HBO Reportedly Mulling New ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel Show and Tie-In Movie
Written by SOURCE on April 4, 2023
HBO remaining in the long-term Game of Thrones business is no surprise, but another prequel based on the same source material as House of the Dragon might not have been on your Westerosi bingo card.
Variety is reporting that a spinoff is being mulled surrounding the initial Targaryen conquest of the nation fans have become intimately familiar with across the course of two TV series and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books. A show about Aegon I Targaryen riding Balerion the Black Dread over from Dragonstone alongside his “sister-wives” and fellow dragon-riders Visenya and Rhaenys is being “actively discussed” in the “very early stages,” the magazine writes, citing sources.
Aegon’s Conquest—so foundational that years in Westeros are dated AC (After the Conquest) or BC (Before the Conquest)—is recounted in detail at the outset of GRRM’s Fire and Blood. The 2018 tome goes on to cover the events of House of the Dragon (i.e. the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons) and the family’s entire history to the end of its dynasty, which fell two decades prior to Game of Thrones.
Making this potential spinoff more notable is the possibility, per Variety, of a movie tie-in where “HBO and Warner Bros. would produce a feature film that would then lead into the potential series, though plans remain in flux at present.”
No writers are attached, although HBO is evidently “keen to move forward and get it into development.”
Last year’s debut season of House of the Dragon was the first Thrones spinoff to hit screens, but many, many more have been considered. These include a Jon Snow follow-up set after the events of GoT, an adaptation of Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg prequel novellas, and multiple animated series. HBO’s first attempt at a Thrones follow-up—yet another prequel, rumored to have been called The Long Night and starring Naomi Watts—was nixed during the pilot stage.
