'Game of Thrones' Season 6 Air Date, Plot News: George R.R. Martin Will Not Write Script for New Season
With Season 5 about to start in April, the "Game of Thrones" series on HBO is gearing up for its next season.
Unfortunately for some fans of the series and its creator George R.R. Martin, even season 6 may be a disappointment as the author recently announced that he is not penning a single episode for the upcoming season. Sharing the news in his blog, Martin says that he is not involved in scriptwriting this time because he would like to spend the time finishing his next book of the series "The Winds of Winter." Martin was also not involved in season 5.
Martin wrote the series of novels called "A Song of Ice and Fire" on which "The Game of Thrones" series is based. The most recent one was entitled "A Dance with Dragons" published four years ago. "The Winds of Winter" will be the sixth novel of the series.
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"Writing a season six script would cost me a month's work on WINDS, and maybe as much as six weeks, and I cannot afford that," he told The Huffington Post, he has already cancelled originally planned appearances in the World Fantasy Convention and the San Diego Comic-Con so that he can write.
He also said that the scriptwriting duties for the show were pretty much covered with D.B. Weiss, David Benioff and Bryan Cogman in charge.
The report also mentions another reason why Martin is frantically trying to finish the sixth book. Most of the material used in seasons 1 to 4 of the series is said to be closely linked his novels. There was an earlier acknowledgement that season 5 will not follow the novels strictly which "Martin hoped would not happen." The show's producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff also acknowledged that the show "will spoil the endings of the novels eventually."
If he gets to finish the book, the report also says that this might give Martin some time to write for season 7, or what is supposed to be the final season of the series.
