George R.R. Martin is maybe one of the most recognisable faces of modern fantasy—a prolific writer who made a little something called Game of Thrones, he's also worked on TV shows, movies, and even games, providing the overarching mythos for Elden Ring. A host of characters and stories which, naturally, were turned into a host of twisted monstrosities once Miyazaki got his collaborative hands on them.
He's also under a lot of pressure. A Song of Ice and Fire, the seven-book epic that began with A Game of Thrones (hence the TV adaptation's name), has only five books written so far. The most recent tome, A Dance with Dragons, arrived in 2011. If you've got a calendar handy, you might recognise that it's 2025, nearly a decade and a half later.
