GRR Martin Wants to Do Superheroes Next (1 Viewer)

[sanman]

GRR Martin made Game of Thrones to bring gritty edginess and realpolitik to the Tolkien genre - now he intends to do something similar for the superhero fiction genre:

Game of Thrones author plots new TV show

 

[Redress]

The Wild Card series has been around for 30ish years, so Martin has already done superheroes. He even gets credit for the best character of the series, The Great and Powerful Turtle.

 

[sanman]

Well, on TV, I mean

 

[Redress]

Well, on TV, I mean

He is not doing it on TV. He co-editor is. He cannot due to his contract with HBO.

 

[PoS]

The Wild Card series has been around for 30ish years, so Martin has already done superheroes. He even gets credit for the best character of the series, The Great and Powerful Turtle.

Yup, he wrote fanfics about superheroes when he started out and was a huge Marvel comics fan.