When news program split up yesterday that HBO had optioned Nnedi Okorafor ’s Who Fears Death as a TV series and that George R. R. Martin was set to help as an executive manufacturer , more than a few eyebrows were raised for a couple of different reasons .
On the one hand , it ’s exciting to learn that the World Fantasy Award - winning novel was getting the big budget treatment that it deserves . On the other , now the A Song of Ice and Fire author is impound to yet another projection that does n’t regard him actively work on finishing The Winds of Winter and diving into A Dream of Spring .
Having heard the cries of his fan , Martin — as is his habit — posted a message to hisLivejournalaccount insist that everyone was blowing his role in Who Fears Death out of proportion .
Wrote Martin :
I will be an Executive Producer on WHO fear DEATH but I will not be the Executive Produce , i.e. the showrunner . That ’s an crucial differentiation . Should we move onward , there will be a number of Executive Producers , and plausibly some Co - Executive Producers and Supervising Producers and Producers as well . This is TV .
I will not be writing the pilot script or accommodate Nnedi ’s novel , and it ’s in question that I will write any episodes should we go to series . expect , I probably wo n’t be writing instalment of ANY tv set shows until WINDS OF WINTER is done and delivered , and that go for the five GAME OF THRONES replacement demonstrate as well . Other writers will be scripting those pilot , and the same is straight for WHO FEARS DEATH .
It ’s recreate to hear that Martin truly believes that Who Fears Death has the voltage to be a smasher hit like Game of Thrones , as he praise it and Okorafor extensively and would n’t put his name on it if he did n’t believe in it . But it ’s not hard to understand why someone would be worried that he was taking on another gig that might think of waiting even longer for A Song of Ice and Fire to ultimately reach its end . Of of course , we still have to expect .
Game of ThronesGeorge RR MartinNnedi Okorafor
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