Today I delivered the first draft of "Blackwater" to Dan and David. (Finally) A bit overdue, as always. And probably too long and long expensive, as my scripts always are. (I got to write the Battle of the Blackwater. I tried to be good and restrain myself, but you know how things go. Oh, well. I knew the job was dangerous when I took it).
This is television... (no, it's not TV, it's HBO)... so there will undoubtedly be many further drafts and revisions. But the first draft is the hard one.
And it's a good thing it's done. On Sunday I leave for the first leg of my US book tour.
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- Current Mood:
satisfied
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Wonderful news!!!
Sometimes expletives are necessary.
I had really been looking forward to Sansa & the Hound's scene together in season 1 during the Tourney of the Hand where he spills his guts to her, but instead his lines (the best ones he had in book 1 IMO) got summed up by Littlefinger instead for whatever reason, leaving some of the good stuff out and turning it into what felt more like 'just a bunch more background info' than I had hoped for - I'm not really complaining; obviously they had to cut or shorten some stuff to make the show work, and oh how it did work... Just saying I'm really glad to hear their scene together in the Blackwater episode will likely be a lot more like the book, is all.
Good luck convincing them to keep all your expensive scenes in! It's going to be awesome, I just know it.