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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson
George R.R. Martin defends Game of Thrones series ender….Kinda
*Exhale
Our bodies are still reeling from the closing in this chapter of our lives entitled “Game of Thrones.” Some hated the series ender, while others called it forward thinking and brilliant. If any haters have anything negative to say towards showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss, they should respond simply with a quote from UFC champion Max Halloway:
“IT IS WHAT IT IS!”
George R.R. Martin, the brilliant but painstakingly slow author of the Song of Ice and Fire book series on which the HBO series was based, addressed the elephant in the room; should the series finale be completely different than that of the show?
Well… yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes.
George had this to say:
I am working in a very different medium than David and Dan, never forget. They had six hours for this final season. I expect these last two books of mine will fill 3000 manuscript pages between them before I’m done… and if more pages and chapters and scenes are needed, I’ll add them. And of course the butterfly effect will be at work as well; those of you who follow this Not A Blog will know that I’ve been talking about that since season one. There are characters who never made it onto the screen at all, and others who died in the show but still live in the books … so if nothing else, the readers will learn what happened to Jeyne Poole, Lady Stoneheart, Penny and her pig, Skahaz Shavepate, Arianne Martell, Darkstar, Victarion Greyjoy, Ser Garlan the Gallant, Aegon VI, and a myriad of other characters both great and small that viewers of the show never had the chance to meet. And yes, there will be unicorns… of a sort…
In summary yes, it’s going to be different, so some of those fans who’ve been petitioning for a RE-DO on a new season should get their satisfaction from the book, and not the series.
Either way, George needs to put the pedal to the medal on his pages, the people are waiting and we’re going to riot if we don’t get our book ending. Very soon!
AMC Stubs Destroys MoviePass to Become No. 1
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE! The AMC Theatre has announced their movie ticket subscription business ‘Stubs A-List’ has added 200,000 members in 2019 alone and has surpassed 800,000+ total subscribers. The trailblazer of this business model was MoviePass who in 2018 at their high point had 3+ Million Subs before flying off the rails causing them to be de-listed on the Nasdaq. MoviePass is still around, they’re on oxygen … but still breathing (with many thinking that they had sunk into that goo that Arnold Schwarzenegger fell into at the end of Terminator 2).
CEO of AMC Adam Aron in true movie villain fashion issued a press release, effectively gloating in all of their enemies failures.
“With AMC Stubs A-List, we believe we’ve cracked the code to make this concept successful for AMC. While others have tried and failed in this space, A-List is only getting stronger.”
Do your thing Adam Aron, well deserved … and to think, I’m still not a member.
Quentin Tarantino begs movie goers in Cannes to be good movie goers.
The screenwriter’s go-to bible is “Pulp Fiction” a film which made it’s premier in Cannes in 1994. Twenty-five years later, Quentin Tarantino has penned an open letter begging those at the Cannes Film Festival, NOT to spoil his newest creation Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, which premiers Tuesday on the Croisette.
Tarantino posted a signed letter to Instagram and Twitter in which he wrote, ‘I love Cinema. You love Cinema. It’s the journey of discovering a story for the first time.
“I’m thrilled to be here in Cannes to share ‘Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood’ with the festival audience. The cast and crew have worked hard to create something original, and I only ask that everyone avoids revealing anything that would prevent later audiences from experiencing the film in the same way. Thank you.”
In summary… NO SPOILING! PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
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