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The April Fools’ Joke That Almost Was

By Winter Is Coming on April 2, 2009
Filed Under: Speculation

The faithful readers of George R. R. Martin’s Not A Blog may have noticed his April Fool’s joke post yesterday about bringing on a fellow writer to help him co-author Dance and the rest of the series. While the post was humorous and believable enough, it was fairly light-hearted. What George really wanted to do was even more ambitious. He commented on today’s blog post, where he came clean about the joke, mentioning his original plan.

Actually, everyone got off easy.

I was trying to convince Benioff and Weiss to announce an entire fake cast for HBO’s GAME OF THRONES pilot, but David and Dan are much nicer guys than I am.

But then, they’re too young to have been warped by Froggy the Gremlin at a formative age, like me.

Winter Is Coming: Now that is just mean, George. He had me going for about a minute or two with yesterday’s post. However, if he had been able to follow through with his original plan I probably would have bought it hook, line and sinker.

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10 Comments

  1. Anonymous
    Posted April 2, 2009 at 12:24 pm | Permalink

    it was believable until the dodo bird part.
    -j-

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  2. Anonymous
    Posted April 2, 2009 at 3:15 pm | Permalink

    He played a similar April fools joke last year too, about how he would change his writing style writing A Dance with Dragons. That was a good one too. So, I saw this one coming.

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  3. johnnybaowulf
    Posted April 2, 2009 at 7:52 pm | Permalink

    The year before he announced his plans to merge the worlds of Wild Cards and Westeros.

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  4. Anonymous
    Posted April 3, 2009 at 12:34 am | Permalink

    Urgh… if the fake cast would have been announced, I'd have been so busy checking what kind of people were chosen that I wouldn't have doubted a single second. After that I'd propably called all my friends (those who are fangirls/boys) and rambled on hideous/terrific/bland choices. So I guess I should be grateful for D&D's resistance. On the other hand, it would have been a total laugh

    And yeah, the joke carried through was quite believable until the dodos entered :)

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  5. Anonymous
    Posted April 3, 2009 at 4:42 am | Permalink

    I find it worrisome that they haven’t even started casting yet even though it’s only 6 months until they (supposedly) start filming. Or is that not unusual?

    rtm1981

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  6. dizzy
    Posted April 3, 2009 at 7:04 am | Permalink

    A fake cast list would have been brilliant. The other thing I didn’t buy for a second.

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  7. world-dancer
    Posted April 3, 2009 at 8:39 am | Permalink

    Ug, the Wildcards scam last year. I didn’t believe it, but I think that’s when my annoyance with the series actually crystalized into hatred. It was just so unfunny, and while I wasn’t usually one to complain about GRRM “wasting time on other projects” before, after that I can’t look at any of his other releases without feeling that he just doesn’t care about Westros anymore.

    This year, if he’d released a fake cast I would probably have been left annoyed as well. Don’t know if I would have believed it due to the sudden speed, but considering how much chain yanking there is just in “I’ll finish DwD this year, I swear” I don’t find further “jokes” at all amusing.

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  8. Anonymous
    Posted April 3, 2009 at 11:19 am | Permalink

    A fake cast would have been funny for fans (eventually), but a disaster for the HBO production. Mentioning the names of actors in the context of a prank would have risked offending all kinds of Hollywood types.

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  9. The Flying Dutchman
    Posted April 6, 2009 at 6:58 am | Permalink

    Pfff… funny man, haha.

    I will start smiling when he actually finishes the book. Maybe he reaaly needs some help…?

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  10. Livvey
    Posted April 11, 2009 at 4:51 pm | Permalink

    Would have been so horribly horribly cruel – and I am glad for my own sake he couldn’t follow through, as anonymous points out.

    But yeah so – Winter? Couldn’t you find something out about how casting is normally done for this kind of projects. I mean timewise. Or has this been done already, seems vaguely familiar as I am writing this down.
    If so, apologize for my horrendous memory ;)

    But then again? Maybe an analyzis on the whole would be appropriate Winter?
    Ah! Sorry, this is just me being pathetic and newsthirsty! I think you HAVE done this earlier.
    Somewhere…

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