HBO orders Sport of Thrones prequel in regards to the Targaryens

HBO is reportedly near green-lighting a Sport of Thrones prequel sequence based mostly on the historical past of the Targaryens.

In keeping with EW, the sequence will particularly chronicle the Dance of the Dragons, a.ok.a. the civil warfare between Rhaenyra and Aegon Targaryen for management over the Seven Kingdoms. The warfare occurred roughly 200 years earlier than the occasions depicted in Sport of Thrones.

The sequence’ plot will pull from Fireplace and Blood, George R.R. Martin’s not too long ago revealed e book in regards to the historical past of the Targaryen home. Ryan Condal is claimed to be writing the pilot episode, and Martin is on board as an government producer.

The as-yet-untitled sequence marks the second Sport of Thrones prequel ordered by HBO. Already in improvement is a prequel sequence set 5,000 years previously, created by Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts, Naomi Ackie, and Jamie Campbell Bower, amongst others.

When HBO first started mapping out its post-Sport of Thrones plans, the community employed as many as 5 completely different writers to every develop a unique spin-off that might “discover completely different time durations of George R. R. Martin’s huge and wealthy universe.” In a weblog previous earlier this 12 months, Martin revealed that two of these initiatives have been “nonetheless transferring ahead properly” along with Goldman’s sequence.

Presumambly, Fireplace and Blood is the a type of sequence; there’s no phrase on what the second undertaking might entail or if it’s even nonetheless in improvement. HBO head Casey Bloys beforehand stated there was no assure the assorted GOT offshoots would all make it to air. “The concept is to not do 4 exhibits [or five]. The bar set by [David Benioff and DB Weiss] is so excessive that my hope is to get one present that lives as much as it.”