re: Game of Thrones Season 3 E3 - Walk of Punishment <Book Readers thread>*spoilers*

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They'll be merging the events from books 4 and 5 on the show, I would guess over two seasons.

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Given the slow pace of GRRM's writing, and the fact that the show is a hit (ie. $$$$$$$$$), I think the most likely scenario is that they spend at least 2 seasons on books 4 & 5, so that they'll be done w/8 seasons for the 5 books. That way they have a good shot to be ready to film book 6 when its already done and not having to wait around.

I assume they'll play around with the story points between books 4 & 5 given that they've already done this in taking Book 2 elements and putting into s1, and taking Book 3 elements into s2 and Book 2 elements into s3.

In fact, if it looks like he's going really slow on the books, and they can make the contracts work, perhaps they'll spend 5 or 6 seasons on books 4 & 5, instead of 4.

I wonder what the odds are of seeing the entire series out in both book form and hbo show? Pretty slim I think.