Last week’s news of Jane Goldman’s
Game of Thrones prequel pilot may not be the end of HBO’s spinoff plans. Of course, we’ve
known for some time that HBO was considering
five possible prequels to continue, and expand, the
Game of Thrones universe—but we still have no idea just how many will pan out. Goldman’s show getting a pilot suggests four remain, and on
his blog,
A Song of Ice and Fire creator George R.R. Martin provided an update on the rest.
Martin said that one of the ideas has been rejected—but that the three that remain could still happen, even though Goldman’s is moving ahead first.
“Three more
Game of Thrones prequels, set in different periods and featuring different characters and storylines, remain in active development,” the author wrote. “Everything I am told indicates that we could film at least one more pilot, and maybe more than one, in the years to come. We do have an entire world and tens of thousands of years of history to play with, after all. But this is television, so nothing is certain.”
Martin said he’s been consulting with most of the people involved with those shows and some have even come to visit him to discuss the ideas. However, he says he won’t be writing on any of them because he’s still working on
the next book in the series,
The Winds of Winter.
“Work on
Winds of Winter continues, and remains my top priority,” Martin continued. “It is ridiculous to think otherwise. If I wasn’t busy with
Winds, don’t you think I’d be scripting one or more of these pilots myself? It’s not as if I’ve never written for TV…”
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