Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon
Game of Thrones and the Official Untold Story of the Epic Series
(Sprache: Englisch)
The perfect read and perfect gift for Game of Thrones fans
The official, definitive oral history of the blockbuster show from Entertainment Weekly s James Hibberd, endorsed by George R. R. Martin himself (who calls it an...
The official, definitive oral history of the blockbuster show from Entertainment Weekly s James Hibberd, endorsed by George R. R. Martin himself (who calls it an...
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The perfect read and perfect gift for Game of Thrones fansThe official, definitive oral history of the blockbuster show from Entertainment Weekly s James Hibberd, endorsed by George R. R. Martin himself (who calls it an amazing read ), reveals the one Game of Thrones tale that has yet to be told: the thirteen-year behind-the-scenes struggle to make the show.
Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon shares the incredible, thrilling, uncensored story of Game of Thrones, from the creators' first meetings with George R. R. Martin and HBO through the series finale, including all the on-camera battles, off-camera efforts, and the many controversies in between. The book also features more than fifty candid new interviews, rare and stunning photos, and unprecedented access to the producers, cast, and crew who took an impossible idea and made it into the biggest show in the world.
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Chapter oneA Dream of Dragons
Before the Starks and the Lannisters, the Dothraki and the direwolves, before the continent of Westeros had formed and the first dragon had been born, there was a boy whose imagination could not easily be contained.
George Raymond Richard Martin grew up in a federal housing project in 1950s New Jersey. His father was a longshoreman, and his mother worked as a factory manager. He wasn't allowed to have pets but was permitted to own tiny dime-store turtles, along with a toy fortress to put them in. His first fantasy story-the first he can remember, at least-was titled "Turtle Castle." He imagined his tiny reptiles were competing for power and vying for a little plastic throne.
One day, Martin made a shocking discovery: His turtles were dying. Despite his best efforts to keep his pets alive, his heroes still perished. It was a twist he hadn't seen coming. So Martin began to weave their fates into his fantasy. Perhaps his turtles were killing each other off in sinister plots?
As the years passed, Martin put his fantasies to paper. He wrote monster stories and sold them to other kids for a dime apiece. He fell in love with comic books. He later sold short stories to pulp magazines, and then penned sci-fi and horror novels.
In 1984, Martin moved to Hollywood and landed a job writing on CBS's reboot of The Twilight Zone. Martin's first aired episode was, as fate would have it, a fantasy tale about medieval knights and magic. "The Last Defender of Camelot" was an adaptation of Roger Zelazny's short story about Sir Lancelot living in modern times. The climax is set in an otherworldly version of Stonehenge, where Lancelot fights an enchanted suit of armor-a silent mountain of a warrior called the Hollow Knight.
In Martin's original script, Lancelot and the knight fought on
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armored horses, but that idea was deemed unworkable by the show's line producers. Recalled Martin: "'You can have Stonehenge or you can have horses,' they told me. 'But you cannot have Stonehenge and horses.' I called my friend Roger Zelazny to pose the question to him. He sucked on his pipe a minute and said, 'Stonehenge,' and so it was. They fought on foot."
Undeterred, Martin moved on to another CBS fantasy show, 1987's Beauty and the Beast, where his scripts continued to bump up against the network's creative limitations. "Counting how many times we could say 'damn' or 'hell,' telling us a corpse's makeup could be 'too horrific,' eliminating a news report on a TV in the background because it might be 'too controversial,'" Martin said. "Bullshit changes, sheer cowardice, afraid of anything that was too strong, anything that anyone might be 'offended' by-those I hated and railed against."
Martin grew frustrated, disillusioned. He returned to writing novels full-time in 1991 and a couple of years later he had an idea for a fantasy story-a "reaction," as he once dubbed it, to his years spent writing for television. It was a sprawling epic like J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, a saga that Martin adored, except Martin's tale was inspired by actual European historical events such as the Wars of the Roses and reflected the true brutality of the Dark Ages. The first book, A Game of Thrones, was published in 1996. Sales were, as Martin later wrote on his blog, "nothing spectacular."
In rapid succession, Martin followed up with two more books in the saga. Their popularity spread by word of mouth, enthralling an ever-growing fandom with a complex story that shattered the fantasy genre's long-held rules. Beloved heroes died horribly, loathsome villains became strangely sympathetic, the wise and cunning were toppled by the slightest procedural error, and the power of magic was considered unreliable at best.
Along the way, Martin t
Undeterred, Martin moved on to another CBS fantasy show, 1987's Beauty and the Beast, where his scripts continued to bump up against the network's creative limitations. "Counting how many times we could say 'damn' or 'hell,' telling us a corpse's makeup could be 'too horrific,' eliminating a news report on a TV in the background because it might be 'too controversial,'" Martin said. "Bullshit changes, sheer cowardice, afraid of anything that was too strong, anything that anyone might be 'offended' by-those I hated and railed against."
Martin grew frustrated, disillusioned. He returned to writing novels full-time in 1991 and a couple of years later he had an idea for a fantasy story-a "reaction," as he once dubbed it, to his years spent writing for television. It was a sprawling epic like J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, a saga that Martin adored, except Martin's tale was inspired by actual European historical events such as the Wars of the Roses and reflected the true brutality of the Dark Ages. The first book, A Game of Thrones, was published in 1996. Sales were, as Martin later wrote on his blog, "nothing spectacular."
In rapid succession, Martin followed up with two more books in the saga. Their popularity spread by word of mouth, enthralling an ever-growing fandom with a complex story that shattered the fantasy genre's long-held rules. Beloved heroes died horribly, loathsome villains became strangely sympathetic, the wise and cunning were toppled by the slightest procedural error, and the power of magic was considered unreliable at best.
Along the way, Martin t
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Autoren-Porträt von James Hibberd
James Hibberd is an award-winning entertainment journalist who has written thousands of stories covering the business of Hollywood across nearly two decades. He's currently an editor at large at Entertainment Weekly and was previously the TV editor at The Hollywood Reporter. Prior to covering entertainment, Hibberd made headlines in 2001 as a staff writer at Phoenix New Times when he risked imprisonment amid a legal battle versus county and federal authorities in order to protect a confidential source (and won). His freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Cosmopolitan, Details, and The Best American Sports Writing. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James Hibberd
- 2020, 464 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 16,5 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Dutton
- ISBN-10: 1524746754
- ISBN-13: 9781524746759
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
James Hibberd covered Game of Thrones from start to finish and he knows where all the bodies are buried. It's all here, in his oral history of the series: how it began, how it ended, dragons and direwolves, what went on in front of the cameras and what went on behind the scenes, the triumphs and the stumbles, the tough decisions, the forks in the road, the reasons why. Actors, directors, showrunners, producers, executives, even me. . . . Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon has it all, everything you ever wanted to know. Game of Thrones was an amazing ride. Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon is an amazing read. George R. R. MartinA great read, informative and insightful . . . Hibberd s impressive reach also helps; he speaks to just about every major player in the show s orbit, from actors like Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, and Kit Harington to directors like Neil Marshall and Miguel Sapochnik, the people responsible for some of the show s most ambitious episodes. The A.V. Club
After spending a decade religiously covering the HBO fantasy hit series, the Entertainment Weekly writer delivers all of the behind-the-scenes secrets of Westeros in a must-read for fans. With over fifty interviews to offer new insights and never-before-seen photos from the secretive set, Hibberd might just become King in the North (Pole) this holiday. E! News
This book will change how you see Game of Thrones. Wired
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