Get ready to say goodbye to a few of your favorite "Game of Thrones" characters. Creator and author George R.R. Martin spoke to Showbiz 411 and other media outlets at the Writers Guild West Awards earlier this week and teased that there will be some shocking deaths coming up in Season 5 of the HBO show.
"People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy," he said. "So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. [David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game of Thrones' on HBO] are even bloodier than I am."
Fans of both the books and accompanying TV series have been (im)patiently waiting for Martin to release his next novel, "The Winds of Winter." At the event the author didn't reveal a release date but promised that he is going to finish the book and write one more, titled "The Dream of Spring."
Whether those two novels will be translated into new seasons of "Thrones" remains to be unseen, but Martin is hopeful.
"This is the fifth season, the sixth season HBO picked up last year. [Will we] have a 7th, 8th or 9th? No one knows. They only renew one or two seasons at a time," Martin said. "After we do season 6, maybe we'll get a renewal for 7th and 8th. That all depends, television is a very changeable medium."
"I certainly hope that we get to tell the entire story. Because whatever happens with the show I'm going to finish the books, it will be seven books," Martin continued. "But each of these books are 1,500 pages long and they each have enough material in them for several seasons. I have two more books, the one I'm writing right now, 'The Winds of Winter,' and after that the last book, 'The Dream of Spring,' so those will be the two final books. But we're talking 3,000 pages of material. How many seasons that translates too? That's up to D.B. and David."
The fifth season of "Game of Thrones" is expected to premiere in April.
