HBO Executives Not Concerned About George RR Martin's Game of Thrones Books

HBO's Game of Thrones is one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved series on television, yet an ongoing discussion remains about the status of its source material. Author George R.R. Martin is notoriously slow at putting out the books in his series A Song of Ice and Fire, so some fans have been panicking that the show is going to catch up to the books and create some sort of time-space paradox.

But you know who's not concerned about it? HBO executives. They said so at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills on Thursday.

"We're not concerned about it," HBO Programming head Michael Lombardo said, according to TVLine. "We're not off on our own. George is an integral part of the creative team [and] every move is being choreographed very closely with him. We'll have to figure it out with George. We're in conversations with him."

Martin has also expressed a desire to finish Game of Thrones with a movie, but Lombardo squashed that idea for now and said HBO has had "no conversations" about wrapping up the series in a movie.

"[Martin] is 100-percent focused on his books and the series" at the moment, said HBO Chairman & CEO Richard Plepler. He added HBO executives are "not talking about ending the show in the next two years,"

What do you think, Game of Thrones fans? Are you concerned that the series will catch up to the books and plunge the whole thing into chaos? Let us know in the comments below.