An Ending

May 20, 2019

The last night, the last show.?? After eight epic seasons, HBO’s GAME OF THRONES series has come to an end.

It is hard to believe it is over, if truth be told.?? The years have gone past in the blink of an eye.? Can it really have been more than a decade since my manager Vince Gerardis set up a meeting at the Palm in LA, and I sat down for the first time with David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for a lunch that lasted well past dinner?? I asked them if they knew who Jon Snow’s mother was. ? Fortunately, they did.

That was how it started.? It ended last night.

I had no clue, that afternoon at the Palm, that I was about to embark on a journey that would change my life.?? I had optioned books and stories for television and film before.? Some had even been made ? There was no way to know that this one was going to be different, that this pilot would not only be shot,? but would go on to become the most successful show in the history of HBO, win a record number of Emmy Awards, become the most popular (and most pirated) show in the world, and transform a group of talented but largely unknown actors into major celebrities and stars.?? Even less did I imagine that I would somehow become a celebrity as well… and if truth be told, I’m still not sure how that happened.

It has been a wild ride, to say the least.

I want to thank people, but there are so many.?? There were forty-two cast members at the season eight premiere in New York City, and that wasn’t even all of them.?? And the crew, though less visible than the cast, were no less important.? We had some amazing people working on this show, as all those Emmys bear witness.?? David & Dan assembled a championship team.?? The directors were incredible as well.?? I should start naming names, but then I’d miss someone, there were so many.?? But I do need to mention David Benioff, Dan Weiss, Bryan Cogman (the third head of the dragon, as I said in the recent VANITY FAIR piece about him), and of course the great team at HBO, headed by Richard Plepler.?? Any other network, and GAME OF THRONES would not have been what it became.? Most other networks, this series never gets made at all.

I could go on and on… and have, as I’ve been writing this post in my head… but there’s really too much to say.?? Parting is such sweet sorrow, the Bard wrote.? In the weeks and months to come, I may post about some of my favorite moments from the making of this show… now and again, when I am feeling nostalgic… but just now, there are so many memories, and no time to do them all justice.

Let me say this much — last night was an ending, but it was also a beginning. ? Nobody is retiring any time soon. ? David and Dan are going on to STAR WARS and other projects beyond that.?? Amazon scooped up Bryan Cogman, and put him to work on developing shows of his own, as well as helping out on their big Tolkien project.?? Our brilliant cast has scattered to the four winds, but you’ll be seeing a lot of them in the years to come, in all manner of television shows and movies.?? Our directors are keeping busy as well. ? I suspect that you have not seen the last of Westeros on your television sets either, but I guess that all depends on how some of these successor shows turn out.

And me?? I’m still here, and I’m still busy.??? As a producer, I’ve got five shows in development at HBO (some having nothing whatsoever to do with the world of Westeros), two at Hulu, one on the History Channel.?? I’m involved with a number of feature projects, some based upon my own stories and books, some on material created by others.?? There are these short films I am hoping to make, adaptations of classic stories by one of the most brilliant, quirky, and original writers our genre has ever produced.?? I’ve consulted on a video game out of Japan.?? And then there’s Meow Wolf…

And I’m writing.?? Winter is coming, I told you, long ago… and so it is.?? THE WINDS OF WINTER is very late, I know, I know, but it will be done.? I won’t say when, I’ve tried that before, only to burn you all and jinx myself… but I will finish it, and then will come A DREAM OF SPRING.

How will it all end? I hear people asking.?? The same ending as the show?? Different?

Well… yes.? And no.? And yes.?? And no.?? And yes.?? And no.?? And yes.

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…

Book or show, which will be the “real” ending??? It’s a silly question.?? How many children did Scarlett O’Hara have?

How about this?? I’ll write it. ? You read it.? Then everyone can make up their own mind, and argue about it on the internet.

以下機(jī)翻，見諒

結(jié)束

2019年5月20日

昨晚，最后一場秀。在八個(gè)史詩季節(jié)之后，HBO的“游戲之戰(zhàn)”系列已經(jīng)結(jié)束。

如果真相被告知，很難相信它已經(jīng)結(jié)束了。這些年已經(jīng)眨眼間過去了。自從我的經(jīng)理Vince Gerardis在洛杉磯Palm舉行會(huì)議以來我真的已經(jīng)十多年了，我第一次和David Benioff以及D.B.坐下來了。 Weiss吃了一頓午飯，吃完了晚餐？我問他們是否知道Jon Snow的母親是誰。幸運(yùn)的是，他們做到了。

這就是它的開始。它昨晚結(jié)束了。

那天下午在Palm，我不知道我即將開始一段改變我生活的旅程。我之前選擇過電視和電影的書籍和故事。有些人甚至已經(jīng)被制造了沒有辦法知道這個(gè)將會(huì)有所不同，這個(gè)飛行員不僅會(huì)被擊中，而且會(huì)成為HBO歷史上最成功的一個(gè)，贏得創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄的數(shù)字艾美獎(jiǎng)?lì)C獎(jiǎng)典禮成為世界上最受歡迎（也是最受盜版）的表演，并將一群才華橫溢但卻鮮為人知的演員轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)橹饕拿撕兔餍?。更少的我想象我?huì)以某種方式成為名人......如果真相被告知，我仍然不確定那是怎么回事。

