Game Of Thrones has debut on HBO

A common perspective that has been adopted by movie productions is the investment on stories which are firstly based on published books, whether they’re novels or reality-inspired. One of the main problems with the transportation of a literary story to the big screens is that most of the times, a lot of the original essence gets lost.

Production Invests On Fantasy Series

Now, motivated by the possibility of recreating a published story in a cinematographic version, HBO has just aired the first episode of the series Game of Thrones, which is inspired on the book A Song of Fire And Ice, by George R. R. Martin. This production is the first fantasy genre series that HBO has ever produced.

The series is expected to start-off with a total of ten episodes. Although the book was written by Martin, the creation of the televised version was made by David Benioff and Dan Weiss. As the first episode, Winter is Coming, was released, viewers already noticed that large investments were made on setup and photography.

The ‘Unfilmable’ On TV Screens

As the book got its series version, original fans of the story had the opportunity to see how their favorite characters and the scenario were going to be materialized. The main storyline is that the noble families of Westeros fight over the control of the throne. The city is known for being the place where “summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime.”

At first, Martin thought that his books were ‘unfilmable’. About his first experiences with television, Martin said “I had worked in Hollywood myself for about 10 years, from the late ’80s to the ’90s. I’d been on the staff of The Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast. All of my first drafts tended to be too big or too expensive. I always hated the process of having to cut.”