One Step Closer to A Game of Thrones on the Screen

Not a Blog News from HBO:

HBO has just exercised its option, and purchased the television rights to A GAME OF THRONES.

For those of you who don’t know Hollywood, an option gives a production company the right to buy a property (a book, a screenplay, whatever) at a certain agreed-upon price for a certain period of time (a year, six months, whatever). When that time runs out, they can let the option lapse, renew the option, or exercise the option and buy the property. The last is what HBO has just done.

What they have NOT done is greenlight the project. A GAME OF THRONES remains in development. They’re still budgeting, still looking at locations (Spain and the Czech Republic at present, I hear). No decision has been reached, so any celebration would be premature. In Hollywood it is always best not to assume something is going to happen until it actually happens.

If anybody is going to give this novel the treatment it deserves, it would be HBO. Here’s hoping this keeps making forward progress!