别猜来猜去了。看完大结局，马丁在他自己的博客写了长文，重大消息是：《冰与火之歌》未来只有两卷；原著和电视剧剧集本来就完全不同；还有更多书中的人物支线但被剧集砍掉的部分还会再继续添加，甚至还会出现新生物？
HBO《权力的游戏》美剧大结局播出已经一天了，剧迷们对2DB编剧写的皆大欢喜大结尾非常不满意，甚至还在美国开始请愿重拍第八季。
作为《冰与火之歌》原著作者乔治·R·马丁也被媒体围了个水泄不通，终于在博客上写了很长的笔记，谈到他即将出版的书和对权游大结局的看法。
祭出马丁在他博客上写的原文（写于5月20日 晚上8点）
标题： 剧终
昨晚，最终季。拍了八季之后，HBO《权力的游戏》终于告一段落了。
坦白说，我很难相信剧集已经结束了。眨眼之间这么多年倏忽而逝，回想起制作人Vince Gerardis（《权力的游戏》制作人）在洛杉矶安排我和2DB（《权力的游戏》编剧）第一次会面吃午餐和晚餐，仿佛是一个世纪以前的事。我问他们是否知道琼恩·雪诺的母亲是谁。很幸运，他们知道。（脂评：2DB后面上美国综艺秀时有提到过这个事情，当时他们向马丁说希望能把原著的制作权、改编权给到他们，马丁问了这个问题来考验他们是否适合。后面他们又回去重读了一遍书，告诉马丁正确答案。）
这就是故事的开始。而它于昨晚谢幕。
我从未预想到，那个在棕榈泉的下午，我踏上了改变人生轨迹的旅程。在这部剧之前，我也曾把书和故事的版权卖去制作电视剧或电影。没人知道这部剧会如此不同，它不仅拍得很好，还成为HBO史上最成功的电视剧，赢得了艾美奖，甚至成为世界风靡流行的剧集，让一群有天分但默默无闻的演员一跃成为名人或明星。我更没想到我也变成了名人。坦白说，我至今还不知道这是怎么回事儿。
这是一次疯狂的旅程，至少可以这么说。
我想要感谢大家，但需要致谢的人太多。在纽约举行的《权力的游戏》第八季首映式现场邀请了42名，但这还不是剧组的全部人员。还有一群演员，虽然不如主配角一样显眼，但他们也非常重要。艾美奖可以作证，在剧组里有很多了不起的演员。2DB搭建了一个冠军团队，导演们也很厉害。我很想一个个念出他们的名字，我会开始怀念他们，而这些人实在太多太多。但我还是要特别提到大卫·贝尼奥夫、丹·韦斯（权游的2个编剧）、布莱恩·考格曼（联合制片人、编剧）（我在最近写的《名利场》的一篇文章中也提过他），当然还有由HBO首席执行官理查德·普莱普尔领导的团队。还有其他《权力的游戏》的网络介绍，没有它们，权游不会如此成功。而大部分美剧，从来没有这么多网络报道。
我会继续，继续~正如我在脑海里也在撰写这篇文章一样，但我有太多话想说。“离别是如此甜蜜的悲伤”，巴德写道。（脂评：马丁大爷写这句话援引《巴氏常用妙语词典》（Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations），但原文是源自莎士比亚的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》）。在接下来的几周或几个月里，我可能会写几段在制作剧集时我最喜欢的时刻。当我怀旧的时候，可能不时地更新~但现在有太多的回忆，我没时间一一整理脑海里的思绪。
让我再多说一句——昨晚是一个结束，但也是全新的开始。没人在这之后就退休回家不干了。大卫和丹正在继续进行《星球大战》和其他的项目，亚马逊赞助布莱恩·考格曼，让他能独立开发新的节目，同时还开始“托尔金项目”（脂评：托尔金是《魔戒》《霍比特人》原著作家，估计布莱恩·考格曼在开展托尔金其他作品的改编？）演技杰出的演员们散落到各处，但之后你们会在各种电视剧和电影再次看到他们。我们的导演一如既往的忙碌。我想你们在剧集里也没有看到维斯特洛大陆最后的结局，但我觉得这完全取决于后面的节目怎么拍。
