HBO has ordered a pilot for A Game of Thrones (Spectra), the first book in George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The series should consist of seven books. If HBO takes the series, the producers intend for each novel to encompass a season, the paper said.
Executive producers are David Benioff (who besides many screen credits is the author of A City of Thieves), D.B. Weiss and Guymon Casady. Benioff said, "Fantasy is the most successful genre in terms of feature films given the incredible popularity of the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movies. High fantasy has never been done on TV before, and if anybody can do it, it's HBO. They've taken tired genres and reinvented them--mobsters in The Sopranos and Westerns with Deadwood."