‘Game of Thrones’ spin-off about Aegon the Conqueror reveals new development updates

The universe of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ doesn’t rest and the phenomenon created by George R.R. Martin continues to be on everyone’s lips with productions such as ‘The House of the Dragon’ and future spin-offs such as ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ or the highly anticipated ‘Aegon’s Conquest’. Recently, Mattson Tomlin, the screenwriter of the work that will chronicle the Targaryen conquest of Westeros, spoke with Nexus Point News (vía Westerosies) about how his conversations with George R.R. Martin are helping to shape the series.

Tomlin talks about his experience as a writer on the show, noting that “It starts with what George has done. I’ve now gotten to spend quite a bit of time with him, and there have been a lot of pinch-me moments of just kind of going through ‘Fire and Blood’, highlighting passages, and asking him, ‘What did this mean?’ ‘What is this?’ What I think it is. You know sometimes really grilling him going, I don’t understand, what’s happening here.”

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During his talk, he also discusses writing a work that is open to interpretation because of its historical nature, noting that during his experience he sometimes thought, “I think that it could mean this. But it’s really taking that text and treating it like it’s real history. That’s one of the things that my approach to it was to [that] fire and blood is written like a real history and these things happened. We know the history of Alexander the Great; we know the history of Napoleon. We know what the battles were. We know a lot of the people who died. We know in some cases what was said or what might have been said, but we don’t know everything.”

Tomlin concluded by saying “For me, it’s about making sure that I respect George and I respect the text. And then also, it still has to be a dramatic story. Those characters have to go on a journey; they have to change; they have to go from a beginning to a middle to an end. Figuring out how to do all of that with the clues that that textbook has left for me and go, okay, I’m going to interpret this very real history and try to make it a really vivid show that hopefully people love and don’t have, doing the best I can.”