我呢？我还在这里，依然很忙。作为一名制片人，我在HBO做了五档节目（有些节目和维斯特洛大陆毫无关系），2部在Hulu（脂评：Hulu是NBC环球和新闻集团以及迪士尼合资成立的一家网络视频网站，类似于中国爱奇艺，Hulu去年正式宣布将马丁的科幻系列《百变王牌》（Wild Cards）打造成电视剧），1部在“历史频道”（脂评：《历史频道》是美国一个专门播放历史相关纪录片的电视频道）。我参与了很多专题项目，有些基于我自己写的故事和书，有些是由其他人创作的资料。我想制作一些短片，或者改编经典故事，而这些内容是由我们魔幻流派里最聪明、最古怪、最原始的作家创作的，就像我曾经在一个日本视频节目里说过的。还有“喵喵狼：起源故事”（Meow Wolf）（脂评：《喵喵狼：起源故事》是马丁拍摄的一个艺术短片，看马丁大叔的行程这么紧，怪不得《冰与火之歌》一拖再拖）
我还在写。凛冬将至，我在书中很久以前写过~的确如此。我知道《凛冬的风》（THE WINDS OF WINTER）拖得太久了，但它迟早会完成的。我无法告知何时能写完，之前我试过逼着自己（赶紧写），但结果我只想烧死你们然后自尽~（脂评：意思是你们别催了，再催就burn you all。下一部十年后再出也别催我）但这一部终究会完结的，然后迎来下一部《春天的梦想》（A DREAM OF SPRING）（脂评：意思是原著只有2卷，对应着名字是异鬼之战和君临之战）
原著怎么结局呢？我听到所有人都在问。和电视剧一样的结尾吗？还是不同？
好吧。是，不是。是，不是。是，不是。是。（脂评：这句话写得就像是沉浸于爱情中的少女掰着玫瑰花，爱我，不爱我，爱我，不爱我~最后选了“是””）？？？
你要清楚，书本身和电视剧在媒介上就天然不同。在2DB拍摄的最终季里只有6集。而我预估完成最后两卷书起码需要写3000页的手稿~如果甚至需要更多的章节和场景，我还会继续增加页数。蝴蝶效应还会继续发挥作用，只要关注我的博客的粉丝都知道，我从第一季开始就一直在提“蝴蝶效应”（脂评：马丁很早就提过“蝴蝶效应”，意思是以前几季小小剧情的更改会带来巨大的改变，他提醒我们书和剧集是2个不同的故事）。有些人物根本没上过银幕，有一些在剧中已经死去，但仍然活在书中。因此，原著的读者还会继续看到珍妮·普尔、石心夫人、penny和剃顶大人、Arianne Martelte、Darkstar、Vicquion Greyjoy、加兰爵士(Ser Garlan)、伊耿六世（Aegon VI）。是的，还会有独角兽~其中一种类型
书或者电视剧，哪一个会成为“真正”的大结局？这是个愚蠢的问题，斯嘉丽·奥哈拉有多少个孩子？（脂评：在原著里她有3个孩子，但在剧集里一个都没有，这也是马丁之前举例说明蝴蝶效应）
不如这样？我写我的，你看你的。每个人都可以在网上发表自己的评论。（脂评：马丁可潇洒了，这句话是一千个读者有一千个哈姆雷特，你看你的，我写我的）
Title: The End
The last night, the last show. After eight epic seasons, HBO’s GAME OF THRONES series has come to an end.
It is hard to believe it is over, if truth be told. The years have gone past in the blink of an eye. Can it really have been more than a decade since my manager Vince Gerardis set up a meeting at the Palm in LA, and I sat down for the first time with David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for a lunch that lasted well past dinner? I asked them if they knew who Jon Snow’s mother was. Fortunately, they did.
