Fans of Game Of Thrones should rejoice. George RR Martin, father of the series universe, signed a five-year agreement with the HBO television channel to develop “New content”, announced Monday, March 29, the WarnerMedia group, which owns HBO, in a statement to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
However, the press release does not specify whether this contract relates to other projects in the universe of Game Of Thrones. But the saga has been so successful, with fifty-nine Emmy Awards to its chase chart in the span of eight seasons, that spinoff series seem inevitable.
Martin, whose series of novels The iron Throne gave rise to the hit series Game Of Thrones, is already working on an adaptation of a prelude, House of the dragon, which takes place 300 years earlier. The spinoff series is announced for 2022.
According to the specialist magazine Hollywood Reporter, the tens of millions of dollars contract would include the tale of warrior queen Nymeria, believed to have reigned a millennium before the events of Game Of Thrones, whose working title would be 10,000 Ships.
Adaptation of works by other authors
Among the projects under study in the world of Westeros, would also appear 9 trips, from the creators of the historic series Rome, and a dark tale set in a sordid and infamous district of the city of Port-Réal, Culpucier (Fleabottom in original version).
A television series adapted from Tales of Dunk and Egg, a collection of short stories published by George RR Martin about a knight errant and his squire, is also the subject of persistent rumors.
In its statement, WarnerMedia also confirms that the writer will be part of the production team of two HBO projects inspired by the works of other authors of fantasy novels: Who is afraid of death (Who fears death?), by Nnedi Okorafor, and Landmarks on the road (Roadmarks), by Roger Zelazny.
Martin is also involved in the adaptation for Netflix of one of his first stories, The Kings of the Sands (Sandkings) and this multiplication of projects makes fans of the Iron Throne that the 72-year-old author cannot complete his literary cycle, already overtaken by the television series. It’s been almost ten years since the last volume of the saga, A Dance with Dragons, has been published.