20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About George RR Martin
8. ...And A Bunch Of Other TV Shows
That wasn't the end of his Hollywood odyssey, however. Far from it. Since then Martin has not only consulted with HBO on the Game Of Thrones TV show but has written a few scripts himself, including the second season episode Blackwater. He very nearly had a cameo in the infamous Red Wedding scene, a part he only missed out on because his schedule wouldn't allow for filming his role. But even before that, he was almost as prolific in television as he was in published fiction. He was hired onto Max Headroom off the back of his work on the revived Twilight Zone series that aired in the eighties, being pinched by ABC along with Michael Cassutt. In fact, most of the writers came from the supernatural CBS show. Martin continued to work on television, mainly because his career had been essentially destroyed by the critical and commercial failure of his fourth book, Armageddon's Rag. Only such a downturn in fortunes could drive a man to to write the lion's share of the Beauty And The Beast CBS drama which updated the drama to the modern day, with Ron Perlam as the noble man-beast.
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