Why George R.r. Martin Broke the Cardinal Rule of Hollywood (2024)
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The article explores how George R.R. Martin's writing style, particularly his refusal to tie up loose ends, has influenced the television industry, with the HN discussion reflecting on the implications for storytelling and audience expectations.
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Since it wasn't explained in the opener.
It's a bit of a semantic game, but investing != spending. Paying someone's salary is not an investment in that you don't get money back from that person, you get something of value hopefully, but not a monetary return from them. Investing in a movie or a startup has an expectation of a monetary return, so the investment is not "spent" (relevant synonyms: exhausted, consumed, depleted) by the investor.
Then whoever is actually making the movie, versus investing in it, is the one spending money. But it's not their money, it's the producers' money.
Hell, you can probably train an AI to check the canon.
If he just likes being famous and making money, do that. He'll be more famous and more rich, and the people get books to read.
It's going to happen when he dies, so if he wants some say in what happens, he should do it now. Otherwise it will get Disney Star Wars'd.
And you know what? GoT will NEVER be remade the way it is. I guess he doesn't have any children, so he doesn't care.
Seth McFarlane won't make another season of The Orville for the same reason: he has to write each episode.
The Conchords TV series ended because it was too much work to write new songs for each episode.
Each is reasonable, yet unreasonable.
Hard disagreement on that one.
He wrote an epic story known as A Song of Ice and Fire (started in '96) that ended up getting out of hand and tied up with too many Goordian knots to complete. Sadly, we'll probably never get a conclusion to it.
Along the line, a producer came along who thought they could make money with it. First few seasons weren't terrible, but were too short to capture it all. The rest were completely rushed and unable to take on all that was going on. They went off the rails after a few seasons.
I will agree that he doesn't owe anyone anything though. My philosophy is that I create for me, if others also enjoy that, excellent.
Edit: I'm still a little bitter after going to a trivia night and losing a question because I gave the canon answer that was different from the show