HBO Developing Four Game of Thrones Spin-Off Scripts
With the seventh series of Game of Thrones coming like the proverbial winter, thought turn towards the end of the show and what that might mean.
Eager to get the ball rolling on any future adventures in Westeros, HBO have hired four different writers to develop different Game of Thrones spin-offs.
Writers Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island), Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Golden Circle), Brian Helgeland (Legend), and Carly Wray (Mad Men) are attached to develop these potential spinoffs. Despite working separately both Wray and Goldman are working with creator George R.R. Martin in their pitches.
Martin, along with Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss, will be listed as Executive Producers on the potential spin-offs, but none of them will likely write for the series.
Variety first broke the news of the embryonic spin-offs and confirmed the development of multiple scripts with a brief comment from HBO themselves.
“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.”
So there you have it. When the show ends with its eighth series in 2018, could we be about to see a prequel focusing on a young Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon? The war between the Child of the Forest and the First Men? An explanation of what the blazes happened to Benjen Stark on the other side of the Wall?
Game of Thrones season 7 premieres on HBO July 16, 2017.
