The literary giant caught up with The Hollywood Reporter on four films he's self-financed, all based on the short stories of Howard Waldrop, and yes — where that final 'Thrones' novel is at.
He has made his bank and has no major incentive to finish the series. It’s been 13 years, the guy is 76, and he’s supposedly got two books left to go.
My money is on Sanderson getting handed the notes after Martin dies and bringing the series to an unsatisfying conclusion because, at this point, nothing will be satisfying.
Sanderson was a huge Wheel of Time fan which is part of why he could take over and finish that series. The dude reread the series after every book came out. I don’t know if he’s as huge of a fan of Game of Thrones.
Yeah, Sanderson is my favorite author of all time but I don’t see him finishing Game of Thrones. It’s a completely different style from what he writes, he probably wouldn’t even enjoy writing it, and tbh I don’t even think he would do a good job of it.
It’s about angels fucking things up for feudal humans who ride dinosaurs.
It’s wild, and I unironically love it.
There’s absolutely no way he’d have a gotten a blurb from Martin if they weren’t friends, but it’s either one of those guys or someone like Joe Abercrombie.
I read them like 5 times, no lie. I loved those books. Seriously. I spent so much time on /r/asoiaf, I had thousands and thousands of karma from there. I was really, really into it.
At this point I’m fine with letting it be dead. There are other books to read.
hotd really got me reinvested in the series, not for the asoiaf characters, but i just really want to know about the world more, i need to understand the magic more, what went down in valeria, and the children of the forest, stoneheart, the lore behind the wights and lord of light. other than davos, i could not care less what happens to these people and i never finished the hbo series, but i could only imagine that how they had me for davos something terrible must befall him but really i don’t care to know that, but i know sanderson would be able to mop up all these tasty drippings for me and he’d be so caught up in enjoying his interpretation of the lore, that he’d forget to condense it, and i’m totally here for that
I read the books, and after the show I’ve lost all interest. the two final books could miraculously come out today and I wouldn’t care in the slightest.
Nah, I read the books as they came out, loved them, went to book signings and everything. I waited furiously for him to finish the next one, and finally gave up on him years ago after he released some sample chapters, went silent, and then started getting nasty with anyone who asked him when he would be done. He’s not going to finish the series, and that’s fine, but I wish he would respect his fans and be honest about it. I genuinely don’t care about his characters anymore. Plenty of other better books to read.
Nope, I agree. I watched S01E01 and then bought all the books but I stopped reading a dance with dragons about halfway through because of the TV series and George Martin (fuck his fake middle initials) was complicit in destroying the source material. He made the choice to no longer be an author because of Hollywood money. Maybe it wasn’t possible to have the big pay day without selling your soul but he seems to have relished it.
I was under the impression that he was born George Raymond Martin and added the Richard for his pen name as a nod to Tolkien. I’m not entirely too sure what’s rubbing you in the wrong way with his “fake middle initials”, considering how many writers historically published under made up names.
As for the rest, it’s an opinion and I totally respect it - I don’t totally disagree either…
He has made his bank and has no major incentive to finish the series. It’s been 13 years, the guy is 76, and he’s supposedly got two books left to go.
My money is on Sanderson getting handed the notes after Martin dies and bringing the series to an unsatisfying conclusion because, at this point, nothing will be satisfying.
Sanderson was a huge Wheel of Time fan which is part of why he could take over and finish that series. The dude reread the series after every book came out. I don’t know if he’s as huge of a fan of Game of Thrones.
Yeah, Sanderson is my favorite author of all time but I don’t see him finishing Game of Thrones. It’s a completely different style from what he writes, he probably wouldn’t even enjoy writing it, and tbh I don’t even think he would do a good job of it.
He talked about this 8 years ago on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/4uwjq9/spoilers_everything_twow_isnt_coming_this_year_is/d6lotl1?context=3
He agrees with you. It’s not his style, he doesn’t think he’s the right person for the job, and would decline if asked to do it.
And to the point made by @[email protected], at the time he had only read the first book so it doesn’t seem that he’s in the “huge fan” category.
Maybe something has changed since then but I really doubt it.
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/pages/wheel-of-time-faq
While you are supporting me on that other point, I have to say, Sanderson was a HUGE fan of Robert Jordan
I should have worded that better. I meant that he’s not a huge fan of ASOIAF so it’s quite different from the WoT situation.
Ah that makes sense, didnt even occur to me that you could have been talking about ASOIAF haha
He actually had a writer’s circle that will probably be tapped to finish the job.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078MS44G8
It’s about angels fucking things up for feudal humans who ride dinosaurs.
It’s wild, and I unironically love it.
There’s absolutely no way he’d have a gotten a blurb from Martin if they weren’t friends, but it’s either one of those guys or someone like Joe Abercrombie.
Oh yeah it’s way too late. The damage to ASOIAF has been done. I’d rather just let it die.
Book readers would probably disagree
I read them like 5 times, no lie. I loved those books. Seriously. I spent so much time on /r/asoiaf, I had thousands and thousands of karma from there. I was really, really into it.
At this point I’m fine with letting it be dead. There are other books to read.
The wheel weaves as the wheel wills.
Ah to each there own for me I’m going crazy not knowing ‘his’ ending tbh
hotd really got me reinvested in the series, not for the asoiaf characters, but i just really want to know about the world more, i need to understand the magic more, what went down in valeria, and the children of the forest, stoneheart, the lore behind the wights and lord of light. other than davos, i could not care less what happens to these people and i never finished the hbo series, but i could only imagine that how they had me for davos something terrible must befall him but really i don’t care to know that, but i know sanderson would be able to mop up all these tasty drippings for me and he’d be so caught up in enjoying his interpretation of the lore, that he’d forget to condense it, and i’m totally here for that
Right there.
:( lol
I read the books, and after the show I’ve lost all interest. the two final books could miraculously come out today and I wouldn’t care in the slightest.
Nah, I read the books as they came out, loved them, went to book signings and everything. I waited furiously for him to finish the next one, and finally gave up on him years ago after he released some sample chapters, went silent, and then started getting nasty with anyone who asked him when he would be done. He’s not going to finish the series, and that’s fine, but I wish he would respect his fans and be honest about it. I genuinely don’t care about his characters anymore. Plenty of other better books to read.
Nope, I agree. I watched S01E01 and then bought all the books but I stopped reading a dance with dragons about halfway through because of the TV series and George Martin (fuck his fake middle initials) was complicit in destroying the source material. He made the choice to no longer be an author because of Hollywood money. Maybe it wasn’t possible to have the big pay day without selling your soul but he seems to have relished it.
I was under the impression that he was born George Raymond Martin and added the Richard for his pen name as a nod to Tolkien. I’m not entirely too sure what’s rubbing you in the wrong way with his “fake middle initials”, considering how many writers historically published under made up names.
As for the rest, it’s an opinion and I totally respect it - I don’t totally disagree either…
Can’t say I wouldn’t relish also
Sanderson did an interview and said it’s not his style, think he recommended Joe Abercrombie be the one to finish it but it’s been a while.
“50 years later…”
All is good now! Yay!
So he was never making art in the first place? Glad I never went anywhere near that franchise.