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#GameofThrones | La Última Guardia | Documental. Viaja a westeros con las personas que construyeron el reino. @hbo Mayo 26 #documentary #hbo #got #DavidBenioff #DBWeiss #juegodetronos #thelastwatch #laúltimaguardia #documental #KitHarington #SophieTurner #EmiliaClarke #Panamá #ig (en Panama City, Panama) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxrKaV4hIcO/?igshid=musjf9sryrur

TV Review: 3 BODY PROBLEM: Season 1, Episodes 1-8 [Netflix] https://film-book.com/tv-review-3-body-problem-season-1-episodes-1-8-netflix/?feed_id=133044&_unique_id=66441bff77fba

Caast your mind back 13 years, to the first episodes of an HBO series called Game of Thrones. While the books the series was built on had a cult following, no one could have anticipated the fervour that would envelope the world, and the huge success its stars (some of which have crossed into the GFFA including Emilia Clarke) and creators would enjoy. The world-building that George R.R. Martin had laid out in A Song of Ice and Fire was intricate, but that didn't mean the TV version would necessarily translate into such a watcheable, gripping series, but the duo behind that adaptation - David Benioff and D. B. Weiss - did it to such great effect, thoughts of a jump to the galaxy far, far away were unsurprisingly not too far behind. However, history shows that leap didn't quite stick the landing, and ahead of their latest Netflix series 3 Body Problem, Benioff and Weiss briefly touched on the Star Wars idea they had, and why it didn't happen. Next was their Star Wars movie. Fans were excited by the idea of the Thrones guys bringing their grounded-fantasy dramatics to a galaxy far, far away. Yet the movie was shelved along with Star Wars projects from other top creatives (like Kevin Feige, Patty Jenkins and Damon Lindelof). “We wanted to do The First Jedi,” Benioff says. “Basically how the Jedi Order came to be, why it came to be, the first lightsaber …” “And we were annoyed as hell when [Rian Johnson, the duo’s longtime friend and 3BP producer] called his movie The Last Jedi,” Weiss says dryly. “He completely destroyed the obvious title for what we were working on.” Asked what went wrong, Benioff says, “[Lucasfilm] ended up not wanting to do a First Jedi story. We had a very specific story idea in mind, and ultimately they decided they didn’t want to do that. And we totally get it. It’s their company and their IP, but we weren’t the droids they were looking for.” (Their overall concept still might happen — last year, Lucasfilm announced a movie titled Dawn of the Jedi from director James Mangold.) With the previous announcements regarding the Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy film set 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker, the James Mangold Dawn of the Jedi project and the Mandoverse film directed by Dave Filoni now joined on the big screen by The Mandalorian & Grogu as well as a second season for Ahsoka, a fourth for The Mandalorian, the third and final season of The Bad Batch, debut seasons of The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew and the second season of Andor the galaxy far, far away has never been busier. [amazon box="0593723430"]

Feels like the first #novel I’ve read in awhile. #DavidBenioff is now better know as 1/2 the show running team for Game of Thrones, but before the dragons & shit he wrote more grounded material like 25th Hour (Spike Lee made it into a killer film). This is a historical #WWII novel taking place in Russia during the German invasion. Just by coincidence that I picked it up off my “to read” pile when everything was kicking off in Ukraine. Interesting to read while the brutalities & inhumanities of the current Russian army coming streaming in. I don’t have anything profound to say about that … yesterday’s victim, today’s butcher. None of it adds up. My heart goes out to Ukraine & it’s people – I follow more than a few creatives from the region (& I’ve even scraped together a bit to help out). All that said this #book is wonderful & horrifying & brutal & funny & touching. Cover art by SHOUT/Alessandro Gottardo, design by Greg Mollica. #reading #book #bookcoverdesign #graphicdesign #illustration (at Bedford-Stuyvesant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdB1oLiu-jb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=