Streaming House of the Dragon (Game of Thrones prequel)

[Bomberboyokay]

HBO has closed deals with four different writers to explore multiple possible spinoffs of “Game of Thrones.”

The premium cable channel says that there is no timeline for development of the projects. “We’ll take as much or as little time as the writers need and, as with all our development, we will evaluate what we have when the scripts are in,” a spokesperson said.

The four writers are Max Borenstein (“Kong: Skull Island”), Jane Goldman (“Kingsman: The Golden Circle”), Brian Helgeland (“Legend”), and Carly Wray (“Mad Men,” “The Leftovers”). Goldman and Wray will each be working individually with novelist and “Game of Thrones” creator George R. R. Martin.

“Game of Thrones” executive producers and showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff will be attached to the four projects, as will Martin, but will not write on any of them.

A spinoff to “Game of Thrones” — the most watched series in HBO history — has been a source of speculation for years. In recent months, HBO executive began to privately acknowledge that the network was searching for writers to develop ideas based on the series and Martin’s best-selling fantasy novels from which it is adapted.

Asked about a possible spinoff last year at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, HBO programming president Casey Bloys said, “We’ve talked about it. It’s something I’m not opposed to. But, of course, it has to make sense creatively. I am not sure that the guys [Weiss and Benioff] can really wrap their heads around it when they’re just about to start production. It’s a pretty intense production. They’re about to start production soon, but I’m open to it. The guys weren’t opposed to it, but there is no concrete plans, or anything like that at this point.”

Season 7 of “Game of Thrones” is set to premiere July 16. Production on the show pushed the premiere of the new season past its usual April start date, in order to capture the weather the producers wanted. The new season will consist of seven episodes. The eighth and final season, which Weiss and Benioff have already begun writing, will be between six and eight episodes.

The Season 6 finale of “Game of Thrones” drew a series-high 8.9 million viewers in overnight numbers —an expecially high number given premium HBO’s much smaller viewer base than broadcast and basic-cable nets. Season 6 averaged 23.3 million multiplatform viewers, according to the service.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/game-of-thrones-spinoff-hbo-1202409434/

What exciting stories could we expect?

 

[Footypie32]

Would love to see the story of Robert's Rebellion or the fall of Old Valeria.

 

[Dancing Potato]

A prequel series about Robert's rebellion would have to be a strong possibility. They've already cast some of the characters in the previous season of GoT too.

Would be interested to know if any are intended to follow surviving characters after the last season.

 

[GarnerSmash]

Start with Adventures on the Open Seas

 

[akkaps]

Dunk and Egg, and Robert's Rebellion need to be part of the spin offs

 

[Milanista28]

Great news.

 

[bourbons]

Yep, Robert's Rebellion or GTFO.

A Dorne story that isn't utter sh1t would be good too, preferably with a young Red Viper

 

[DapperDon]

Bob's Rebellion would be a definite starter.

Possibly the First Men v Children?

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Possibly the First Men v Children?

Too weird to be main characters.

 

[djrossie16]

Something that includes The Smiling Knight

 

[Tasmaniac]

Dunk & Egg would be a good place to start.

All new cast of characters and only a few short stories written, plus some general background comments from George, meaning they can go their own way plot wise.

Say no to spinoff's of characters from GoT, don't flog that particular horse.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Game of Thrones appears headed toward a fate-of-the-world climax (White Walkers vs everybody else). Hard to picture a sequel series to that.

 

[Gasometer]

Has to be sequels.

Prequels can gagf.

Done with.

Cooked.

 

[FISTO]

So much of this world is left unexplored. I've always been curious about whats happening in the shadowlands beyond asshai, sothoros, summer isles, the sunset sea etc

 

[GreyCrow]

Roberts Rebellion. Kingslayer

The Knights Watch

 

[RolandF1]

Has to be sequels.

Prequels can gagf.

Done with.

Cooked.

I'd be surprised if there were sequels. It would lessen whatever finale to GOT is in mind somewhat, Tv show and books.

Dunk and Egg as a Tv show would be great.

 

[Gasometer]

I'd be surprised if there were sequels. It would lessen whatever finale to GOT is in mind somewhat, Tv show and books.

Dunk and Egg as a Tv show would be great.

Speculation...as we have seen anything is possible re spin offs

 

[akkaps]

Speculation...as we have seen anything is possible re spin offs

And most of them have been shit. The Blacklist spinofff just got cancelled after half a season.

 

[Gasometer]

And most of them have been shit. The Blacklist spinofff just got cancelled after half a season.

I know.

I won't believe it until it's in production

 

[rippersnipper]

I've only read a bit about dunk and egg but their nicknames irritate me enough to not want that. Sounds more like a dumber and dumber spin off.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I feel like enough of the lore gets filled in during GOT itself that we don't need any prequels.

Whereas Better Call Saul is so fantastic because we never really had any clue about how Saul came to be.

 

[Sterge]

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...s/news-story/11d7da9f097e8b2929e2f437764590c0

THEY’RE NOT SPIN-OFFS

Martin objected to the term “spin-off”, which typically refers to a sequel using at least one pre-existing character.

“What we’re talking about are new stories set in the ‘secondary universe’ (to borrow Tolkien’s term) of Westeros and the world beyond, the world I created for A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE,” he wrote.

“None of these new shows will be ‘spinning off’ from GOT in the traditional sense. We are not talking Joey or AfterMASH or even Frazier or Lou Grant, where characters from one show continue on to another.

“So all of you who were hoping for the further adventures of Hot Pie are doomed to disappointment. Every one of the concepts under discussion is a prequel, rather than a sequel. Some may not even be set on Westeros. Rather than ‘spin-off’ or ‘prequel,’ however, I prefer the term ‘successor show’.”

He also says it won't be Dunk & Egg or Robert's Rebellion

 

[akkaps]

The adventures of Hot Pie.

I would watch that.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...s/news-story/11d7da9f097e8b2929e2f437764590c0



He also says it won't be Dunk & Egg or Robert's Rebellion

What the **** is "Frazier"?

 

[bourbons]

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...s/news-story/11d7da9f097e8b2929e2f437764590c0



He also says it won't be Dunk & Egg or Robert's Rebellion

Disappointed with no Robert's Rebellion but in general a good approach I reckon