Mark leads by example, and the others don't dare to blow up anymore, and after beating the producers, Mark meets a big guy in the office. R. Martin, this is talking to him about the adaptation rights of A Song of Ice and Fire.

George S. R· Born in 1948 in Bayon, New Jersey, to a family of dock workers, R. Martin was the eldest son of two younger sisters. Martin's family, who first lived with his great-grandmother and moved to a federal public home near the docks when he was five years old, according to Martin, had largely confined his childhood to his school and his home "between First and Fifth Streets." This inspired him to explore other places from an early age, but because his family was not wealthy, he had to rely on his imagination to satisfy himself, so he became a bookish reader.

After graduating from high school, Martin was admitted to Northwestern University in Illinois, one of the best institutions of higher learning in the United States, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism summa laude in 1970 and a master's degree in '71. He also worked as a manager for the International Chess Association to finance his writing, but his income was stretched and "not enough to survive".

After a short career at home, Martin moved to Hollywood and began to write for the CBS drama "Yin Yang Demon World", when CBS decided not to renew the show in '88, Martin turned to the ABC TV series "Two-Faced Max", but his script was cut in the middle of the second season before the TV series was filmed, and after that, Martin became the editor and producer of the fantasy feature film "The Brave Lion" until the end of the show in 1990.

Although Martin's work in Hollywood is satisfactorily paid, he is disappointed that most of the programs he participated in have not been approved, because the most important thing for a writer is that his work can be seen by the public, but the decision-making level of broadcasters is not the same as screenwriters.

When Martin's 1980 novella "Nightcrawler" was adapted into a film, Martin openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the crew's cuts to fit the budget, and after the end of "The Brave Lion", Martin began writing essays in his spare time before he took over the TV series, and conceived a film called "Avalon" After writing the draft of the three chapters, he suddenly conceived a scene of a boy who goes to watch the execution and then finds the ice wolf in the snow, this seemingly unremarkable moment of inspiration aroused endless reverie, and also ignited his long-lost creative enthusiasm, and since then, Martin put "Avalon" aside, wrote a chapter of the story in a few days, and soon realized that this had nothing to do with his previous ones, but would be part of a larger story, and he wrote this chapter on inspiration later became an epic masterpiece A Song of Ice and Fire, Volume 1, Chapter 1.

After writing a few more chapters, Martin decided that his new book would be a long-form fantasy story series and began working on a map of the story's backdrop and a genealogy of the characters.

However, the writing of the book was then interrupted for several years, because in '92 Martin was called back to Hollywood to create the ABC-booked TV series "The Door", but although the pilot episode was filmed, the show was never released.

In '94, Martin decided that Lao Tzu would quit his TV series work and never do it again, and began to continue writing his fantasy story from three years ago, and gave his publishing agent Kirby Macaulay the first 200 pages of the manuscript and a two-page blueprint for a plan to write a trilogy series Martin liked vague titles because he felt that it would make his work more esoteric, so he chose "A Song of Ice and Fire" as the title of the entire series: the cold stranger and the flaming dragon may mean "ice and fire", and "song" Appearing in Martin's books "The Song of Lyanna" and "The Song of the Dead", Martin's fetish for "songs" is a fetish.

Martin also admits that the title was inspired by Robert Frost's 1920 poem "Fire and Ice," in which fire is love, passion and passion, ice betrayal and revenge, the dark side of cruelty.

Martin had planned to write a trilogy like his idol Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings, titled Game of Thrones, A Dance of Dragons, and The Winds of Winter, but when Martin wrote and wrote 1,400 pages of manuscript and still couldn't complete the story of the first book, he felt that the series needed four or even six books (which at the time was conceived as two connected trilogies to form a long story).

The first volume of the entire series, Game of Thrones, was published in August '96 by Bantam Books.

Volume 2, A Clash of Kings, was published in February 1999 and became the first book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series to reach the bestseller list, reaching No. 13 on the 1999 New York Times bestseller list. After Peter the Great's successful adaptation of The Lord of the Rings films, Martin also began to receive copyright requests from many producers to bring "A Song of Ice and Fire" to the screen, but Martin, who had feared that Hollywood would not be able to stay true to his work since "Nightcrawler", refused.

