 When discussing the possibility of his own works receiving unauthorized sequels after his death, "A Song of Ice and Fire" author George R. R. Martin called such books "abominations, to my mind, like [...] "Scarlett", the [...] "Gone With the Wind" sequel".It was adapted as a television mini-series of the same title in 1994 starring Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O'Hara.The plot of the mini-series varies considerably from the book.