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Game of Thrones wrapped up its eighth and final season in May. The finale, and the entire final season, was controversial. Some people enjoyed it. Others didn’t. Some thought it was fine. Whatever the case, the ending was a much-discussed event.

But will the reaction to the final season impact author George R.R. Martin’s final two novels? It doesn’t sound like it. Martin told EW that he feels a “temptation” to change plans for his next entry, The Winds of Winter, but he won’t do it.

“That’s wrong,” he said about changing his writing based on how people reacted to the show. “Because you’ve been planning for a certain ending and if you suddenly change direction just because somebody figured it out, or because they don’t like it, then it screws up the whole structure. So no, I don’t read the fan sites. I want to write the book I’ve always intended to write all along. And when it comes out they can like it or they can not like it.”

Martin said the internet has changed how fan theories are spread, and how much steam they pick up. In a time before the internet, only 1 in 100 people might accurately put together the threads of a mystery like Jon Snow’s parentage. But with the internet, if one person finds a clue, they post it online and then everyone else understands a plot reveal they might not have otherwise seen coming.

Game of Thrones the TV show got ahead of Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, upon which the show is based. Martin said he told Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss “a number of things” related to his plans, and some of this ended up in the show. However, Martin’s novel series will take a different path towards its conclusion, it seems.

“It’s like two alternate realities existing side by side,” Martin said about the show and his book series. “I have to double down and do my version of it which is what I’ve been doing.”

As for when Martin plans to finish The Winds of Winter, well, you can probably guess his response. “It will be done when it’s done,” he said.

Looking ahead, a Game of Thrones “celebration” panel is slated for San Diego Comic-Con this week, but Weiss and Benioff–as well as Ian Glen and Nathalie Emmanuel–have dropped out. While they will no longer appear, a lot of other actors will, including Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), Raleigh Ritchie (Greyworm), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Isaac Wright (Bran Stark), John Bradley West (Samwell Tarly), Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth), and Conleth Hill (Varys).

The panel is scheduled to take place on Friday, July 19, and it will surely be one to watch. Keep checking back with GameSpot for the latest.

Spider-Man: Far From Home is a huge success at the box office, while critics and fans alike are generally enjoying it, so a third movie in the new series starring Tom Holland is expected.

Now, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has started to talk about it. Marvel has yet to make any official announcements about a new Spider-Man movie, but it seems clear that Marvel and Sony are already mapping out the character’s future in the MCU. Scroll down to see what Feige had to say.

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At the end of Far From Home, J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) broadcasts a video that Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) recorded before he died, revealing to the world that Spider-Man is Peter Parker. The fact that Spider-Man’s identity is now known will be a major storyline going forward, Feige told Fandango.

It will be similar to how Tony Stark revealed himself to be Iron Man at the end of the 2008 film. “The rules have changed,” Feige said.

This means the next Spider-Man movie will “have to do something completely different.”

With Iron Man, the sequels told new stories where the world knew Tony Stark was the superhero. Everything is different for Spider-Man/Peter Parker in this way as well. Not only is his identity revealed, but Jameson is leading a disinformation campaign alleging that Spider-Man killed Mysterio.

“Now people know Peter’s identity. People now think he’s a villain, Mysterio plays one last trick on him and succeeds… [so that] means everything’s different,” Feige said. “Where it goes, we’ll see. But it’s exciting that it once again sets us up for a Peter Parker story that has never been done before on film.”

You can read the full interview here at Fandango.

For lots more on Far From Home, check out GameSpot’s roundup of all the Marvel Easter eggs and references–there are a lot.