'Game of Thrones' Season 5: George R.R. Martin Says There Will Be More Deaths to Come in HBO Show
"Game of Thrones" fans already know that no one, not even a favorite character, is safe in Westeros. Those who have read the books on which the HBO series is based have a good idea what to expect, yet George R.R. Martin says that viewers could be in for a few surprises when the show returns for its fifth season.
At the 2015 Writers Guild Awards, the "Game of Thrones" creator talked about about the upcoming season.
"People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy," he told Showbiz 411. "So everybody better be on their toes. David [Benioff] and D.B. [Weiss] are even bloodier than I am."
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When asked how many seasons the show is expected to run, the author says that he is not certain.
"This is the fifth season, the sixth season HBO picked up last year. We will have a seventh, eighth, or ninth, no one knows. They only renew one or two seasons at a time. After we do season 6, maybe we'll get a renewal for seventh and eighth. That all depends. Television is a very changeable medium."
Martin hopes that he, along with Benioff and Weiss, get to tell the whole story about the Starks, the Lannisters, Daenerys, Jon Snow, and all the other beloved characters of "Game of Thrones." He also shares that there will be seven books once he's done writing the series.
"Whatever happens with the show I'm going to finish the books, it will be seven books," Martin explained. "But each of these books are 1,500 pages long and they each have enough material in them for several seasons. I have two more books, the one I'm writing right now, 'The Winds of Winter', and after that the last book, 'The Dream of Spring', so those will be the final books … How many seasons that translates to? That's up to D.B. and David."
Season 5 of "Game of Thrones" premieres on April 12 on HBO.