Martin delivered the third volume, A Storm of Swords, to the publisher several months late, because the description of the red wedding in two-thirds of the page was so painful for Martin that he had to save the chapter until the end to save enough courage to write it. The length of the manuscript of "A Storm of Swords" (not counting appendices) is a headache for many publishers, and Bantam Books published a single full volume in November 2000, while editions in other regions and languages have been divided into two or three volumes, and "A Storm of Swords" reached No. 12 on the New York Times bestseller list when it was published.

The five-year trilogy was finally completed, and many publishers, production companies, and readers rushed to tell each other that the hole of nearly six years had finally been filled.

Who knew that the book was published before it was published, the story was not over at all, this was only half of it, and Uncle Martin was going to work on two connected trilogies, which made many film companies like they were splashed with cold water.

Volume 4, A Feast of Crows, was not published until September 2005, and after it was released in the United States and the United Kingdom, it topped the New York Times bestseller list. Time Magazine reviewer Leif Grossman called Martin "the Tolkien of the United States" in a positive review, but fans and critics were still disappointed that the publication of the book had left many of the beloved characters without making appearances after the gripping ending of Volume 3, but that was too long, and many readers feared that they would not be able to see the finale of A Song of Ice and Fire in their lifetimes.

In the afterword, Martin indicated that Volume 5 would be published within the next year, but the planned publishing date was pushed back, and in 2007, HBO was awarded the rights to adapt A Song of Ice and Fire into a television series, and Martin was invited to be the writer's consultant and producer (original version).

The adaptation rights of "A Song of Ice and Fire" aroused the covetousness of major production companies as soon as it was published, but the work was not finished, after all, it was difficult to price, and Martin was a smart guy, he knew that this might be the best work of his career, of course, it was to be sold at a price, the work was not finished, just wait for it to finish, he himself did not expect that this work could not be completed in 20 years from the launch of the first part to the end, or even longer, becoming the first pit king in history, and also consuming the enthusiasm of the production company in the long-term bouncing and procrastination.

Unlike the super-hit fantasy genre "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter", and "The Chronicles of Narnia", it is biased towards the serious aspect, which is a medium fantasy, while its theme and content are more dark, bloody, and violent, and the adaptation into a movie may be R-rated, or even X-rated, and if you want to adapt it to GP 13, it will lose its unique charm of ice and fire, which is difficult to adapt, limiting its value.

There are countless examples of failed adaptations of best-selling books in history, and this best-selling adaptation is not a panacea for the box office, and with Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" asking for such a high price, many people are not sure of its value and dare not rush to it.

In Mark's eyes, this "A Song of Ice and Fire" is known as the first drama in the history of TV dramas, and its value is far higher than that of "Blood in the Pacific".

Mark had already had access to Martin and his agent when Mark was "scrambling" for "Blood in the Pacific," and MM TV Network also had its own pay channel that could be broadcast on it.

This is different from other people's inaccuracy, Mark can see accurately, and the bid is also high, Martin has already secretly promised, after several negotiations, the two sides have reached an agreement, Martin will sell the film and television adaptation rights of "A Song of Ice and Fire" to MM, and they will be adapted into TV series, and the adaptation fee will reach an astonishing 10 million plus shares, which is basically the same as the Lord of the Rings, etc., as for changing it into a movie, everyone is not considering it at present.

If it is really a movie, many of the characters and plots in "A Song of Ice and Fire" will be cut, and the rhythm of ice and fire itself will be relatively slow, and there will be fewer passages that can be made into a few climaxes and advancements after being deleted, and it is estimated that two or three will have to be combined into one movie to shoot, with the writing speed of Martin, who is the king of the pit and "the slowest in the universe", there will be a gap of seven or eight years between the two, who will wait...... And this kind of slow-entry feature, if there is no good foreshadowing in the front, the audience is likely to be unable to accept the worldview of ice and fire: everyone will die, there is no protagonist, which is also a big deviation from ordinary movies, and when half of the protagonists die, the audience will think that this is the rhythm of the gods?

If you really want to make a movie, it is estimated that only a small part of it will be drawn, and everyone will cool off the climax, such as a bloody wedding, but this is spending money to destroy the classics, who would be so stupid? Who would be willing to do this?