Kit Harington, is going to be Jon Snow (he of the kickass albino direwolf).

Also, Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister.

This show has the potential of becoming the best show ever. You heard it here, folks


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[info]bigbigtruck
2009-07-20 05:01 pm UTC (link)

Also, Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister.

Aw yiss

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[info]pandonkey
2009-07-20 11:59 pm UTC (link)
Yes. I'd watch it for him alone.

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[info]bigbigtruck
2009-07-21 02:02 am UTC (link)
He's one of my favorite actors; I can't wait to see him take on such a great character.

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[info]mmanurere
2009-07-20 05:32 pm UTC (link)
From what I can see, I will have no trouble believing any of those actors as any of those characters. It's an island of casting win in a year of casting FAIL.

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[info]lady7jane
2009-07-20 05:45 pm UTC (link)
If anyone follows his blog regularly, any news on the book?

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[info]skypirate
2009-07-20 05:52 pm UTC (link)
He decided not to set any more deadlines for A Dance with Dragons because he keeps failing at getting things done on time (the reason why some people are getting rather tetchy and also the cause of Neil Gaiman's GRRM Is Not Your Bitch post). He's had some seriously unproductive periods and then some good ones.

He's just returned from Finland from some cons and now he's going to Worldcon. Aaaand, that's it. His progress posts about ADwD are scanty.

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[info]ravenscanary
2009-07-20 07:52 pm UTC (link)
He was quoted by some blogger who attended his Q&As in Finland as saying he feels he'll be done by October at this point, which means, he said, a Spring hardcover release.

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[info]undomielregina
2009-07-20 08:06 pm UTC (link)
I'll believe that when I see it.

I really enjoyed those books the first time through, but in the intervening time, I ended up spotting all the terrible descriptive metaphors and the icky attitude toward sexuality and I find them hard to read now.

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[info]ravenscanary
2009-07-20 09:10 pm UTC (link)
I'm not sure I believe it, either, but I'm just reporting what I heard.

Some of the actual writing - like metaphor use - does leave something to be desired.

However, I'll excuse the "icky attitude toward sexuality" considering that the chapters are the POV of people who are largely icky, themselves, to say the least. Hell, even the most sympathetic characters leave a lot to be desired in terms of morality.

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[info]undomielregina
2009-07-20 09:17 pm UTC (link)
It's not so much the attitude as displayed by the characters as the fact that the two f/f scenes made my skin crawl with their combination of coercion and being written really...well, like a male fantasy of lesbian sex, which, eew. In general, any time there's sex, I want to run the other way because even the supposedly healthy scenes (like Jon Snow's tryst beyond the wall) give me the willies.

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[info]ravenscanary
2009-07-20 09:27 pm UTC (link)
Oh, yeah, they're not...sexy sex scenes, by any stretch of the imagination. I think they're generally as creepy as the violence, if not more so, including the ones that aren't explicitly set up to be that way. That I understand.

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(Anonymous)
2009-07-23 08:30 am UTC (link)
Semi-relatedly, it's been a couple years since I bothered reading one of those things, but I remember there being some characters in the first couple of books who were, what are they called, "women." But I am sure they will get around to casting those lesser parts in due course. Priorities, etc.

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[info]lady7jane
2009-07-20 08:06 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. Might be time to start rereading the first four then, so that I'll remember what the hell is going on.

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[info]_goblin_
2009-07-20 09:39 pm UTC (link)
He was quoted by some blogger who attended his Q&As in Finland as saying he feels he'll be done by October

The news about the casting made me happy, but this makes me flail around the room in transports of glee.

And now I'll forget you said anything so I won't be too disappointed if the book doesn't show up for another three years.

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[info]sithwitch13
2009-07-20 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Bouncing and squealing like a motherfucker here, and planning to rewatch "Equilibrium" for him when I get off of work.

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[info]demonbean
2009-07-20 08:52 pm UTC (link)
Boromir, squee!

...nothing ever turns out well for Sean Bean's characters.

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2009-07-20 09:18 pm UTC (link)
I dunno about that, he ended up okay in Black Beauty.

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[info]bangoskank
2009-07-21 12:13 am UTC (link)
This won't break -that- trend.

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[info]demonbean
2009-07-21 12:57 am UTC (link)
I know, I watched Goldeneye the other night and realized that the trend is there, and it is sad...

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[info]cairea
2009-07-21 03:09 am UTC (link)
He's Zeus in The Lightning Thief! Zeus makes it through the books all right, at least!

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[info]sgaana
2009-07-21 03:26 am UTC (link)
One word: Odysseus.

Well, also -- Sharpe's not dead yet! No, really! (He's... snogging women in India half his age, apparently, but what the heck.)

But basically, this is just SO PERFECT. Because long, long ago, I first read "A Game of Thrones", and I was like, "This Ned Stark guy is the only person I can STAND, in fact I rather like him...", and I have to admit, I was kind of picturing him as Sean Bean, and... then I got to the end of the book. And I've never read anything else by GRRM. "Grr" indeed.

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[info]ymfaery
2009-07-23 07:55 pm UTC (link)
...his character didn't die in "Ronin," at least? >.>a

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[info]brennalarose
2009-07-20 11:00 pm UTC (link)
Kit's pretty...

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[info]notbulgarian
2009-07-20 11:09 pm UTC (link)
Dear tv people, I have resisted my friend's attempts to get me into this series for 7 years. Now I have to go beg him for books. Damn!

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(Anonymous)
2009-07-21 12:10 am UTC (link)
Harry Lloyd? Damn, I might actually have to watch this.

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[info]inarticulate
2009-07-21 12:35 am UTC (link)
Well, I'm interested. Maybe this'll give me the push to reread the first book so I can pick up the others.

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[info]persona
2009-07-21 02:39 am UTC (link)
I don't know anything about the series (though I suspect my sister will be delighted), but I have to say: your icon is awesome.

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[info]_goblin_
2009-07-21 04:53 am UTC (link)
Seconded.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-07-21 05:08 am UTC (link)
I sat through a couple of cycles just to watch it.

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[info]skypirate
2009-07-21 10:58 am UTC (link)
Haha, thanks. I made it myself so feel free to take it. Just spreading the Greek Myth love. :D

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(Anonymous)
2009-07-22 11:25 pm UTC (link)
I like this icon.

--fellow violist

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[info]skypirate
2009-07-22 11:46 pm UTC (link)
Viola > Violin, y/y? ;)

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[info]nekoneko
2009-07-21 03:34 pm UTC (link)
Thirded.

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[info]riah_chan
2009-07-21 03:53 am UTC (link)
I have never read this series but the fact that Sean Bean is playing the main character makes me want to read it... ~_~;;

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