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George R.R. Martin Feels Strikes “Will Be Long And Bitter”, Says His HBO Deal “Was Suspended” & Gives Update On ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 2 (deadline.com)

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George R.R. Martin is giving updates on all the projects he’s involved in and weighed in on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. In his latest blog entry, Martin says that the WGA strike “is …

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[–] residue2173 1 points 1 year ago

That's not how this works at all. I honestly don't know how to explain to you that tv shows and books are different things without sounding like an extremely condescending asshole, so I won't even try.

The strike rules come from the union, not from the greedy capitalists trying to fuck over the writers. There's absolutely no reason for union to have a rule forbidding people from writing books. Especially since HBO can't even adapt the book into the TV show, anyway. GoT is over, they're not going to reboot season 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 to show us the WoW adaptation.