至少可以說，這是一次瘋狂的旅程。

我要感謝別人，但有這么多。在紐約市的第八季首播中有四十二名演員，甚至不是全部。船員雖然不如演員表現(xiàn)得那么重要，但同樣重要。我們有一些很棒的人在這個(gè)節(jié)目上工作，因?yàn)樗心切┌廓?jiǎng)都有見證。大衛(wèi)和丹組建了一支冠軍隊(duì)。導(dǎo)演也很不可思議。我應(yīng)該開始命名，但后來我會(huì)想念某人，有這么多人。但我確實(shí)需要提到David Benioff，Dan Weiss，Bryan Cogman（龍的第三任主管，正如我在最近關(guān)于他的VANITY FAIR文章中所說的那樣），當(dāng)然還有由Richard Plepler領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的HBO的偉大團(tuán)隊(duì)。任何其他網(wǎng)絡(luò)，以及THRONES的游戲都不會(huì)成為它。大多數(shù)其他網(wǎng)絡(luò)，這個(gè)系列根本就沒有制作過。

我可以繼續(xù)......而且，因?yàn)槲乙恢痹趯戇@篇文章...但是真的有太多話要說了。巴德寫道，分手是如此甜蜜的悲傷。在接下來的幾個(gè)星期和幾個(gè)月里，我可能會(huì)發(fā)布一些關(guān)于這個(gè)節(jié)目制作的最喜歡的時(shí)刻......不管怎樣，當(dāng)我感到懷舊的時(shí)候......但就在此，有很多回憶，沒有時(shí)間去做一切正義。

讓我這么說 - 昨晚是結(jié)局，但這也是一個(gè)開始。任何人都不會(huì)很快退休。 David和Dan正在接受STAR WARS和其他項(xiàng)目。亞馬遜收起了布萊恩·科格曼（Bryan Cogman），并讓他參與開發(fā)他自己的節(jié)目，以及幫助他們的大托爾金項(xiàng)目。我們精彩的演員已分散到四個(gè)風(fēng)中，但在未來的幾年里，你會(huì)在各種電視節(jié)目和電影中看到很多。我們的董事也很忙。我懷疑你還沒有在電視機(jī)上看過最后一個(gè)維斯特洛，但我猜這一切都取決于其中一些繼任者的演出結(jié)果如何。

我呢？我還在這里，我還在忙。作為制作人，我在HBO開發(fā)了五個(gè)節(jié)目（有些與Westeros的世界毫無關(guān)系），兩個(gè)在Hulu，一個(gè)在歷史頻道。我參與了許多功能項(xiàng)目，一些基于我自己的故事和書籍，一些基于他人創(chuàng)建的材料。我希望制作這些短片，由我們的流派制作過的最杰出，最古怪和最原始的作家之一改編經(jīng)典故事。我咨詢了日本以外的視頻游戲。還有喵狼......

我正在寫作。很久以前，我告訴過你，冬天來了......等等。我知道，冬天的風(fēng)很晚，但它會(huì)完成。我不會(huì)說什么時(shí)候，我之前已經(jīng)嘗試過，只是為了燒掉你們所有人，并且我自己也是如此......但我會(huì)完成它，然后會(huì)來到春天的夢想。

它將如何結(jié)束？我聽到有人問。與節(jié)目相同的結(jié)局？不同？

嗯，是的。 不。是的。 不。是的。 不。是的。

我在與大衛(wèi)和丹不同的媒介工作，永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)忘記。他們最后一個(gè)賽季有六個(gè)小時(shí)。我希望我的最后兩本書在我完成之前會(huì)填充3000篇手稿頁...如果需要更多的頁面，章節(jié)和場景，我會(huì)添加它們。當(dāng)然蝴蝶效應(yīng)也會(huì)起作用;那些跟隨這個(gè)不是博客的人會(huì)知道我從第一季開始就一直在談?wù)撨@個(gè)問題。有些角色根本沒有在屏幕上出現(xiàn)，有些人在節(jié)目中死亡但仍然生活在書中...所以如果沒有別的，讀者會(huì)知道Jeyne Poole，Stoneheart，Penny和她的豬發(fā)生了什么， Skahaz Shavepate，Arianne Martell，Darkstar，Victarion Greyjoy，Ser Garlan the Gallant，Aegon VI，以及無數(shù)其他角色，無論大小，觀眾都沒有機(jī)會(huì)見面。是的，會(huì)有獨(dú)角獸... ......

預(yù)訂或展示，這將是“真正的”結(jié)局？這是一個(gè)愚蠢的問題。斯嘉麗奧哈拉有多少個(gè)孩子？

這個(gè)怎么樣？我會(huì)寫的。你看了。然后每個(gè)人都可以自己構(gòu)思，并在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上爭論。

PS:UP一句話總結(jié)? ?我寫書你會(huì)看的，對吧？