George RR Martin shuts down A Song of Ice and Fire fan idea ‘It will not occur’ | Books | Entertainment | EUROtoday

The third Game of Thrones present has launched as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. And with it, fantasy collection creator George RR Martin has been doing the press rounds. Having appeared in an interview on the Oxford Union in England, the 77-year-old was requested if A Song of Ice and Fire – of which he nonetheless has two books to jot down, together with The Winds of Winter – would finish the identical manner because the Game of Thrones TV present. After all, the showrunners needed to full the small-screen story utilizing Martin’s bullet-pointed deliberate story arc.

Martin interrupted the interviewer to close down this fan idea, injecting: “The books are not going to end that way.” Here’s the factor, although, George, will they ever be completed? That’s when he admitted a fan lately requested what his principal remorse in life was.

Martin confessed: “My main regret is the books aren’t done yet and I still have two [to get] done. Honestly, I really never thought that would happen. By the time we sold these books to HBO, I had four books already published and I was making a lot of progress on the fifth … these books are like this [widens hands]how could they possibly catch up to me? But they did … And a great part of that is my fault”