“I would never do that”, Kirkman assured the interviewer.
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“That’s the one thing I’m disappointed in George R.R. Martin for doing”, Kirkman told Rolling Stone. He should have just been like, ‘F-k you. In the past they’ve tried to claim ownership of “No Sleep Til Brooklyn” and “Make America Great Again” (why they’d want THAT guy’s potential wrath I have no clue).
Do YOU think the show should have been completely different from the book?? He only took a seat back in seasons five and six so that he could focus on finishing up his next “Game of Thrones” book, “The Winds of Winter”.
This week Kirkman responded, saying in a new brief filed in New Jersey federal court, and first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, that none of those works were using “The Walking Dead” as a trademark, citing his four trademark registrations as “presumption of validity” that he owns the phrase and that “the mark is not descriptive and is inherently distinctive”.
The newest episode of “Game of Thrones”, “The Broken Man”, airs Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO.
“Game of Thrones” showrunners told Entertainment Weekly that Martin, a Northwestern University alumnus, sketched out how he plans to end his tale in a meeting two years ago. Does “The Walking Dead” follow the comics too closely?
Martin, who said he’s still typing away furiously every day, doesn’t know when the new book will be finished, but promised readers he’s going as fast as he can.
For the books? I do.
The most revealing so far is that we know Jon Snow’s fate, something which book readers have been waiting to learn since Martin’s last book, “A Dance with Dragons”, in 2011.
HBO showrunners confirmed numerous twists this season have come from Martin himself, while other story arcs have been of their own making, and they also know how the series will ultimately end. “They’re quite divergent in so many respects for the remainder of the show”.
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Kirkman, for his part, insisted to the magazine that he has his series’ ending all worked out – for the characters in the comic book, at least – but he’s not telling anyone, even his TV writing staff.
