Replies to post #104344 on Mike The Pike Productions Inc (fka MIKP)

[Nikodemos]

Last I checked $MIKP doesn't sell books! "Game of Thrones" books run in a SERIES/BUNDLE/VOLUMES,
some of which top 900 pages or more! For adults, the series was among the BEST SELLING of ALL TIME!!

Frankly, I don't think you have ANY CLUE what you HAD -- & what was LOST!

Title in series & PAGES per book!

1 A Game of Thrones 694
2 A Clash of Kings 768
3 A Storm of Swords 973
4 A Feast for Crows 753
5 A Dance with Dragons 1056
6 The Winds of Winter Forthcoming[22]
7 A Dream of Spring Forthcoming[23]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#See_also

Because IN MY MIND -- if you did, you'd be GETTING on the BAT PHONE & encouraging Mark to mediate & SALVAGE that situation! The IP is already ASSIGNED. And there are GLOBAL FANS clamoring for more of his IP to be made into movies, films, TV series,... Hell a comic book, even if just to STORYBOARD for a film would have brought in PLENTY OF REVENUES!! That's how much appetite there is for this guys work.

Look, I like O' Connor. And I like her book. And I don't doubt that IN THE RIGHT HANDS, & with a LITTLE BIT OF LUCK, it could bring in revenues AT SOME POINT. Eventually & much, much LATER if Mark can only secure net-profit percentages ...

But Barbara O' Connor hasn't had ANY of the GLOBAL commercial film success of GRRM, & Mark should NOT have let that IP slip through SHAREHOLDERS FINGERS like that! It was just ANOTHER bone-headed, POOR, reflective of his INEXPERIENCE & LACK OF BUSINESS ACCUMEN in this role!!

Performance PERAMETERS would have circumvented, put rails on the project & ENSURED IT MOVED FORWARD -- or SWIFTLY BACK into the HANDS of $MIKP hands & shareholders where it BELONGS -- so that it COULD BE MONETIZED.


Now it's ANOTHER FAILURE in his CAP! Congrats!

A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published five out of a planned seven volumes. The fifth and most recent volume of the series, A Dance with Dragons, was published in 2011, six years after the publication of the preceding book, A Feast for Crows. He is currently writing the sixth novel, The Winds of Winter. A seventh novel, A Dream of Spring, is planned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#See_also

HBO’s "Game of Thrones" has ended, but the book series by George R.R. Martin it's based on has never been more popular. Even with the show's controversial ending, the books' popularity shows no sign of slowing down.

The book bundle containing the first five books in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series reached its highest rank on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list — No. 8 — since its debut in 2013. The first book in the series, "A Game of Thrones" also cracked the top 10 following the series finale, at No. 6.

The books have been a mainstay on the list since the HBO series premiered in 2011... ....

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2019/06/04/game-thrones-books-reach-new-heights-best-seller-list/1340259001/