News on HBO adaption of A Song of Ice and Fire

The latest from George R. R. Martin's blog on the HBO adaption of Ice and Fire: 

"The latest news on HBO front is that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have turned in the second draft of the pilot script for A GAME OF THRONES, and their rewrite is presently being read and evaluated by the powers-that-be at HBO. In other words, it's the normal process, which is long and often slow. So far, the reports are good, and HBO seems to like what they're seeing... but no, there's no greenlight yet, A GAME OF THRONES remains a script in development, not a series in production. 

The one hard bit of news is that HBO has reached agreement with the BBC for them to come in as a partner on the series... IF it goes ahead. That's very cool news, and I'm excited and pleased to have the BBC involved... but even so, we're still in the crossed fingers stage here, not the shooting-off-fireworks stage."

Sounds promising in any case. I hold little hope that a television version will come at all close to matching the brilliance of the novels, but then again HBO have produced some excellent series like Band of Brothers, so fingers crossed they'll do a good job. If they get the green light. 

You can read the rest of the blog entry here.