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‘Game of Thrones’s George R.R. Martin has some updates and surprises about its upcoming projects
‘Game of Thrones’ still has many more stories to tell, and the author of the novels has some updates about all the projects currently in development.
George R.R Martin, the author of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, as well as producer and screenwriter, has ended the year like many: taking stock. In the most recent message posted on his official blog he confirmed that although some projects still do not have the green light from HBO, he and his teams are working on new animation productions. On the other hand, he explained that the platform has set aside other projects, although he does not rule out that they could be recovered in the future.This is Hollywood, after all. And since this is Hollywood, the live-action series ‘Game of Thrones: Nine Voyages’ is now animation.
“HBO and I have our own animated projects, set in the world of A SONG OF ICE & FIRE. None of them have been greenlit yet, but I think we are getting close to taking the next step with a couple of them. When this last round of development started a few years back, we had four ideas for animated shows, with some great talents attached. Writers rooms and summits, outline and scripts followed in due course… but, alas, two of the original projects were subsequently shelved.”
As he recalls, Martin prefers to talk about ‘shelved’ projects rather than ‘killed’ series and movies because “nothing is ever dead for good in Hollywood”. After all, an idea can be “put on the shelf one year can be taken off the shelf a few years later.” The writer keeps his hopes alive and hopes to be able to tell those stories in another format, perhaps a graphic novel.
Three ‘Game of Thrones’ animation projects, including ‘Nine Voyages’
“Work on the other two animated projects continues apace, however…and meanwhile, we have moved NINE VOYAGES, our series about the legendary voyages of the Sea Snake, over from live action to animation. A move I support fully”. According to the author, the series would have been too expensive to produce, since almost everything takes place at sea. As if that were not enough, they would have had to build each of the ports serts. “So we now have three animated projects underway,” he added.
Before all these ideas crystallize, viewers will have the opportunity to see something more tangible. In the summer of 2024, the second season of The House of the Dragon, which will display the mythical “Dance of Dragons”, the bloody internal war of the Targaryens.