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Four different ‘Game of Thrones’ prequels in the works
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A still from a 'Game of Thrones' episode. (HBO/Macall B. Polay)
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s Game of Thrones approaches its final episodes, HBO has announced that it has hired writers for four different potential Game of Thrones prequel series.
According to reports from IGN, each of the four shows will take a look at different time periods in the Song of Ice and Fire canon, and from there, HBO will choose which will go to air.
While show-runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have said that it would be unlikely that they would helm running or writing for future spin-offs, both will be acting as executive producers on each of the potential shows.
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The four writing teams currently are: Max Borenstein (Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island); Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and George R.R. Martin; Brian Helgeland (LA: Confidential, Robin Hood); and Carly Wray (Mad Men, The Leftovers) and George R.R. Martin.
Some speculate that due to Martin’s presence on two of the four teams, one of the spin-offs may involve a Dunk & Egg series.
“The most natural follow-up would be an adaptation of my Dunk & Egg stories. Each of the novellas could easily be done as a two-hour stand-alone movie for television; that would probably be the ideal way to do them, rather than as an ongoing weekly series. The Hedge Knight and its sequels are lighter [in tone] than A Song of Ice and Fire, more in the realm of action/adventure,” Martin told Entertainment Weekly in 2016. (sul/kes)
