I think it’s scheduled for release in conjunction with the re-do of The Last Jedi (which I can only assume will precede the Rise of Skywalker redo).
Good actors stay busy so they probably could not get the cast they want until 2021 for filming. So a 2022 release date makes sense.
You must be a really big supporter of this campaign, given just how many times you bring it up.
Yes, I wrote a java script to sign the petition 100,000 times! Only 1.2 million more signers needed to hit 3 million!
So why are you talking about it here? You are the only person on the SDMB who thinks it’s a good idea. It’s long past the point of being tiresome.
<ETA: Just saw Dewey Finn’s post that no-one thinks remaking season 8 is a good idea. Oh well, I’m going to leave my 2c here anyway>
While it’s popular to pile on to season 8, IMO the show gradually went downhill starting from season 5 (there are one or two bad decisions prior to that, such as making the white walkers mute. But the show was still excellent overall with minimal plot holes or nonsensical character decisions, up to season 5).
So I don’t see the point in trying to remake season 8.
The show was already horribly flawed by the end of season 7, and also left far too much ground to cover for the final season.
There were serious flaws in the show starting in season 5, even though it still had great moments through seasons 6 and 7 (and a few great moments among the chaff in 8). The right answer, IMO, is to start over again once GoT has been completely digested through popular consciousness, and once all the books are done. Then this version of GoT will be as to the Rankin-Bass LoTR movie, and a new version will be as to the Peter Jackson LoTR movies. Both will be praised (it will be hard to top Sean Bean as Ned, the early seasons Lannister trio, much of Maisie Williams as Arya, and a few other amazing aspects of the show), but hopefully the new version will get it right throughout. So we’ll see it in 30 years or so.
Is he actually serious, though? I read his posts as mocking the petition and the outcry that led to it.
No, it’s clear that he or she is the biggest advocate of this ridiculous idea. Why else would he or she bring it up so damned much?
So never, then.
30 years, 300 years. It doesn’t matter. The books are never going to get finished, by anybody. But especially by George.
Sure, go ahead and remake GOT season 8. I want to see the reactions to version 2. Maybe more heads will explode. 
What about a remake of Howard the Duck? It can’t be any worse than version 1.
Unless Howard goes mad at the end and burns Cleveland to the ground.
I’d actually like to see a new take on Howard the Duck. They set it up in one of the Guardians of the Galaxies, didn’t they? Even the most ridiculous premise can be pulled off with the right writer. Conversely, even the most “sure thing, unstoppable force in cinema or television” can be ruined by bad writing, as evidenced by GoT Season 8 (and, IMHO, the Star Wars films of the last thirty years, including Rogue One).
No, he’s mocking the idea. I think the reason he brings it up is because the whiny tantrumming that led to the petition was bad enough, but the petition itself was one of the most cringe-inducing embarrassments from the age of social media.
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People think Martin will finish the GOT books? Really? The only reason he would do that would be for a cash grab. Every year he says the next book will be out next year.
I don’t believe I’ve ever encountered sincere support for the idea of a reboot beyond a sort of day dream fantasy (ie: it sure would be nice if we lived in a world in which … could happen), or, most commonly as “satire.” Which makes it more of a strawman than anything in my view. Perhaps it’s a defense mechanism for those who really liked the show, but find it difficult to counter critical appraisals?
Actually, he hasn’t predicted a specific release date for several years now. He got a bit singed by GOT fan complaints when he missed earlier “deadlines.”
He already has more money than he knows what to do with. Literally. He bought a movie theater near where he lives. He bought the original Robby the Robot. He bought some abandoned factory and turned it into a charity to support wolves, and another piece of property that he turned into a charity for struggling artists (or something like that, IIRC). The only reasons he has to finish these books are pride and the writer’s urge.
He’s just gotten slower as he’s gotten older, and compounding that, he’s written himself into several knots that he’s really struggling to get out of. That’s more than enough explanation, and certainly much more likely than “cash grab!”.
As people have said Martin hired HBO as his ghost writers to finish the story. Maybe that was not his plan but that is the result.
I know he has plenty of money but so does Jeff Bezos and he is not retiring any time soon. (extreme example)
Late last year I binged the entire series having seen and read none of it and I thought seasons 7 and 8 were different but not worse and possibly better than the others. They’re the only ones I’ve rewatched. The only reason I’m not certain they were better written is because it looks like they really splurged for a lot of epic effects whereas before in the show, even if there was a battle they would skip over the actual battle and into the results.
Even the obvious out-of-the-blue event that made no sense, still, in a way, stayed true to the message of the world: somebody can want an epic-style revenge and plan forever for it but simply not get it - in this case, Arya’s being robbed of her revenge by the slaughter of King’s Landing.
Still, I think, overall, it was merely passable, but making that many hours of passable fantasy is a feat in itself. The only truly epic portion of the entire thing was the cold opener of Season 7 (Arya’s revenge for the red wedding.) The fact that the vast majority of the people played their character pretty believably is brought home by the counterexample of Jaime, who always looked like a modern person thrust into a fantasy world (just like Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons.)
The worst part about the last season was not Daenarys’s heel turn, but the way over-dipping into the well of “character is being embraced/crushed by another but stabs them”, which was already overused before.