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Do you have a penny jar? We used to… The other day I heard what sounded like a
car crash that I thought was from outside. MrsBlue then informed me she had
dropped something that hit the glass water cooler jug that contained something
like 30 lbs of pennies. While it did break, thankfully the whole shebang didn't explode, which is a
bit surprising when you imagine the considerable outward pressure being exerted
on the bottle by the mass of coins. Everything is cleaned up now, and the
pennies are temporarily residing in what is now an immobile cardboard box until
we can find another container for them. I think this time we will opt for
plastic.
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HBO & A Song of Fire & Ice |
Jan 18, 2007, 12:27 |
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Pasted from Martin's Not A Blog.
HBO turns 'Fire' into fantasy series
Cabler acquires rights to Martin's 'Ice'
HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin's bestselling fantasy series "A Song of Fire & Ice" into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
"Fire" is the first TV project for Benioff ("Troy") and Weiss ("Halo") and will shoot in Europe or New Zealand. Benioff and Weiss will write every episode of each season together save one, which the author (a former TV writer) will script.
The series will begin with the 1996 first book, "A Game of Thrones," and the intention is for each novel (they average 1,000 pages each) to fuel a season's worth of episodes. Martin has nearly finished the fifth installment, but won't complete the seven-book cycle until 2011.
The author will co-exec produce the series along with Management 360's Guymon Casady and Created By's Vince Gerardis.
Martin's series has drawn comparisons to J.R.R. Tolkien, because both are period epics set in imagined lands. But Martin has eschewed Tolkien's good-vs.-evil theme in favor of flawed characters from seven noble families.
The book has a decidedly adult bent, with sex and violence comparable to series like "Rome" and "Deadwood."
"They tried for 50 years to make 'Lord of the Rings' as one movie before Peter Jackson found success making three," Martin said. "My books are bigger and more complicated, and would require 18 movies. Otherwise, you'd have to choose one or two characters."
Aside from writing the most recent draft of "Halo," Weiss recently adapted the William Gibson novel "Pattern Recognition" for WB and director Peter Weir.
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