For four seasons now fans of George RR Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series of books have had advance warning of what characters are set to kick the bucket in the TV adaptation Game of Thrones. Now it seems even veterans of the books can expect a few surprises in the upcoming season five.
In an interview with Showbiz 411, Martin has warned that fans can expect some unexpected character deaths in the new episodes. Which is par for the course with a show with a death toll has high as Game of Thrones, but this time some of the victims of the power struggle in Westeros will be some of the ones still alive and kicking in the novels.
“People are going to die who don’t die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy," Martin said. "So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of ‘Game Of Thrones) are even bloodier than I am.”
So hopefully you are not too attached to your favourite characters, but then the show should have taught you that particular lesson long ago.
As for the future of the show - which is fast catching up with the original books - Martin said it is "not really certain yet. This is the fifth season, the sixth season HBO picked up last year... They only renew one or two seasons at a time. After we do season 6, maybe we’ll get a renewal for 7th and 8th."
