No idea. I haven't even read the standalone books in that universe either. I really need to stop using the internet, playing games and watching something after dinner and just read. I tried the first Mazalan book and that thing made me dizzy haha. I'll have to give it a go again later because some people here said it really picks up in the later books. I also need to give Sanderson a try but I like my fantasy dirty and savage..not sure if his stuff will interest me.
Probably not but I'll take something instead of the nothing we're going to get.
To be fair, the source material, from books 4 and 5, is pretty shit, meandering, and mostly unfilmable. Darkstar is one of the worst characters I've ever had the displeasure of reading about and it's such a lame nu-metal name that it's kind of endearing how terrible it is.
If D&D give us Cleganebowl in the last season, bad pussy and Mance Rayder and Stannis's character assassinations will all be forgiven.