That was how it started. It ended last night.
I had no clue, that afternoon at the Palm, that I was about to embark on a journey that would change my life. I had optioned books and stories for television and film before. Some had even been made There was no way to know that this one was going to be different, that this pilot would not only be shot, but would go on to become the most successful show in the history of HBO, win a record number of Emmy Awards, become the most popular (and most pirated) show in the world, and transform a group of talented but largely unknown actors into major celebrities and stars. Even less did I imagine that I would somehow become a celebrity as well… and if truth be told, I’m still not sure how that happened.
It has been a wild ride, to say the least.
I want to thank people, but there are so many. There were forty-two cast members at the season eight premiere in New York City, and that wasn’t even all of them. And the crew, though less visible than the cast, were no less important. We had some amazing people working on this show, as all those Emmys bear witness. David & Dan assembled a championship team. The directors were incredible as well. I should start naming names, but then I’d miss someone, there were so many. But I do need to mention David Benioff, Dan Weiss, Bryan Cogman (the third head of the dragon, as I said in the recent VANITY FAIR piece about him), and of course the great team at HBO, headed by Richard Plepler. Any other network, and GAME OF THRONES would not have been what it became. Most other networks, this series never gets made at all.
I could go on and on… and have, as I’ve been writing this post in my head… but there’s really too much to say. Parting is such sweet sorrow, the Bard wrote. In the weeks and months to come, I may post about some of my favorite moments from the making of this show… now and again, when I am feeling nostalgic… but just now, there are so many memories, and no time to do them all justice.
Let me say this much — last night was an ending, but it was also a beginning. Nobody is retiring any time soon. David and Dan are going on to STAR WARS and other projects beyond that. Amazon scooped up Bryan Cogman, and put him to work on developing shows of his own, as well as helping out on their big Tolkien project. Our brilliant cast has scattered to the four winds, but you’ll be seeing a lot of them in the years to come, in all manner of television shows and movies. Our directors are keeping busy as well. I suspect that you have not seen the last of Westeros on your television sets either, but I guess that all depends on how some of these successor shows turn out.
And me? I’m still here, and I’m still busy. As a producer, I’ve got five shows in development at HBO (some having nothing whatsoever to do with the world of Westeros), two at Hulu, one on the History Channel. I’m involved with a number of feature projects, some based upon my own stories and books, some on material created by others. There are these short films I am hoping to make, adaptations of classic stories by one of the most brilliant, quirky, and original writers our genre has ever produced. I’ve consulted on a video game out of Japan. And then there’s Meow Wolf…
And I’m writing. Winter is coming, I told you, long ago… and so it is. THE WINDS OF WINTER is very late, I know, I know, but it will be done. I won’t say when, I’ve tried that before, only to burn you all and jinx myself… but I will finish it, and then will come A DREAM OF SPRING.
How will it all end? I hear people asking. The same ending as the show? Different?
Well… yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes.
I am working in a very different medium than David and Dan, never forget. They had six hours for this final season. I expect these last two books of mine will fill 3000 manuscript pages between them before I’m done… and if more pages and chapters and scenes are needed, I’ll add them. And of course the butterfly effect will be at work as well; those of you who follow this Not A Blog will know that I’ve been talking about that since season one. There are characters who never made it onto the screen at all, and others who died in the show but still live in the books… so if nothing else, the readers will learn what happened to Jeyne Poole, Lady Stoneheart, Penny and her pig, Skahaz Shavepate, Arianne Martell, Darkstar, Victarion Greyjoy, Ser Garlan the Gallant, Aegon VI, and a myriad of other characters both great and small that viewers of the show never had the chance to meet. And yes, there will be unicorns… of a sort…
Book or show, which will be the “real” ending? It’s a silly question. How many children did Scarlett O’Hara have?
How about this? I’ll write it. You read it. Then everyone can make up their own mind, and argue about it on the internet.
