HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, wrapped up its second season earlier this month. The collection isn’t anticipated to return with its third — and apparently penultimate — season till 2026, which means that viewers might have one other two complete years to attend earlier than they lastly get to see House of the Dragon begin delivering on a number of the main moments that it has spent its first 18 episodes establishing. That doesn’t, nonetheless, imply that Game of Thrones followers must wait two years to return to the franchise’s fictional fantasy world.
On the opposite, HBO has various different Thrones spinoffs in growth along with House of the Dragon season 3, together with one that’s filming proper now. It might not, in different phrases, be lengthy earlier than viewers get to begin making much more frequent return journeys to Westeros, in addition to the seas and lands that encompass it.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2025)
To date, HBO has solely begun filming certainly one of its different, long-in-development Game of Thrones spinoffs. The collection in query is A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is about round 80 years after the occasions of House of the Dragon and round 90 years earlier than Game of Thrones begins. Based on Thrones writer George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas, the present will comply with “Dunk,” aka Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey), a hedge knight (i.e., a wandering warrior not sworn to at least one grasp), as he journeys throughout the Seven Kingdoms seeking employment and recognition. Along the way in which, he joins up with a younger squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), whose connection to Westeros’ Targaryen dynasty isn’t instantly clear to Dunk.
The collection’ six-episode first season will likely be run by House of the Dragon author Ira Parker and directed by Black Mirror filmmaker Owen Harris and Sarah Adina Smith. It’s anticipated to premiere on HBO in 2025 and guarantees to be a smaller manufacturing than each House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones. That mustn’t solely assist it stand out from its franchise’s different installments, but in addition make it simpler for the collection to return with new seasons — ought to or not it’s renewed — on a extra common foundation than House of the Dragon.
Aegon’s Conquest (TBA)
In February, it was reported by The Hollywood Reporter that HBO had begun “actively” growing a brand new Game of Thrones prequel collection centered round Aegon the Conqueror’s conquest of Westeros. The legacy of that army marketing campaign, which resulted within the union of six of Westeros’ eventual seven kingdoms, looms giant over the occasions of each Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, the latter of which depicts the start of the tip 0f the Targaryen dynasty that Aegon the Conqueror and his sister wives put in.
It’s stated that HBO’s curiosity within the prequel elevated as soon as the community started to work on it with The Batman Part II co-writer Mattson Tomlin. HBO hasn’t publicly acknowledged the prequel collection since this preliminary report was launched, so it’s unclear whether or not or not it’s even occurring. Ever because it was introduced that HBO was all for producing Game of Thrones spinoffs, although, Aegon’s Conquest is a narrative that followers have regularly named as one of the crucial apparent topics of a possible present.
It isn’t, subsequently, shocking that an Aegon’s Conquest prequel is in growth. Whether it’ll ever truly come to fruition is one other matter altogether and stays to be seen.
Nine Voyages/Sea Snake (TBA)
HBO has been reportedly growing a House of the Dragon prequel titled Nine Voyages for a number of years now. The venture is alleged to depict the 9 naval voyages taken by Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) that helped elevate him to a robust standing inside the Game of Thrones franchise’s fictional world within the many years main as much as the beginning of House of the Dragon. It’s these 9 voyages that additionally earned Corlys the identical moniker as his legendary ship, Sea Snake. Corlys’ adventures have been hinted at and alluded to all through House of the Dragon‘s first two seasons, however viewers have to date seen little or no of his naval prowess. Nine Voyages would probably rectify that.
George R.R. Martin announced final yr that Nine Voyages had reworked in its ongoing growth because of manufacturing limitations from a live-action prequel to an animated collection. “Budgetary constraints would likely have made a live-action version prohibitively expensive, what with half the show taking place at sea, and the necessity of creating a different port every week,” Martin wrote. “There’s a whole world out there. And we have a lot better chance of showing it all with animation.” It has been reported {that a} pilot script was written for the collection by The Mentalist creator Bruno Heller, but it surely’s unclear whether or not HBO has chosen to maneuver ahead with that model of Nine Voyages or not.
