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They cancelled Rome after just one, and look how popular that was
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Well, according to GRRM's Not A Blog that I just read, and HBO's website, the 2nd season of Rome started just this week.
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Actually, you're both right.
Rome was cancelled after Season 1, but only after Season 2 was comissioned. So they basically said the show would end after Season 2, and indeed, it will. One of the reasons (aside from the eye-bulging $100 million-a-seaon budget) was that the only place the story could go in Season 3 was the Caligula/Claudius saga, and frankly the BBC version of
I, Claudius did that far better than
Rome ever could.
I watched the first episode of
Rome Season 2 this week and it was pure awesomeness. Mark Antony politically outmaneuvering Caesar's murderers was just brilliantly done and I thought, "This is
so a Littlefinger moment." Although Purefoy, great as he is and certainly should be in the ASoIaF in some role, is a bit too big and tough to be Littlefinger.
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How do people think the story will be affected by being adapted by the script-writer? The only reason I support the Chain of Dogs project is that it's actually being written by Erikson and his junta, but will this detract from Martin's excellence? Obviously he doesn't have enough time to do it on his own...
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The
Chain of Dogs project is kind of a non-starter in its current form. The idea that you can get a project of that magnitude done without going to Hollywood was just wishful thinking, and Hollywood would certainly want to put more experienced screenwriters on the task. No disrespect to any of the team who've been working on it and
The Dark, it's just that I don't see
Chain of Dogs making it to the screen in the form they envision. And perhaps that means it won't happen, if SE is adamant that's the only way it
can happen.