Brian Helgeland talks about his Game of Thrones spinoff project

Game of Thrones is currently filming for Season 8, and while we are still about a year away from the end, we are already feeling kinda sad about it. However, there’s a bright side to this: HBO has five prequel series undergoing development, and that means we might see more than just one follow-up to Game of Thrones. We hadn’t had any update on this of late, but in a recent interview, one of the writers, Brian Helgeland, recently discussed his project. Read on!

In a recent phone interview withIANS, Helgeland talked a bit about the Game of Thrones prequel series that he is working on, and how it is going to be tough to follow the greatest show to have graced the television medium, and how there are “a lot of ways to go wrong and only a few ways to get it right”:

“The show is very loved all around the world by everybody. Martin has created a world which everyone feels is real. They love to watch the characters, they feel they are very much alive and that is such an amazing thing to have been done. The chances of failing are much greater than the chances of succeeding.”

I do not think that it will fail. It will succeed, but it is a new version of it. Making it is very difficult. So, there is a lot of pressure on us to make it right and make it good.”

He was asked his approach to ensure he does a good job with his particular spin-off idea, to which he replied:

“..I think the intention is to stay geographically in that world but to tell a completely different story from a different point of view. So it is still Westeros

It might be a story which happened hundreds of years before the story that people are watching now, or could even be a story that happened 100 years after the story that they are watching now.

It is a different time period. It is still the same geography, but it is a different set of people.”

That sounds like a solid approach, especially since fans will return to watch it because of the familiarity. When asked whether any of the original cast members might make a cameo, Helgeland said that at least for his project, that will not be happening.

In either case, we shouldn’t expect the stars to return for the prequel shows. They will, after all be, set in a time where the events of Game of Thrones haven’t occurred yet. What do you guys think? What are your expectations from the prequel shows? Talk to us in the comments, down below!