The similar is true of the collection itself, which stays in the identical ambiguous developmental state as lots of HBO’s different Thrones prequels and spinoffs. The indisputable fact that it has managed to constantly stick round over the previous few years, nonetheless, means that it might finally have a greater shot of premiering sooner or later than others.
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Ten Thousand Ships (TBA)
Ten Thousand Ships is a Game of Thrones prequel that has been in growth at HBO since way back to 2017. Set practically 1,000 years earlier than the occasions of Thrones, the venture explores the origins of Dorne and, particularly, the journey that the legendary warrior-queen Princess Nymeria of Ny Sar led when she and her individuals have been pressured out of their homeland by the Valyrians. It’s stated that Nymeria assembled a fleet of 10,000 ships to hold her individuals throughout the ocean seeking a brand new house, which might finally grow to be the area of Dorne.
A pilot for Ten Thousand Ships was initially written by L.A. Confidential and Man on Fire author Brian Helgeland, who informed Inverse in April that the venture hadn’t been “picked up yet” by HBO. Following Helgeland’s contribution, it was reported that screenwriter Amanda Segel had been employed to put in writing a brand new pilot script for the venture, and George R.R. Martin revealed in March 2022 that Segel had delivered “a couple drafts of that one, and we are forging ahead.” It’s unclear what got here of Segel’s imaginative and prescient for Ten Thousand Ships, although, as Martin additionally claimed in June of this yr that playwright Eboni Booth was “working on a new pilot” for the venture that he and HBO have been “very excited about.”
Like Nine Voyages, Ten Thousand Ships has seemingly survived a number of completely different permutations with out being completely shelved. That looks like a powerful indication of HBO’s stage of curiosity in it, however given the epic scale of its story, it will additionally symbolize some main logistical challenges. Only time will inform whether or not or not it truly has a future on the small display screen.
The Golden Empire (TBA)
In 2021, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that HBO had begun growing three animated tasks set inside the world of Game of Thrones. It was famous that certainly one of them was rumored to be in regards to the Golden Empire of Yi Ti, which is actually the Game of Thrones world’s model of Imperial China. It wasn’t featured in Thrones, nor has it been visited but in House of the Dragon or Martin’s predominant Song of Ice and Fire books. Nonetheless, in 2022, Martin confirmed {that a} Yi Ti-set animated venture was in energetic growth and that the working title for it was The Golden Empire.
Since then, little or no has been revealed in regards to the venture, together with whether or not it’s nonetheless in competition for a future spotin HBO or Max’s originals lineups. In late 2023, Martin notably revealed that two of the 4 animated Thrones spinoffs that had been initially pitched to HBO had since been shelved, however he hasn’t but introduced whether or not The Golden Empire was certainly one of them.
Snow (Canceled)
Much to everybody’s shock, it was reported in 2022 that Kit Harington and HBO had begun growing a Game of Thrones sequel collection in regards to the future adventures of Harington’s Thrones character, Jon Snow. Reportedly titled Snow, the venture stays the one Thrones spinoff HBO has developed that may be set after the occasions of that monumental TV collection. That truth alone, together with Harington’s reported involvement, instantly made Snow one of the crucial attention-grabbing Thrones-related tasks that HBO has thought of up to now. Unfortunately, Snow has been indefinitely shelved.
Harington confirmed as a lot earlier this yr and not too long ago opened up in regards to the venture’s obvious demise in an interview with GQ. “We spent a couple of years back-and-forth developing it. And it just didn’t … nothing got us excited enough,” Harington revealed. “In the end, I kind of backed out and said, ‘I think if we push this any further and keep developing it, we could end up with something that’s not good. And that’s the last thing we all want.’”
Taking all of this under consideration, the probabilities of Snow ever making it previous a developmental part appear slim, however stranger issues have occurred. For now, although, viewers positively shouldn’t anticipate to see it on their tv screens anytime quickly.
Game of Thrones seasons 1-8 and House of the Dragon seasons 1-2 are streaming now on Max.