DBWI: A live action Song of Ice And Fire Tv Show?

Song of Ice and Fire, for those who don't know, is an animated serries on Netflix baised on the serries of fantasy novels by George R R Martin. Despite being critically acclaimed and with a decent cult following, it's low ratings mean that it's to be canceled at the end of this season. What if instead of being an animated Netflix original, it was a live action serries on something like HBO or FX? Would it be more popular?
 
Song of Ice and Fire, for those who don't know, is an animated serries on Netflix baised on the serries of fantasy novels by George R R Martin. Despite being critically acclaimed and with a decent cult following, it's low ratings mean that it's to be canceled at the end of this season. What if instead of being an animated Netflix original, it was a live action serries on something like HBO or FX? Would it be more popular?

After the live action Hobbit flopped so bad on HBO? doubtful it'd get approval.
 
After the live action Hobbit flopped so bad on HBO? doubtful it'd get approval.
The problem there was Peter Jackson trying to keep it family freindly on one end, and HBO trying to make it Darker and Edgier on the other. What we where left with was something too Grimm dark for fans of Tolkien, and too childish for HBO. Less of a problem for Song of Ice and Fire. It's pretty dark to begin with. Incest, Patricide, and what not.
 
For one I doubt they could have kept the show as accurate to the books as Netflix did. Budget constraints and such would probably have prevented them from showing as many battles on screen as the animated series. For all we know, the Battle of Ice would be happening off-screen and due to too much of the cast to pay, they would eliminate a lot of important characters early on. Ser Barristan, for example, or maybe even some of the Dornish and (don't kill me for saying this) Stannis the Mannis.

Hell, I doubt Aegon VI would have made it to the show, despite how popular he is on Netflix. He is, in the end, a side character whose role can arguably be taken by Daenerys for a more condensed view of Westeros (something HBO at least if not FX would support).
 
Well, the obvious thing is that we wouldn't have the Star Trek: Final Frontier animation project between Netflix and Paramount - in ASOIAF's early days, Netflix saw dollar signs from 'nerd property' animation and Paramount's planned new Trek film fell though, so...

Mind you, now that they're cancelling ASOIAF, I wonder how long Final Frontier will last. Hope it doesn't go - the ratings are still pretty high and the new story arc is damn good.

OOC: Based on the planned animated Trek series...
 
Remember that Batman: The Animated Series becoming a massive ratings smash on primetime FOX in the 90s was the beginning of the animation drama boom. Butterfly that away and you butterfly away a lot of the popular animated book adaptations, including probably SoIaF.
 
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