A Fourth Game of Thrones Spin-Off Is Seemingly Still in the Works

Game of Thrones designer George R.R. Martin mightiness beryllium less than thrilled with the existent authorities of House of the Dragon, which conscionable concluded its 2nd play and has a 3rd connected the way, but HBO—which pushed done the antagonistic absorption to Thrones‘ last play and launched Dragon to large fanfare—isn’t shying distant from exploring much of Westeros. We already cognize of 2 much spin-offs, 1 that’s officially en route and one that might beryllium happening, and present a 2nd rubric successful that second class has a tiny update to share.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which similar House of the Dragon involves the almighty Targaryen house, is acceptable astir 100 years earlier Game of Thrones; it’s actively successful production and is slated to get connected HBO successful 2025. Then, there’s Ten Thousand Ships, a much past communicative of people leader Queen Nymeria; successful June, Martin himself revealed that Pulitzer-winning playwright Eboni Booth is crafting a caller pilot, though there’s been nary connection from HBO if the amusement is officially successful development.

And that brings america to yet different imaginable spin-off—no, not the Jon Snow show; that one’s disconnected the array entirely—that honestly we’d astir forgotten about, focusing connected the archetypal large Targaryen ruler, Aegon the Conqueror. He was the archetypal Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, which means helium pre-dates by respective generations his namesake, King Aegon II, who House of the Dragon fans cognize precise well. But his bequest (and definite trappings of his reign, similar his sword, Blackfyre, and the outrageously immense skull of his dragon, Balerion) looms large, particularly successful King’s Landing.

The excitement of Aegon’s Conquest is simply a earthy prime for a Thrones spin-off, and 1 of the originative minds moving connected the imaginable amusement (like Ten Thousand Ships, it is not yet HBO-official) is Mattson Tomlin, who’s presently making the rounds promoting Netflix’s caller anime bid Terminator Zero. Nexus Point News (via Collider) asked Tomlin astir his attack to penning the Aegon the Conqueror series, which is seemingly taking its cues from the aforesaid Targaryen past that’s shaping House of the Dragon, Martin’s Fire & Blood.

“It starts with what George has done. I’ve present gotten to walk rather a spot of clip with him, and determination person been a batch of pinch-me moments of conscionable benignant of going done Fire & Blood, highlighting passages, and asking him, ‘What did this mean? What is this?’ What I deliberation it is. You cognize sometimes truly grilling him, going, ‘I don’t understand, what’s happening here.’ And past different times going, ‘I deliberation that it could mean this.’ But it’s truly taking that substance and treating it similar it’s existent history,” helium explained.

“… My attack to it was [that] Fire & Blood is written similar a existent past and these things happened … but past besides there’s that large punctuation that idiosyncratic overmuch smarter than I said: past is written by the radical who won,” Tomlin continued. “And truthful past there’s that arsenic well. For me, it’s astir making definite that I respect George and I respect the text. And past also, it inactive has to beryllium a melodramatic story. Those characters person to spell connected a journey; they person to change; they person to spell from a opening to a mediate to an end. Figuring retired however to bash each of that with the clues that that textbook has near for maine and go, okay, I’m going to construe this precise existent past and effort to marque it a truly vivid amusement that hopefully radical emotion and don’t hate, doing the champion I can.”

Are you funny successful an Aegon the Conqueror series, oregon are you increasing weary of blonde royals riding dragons? Let america cognize successful the comments below.

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