A new Game Of Thrones prequel spin-off is in the works based on House Targaryen, according to reports.
While the only confirmed Game Of Thrones spin-off is a prequel provisionally titled Bloodmoon, another spin-off has seemingly been given the green-light based on creator George RR Martin’s companion book Fire & Blood.
According to Deadline, the Game Of Thrones author and Colony co-creator Ryan Condal have written the series for HBO, which is set 300 years before the events of the original series and charts the beginning of the end for House Targaryen.
Fire & Blood, released last year, recounts stories of the early Targaryen kings, like the first ruler of Westeros, Aegon the Conqueror, and Aegon the Dragonbane – who are both ancestors to Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington).
It was previously announced five spin-off shows were in the works, with this new show believed to be a revamped form of one of the original scripts commissioned by HBO.
George RR Martin has previously hinted in his blog a show based on the book was in the pipeline, describing how ‘two other shows remain in the script stage, but are edging closer’.
The only other Game Of Thrones spin-off in development wrapped filming on the pilot last month, which is set thousands of years before events in the main show.
An official synopsis reads: ‘Taking place thousands of years before the events of Game Of Thrones, the series chronicles the world’s descent from the golden Age Of Heroes into its darkest hour.
‘And only one thing is for sure: from the horrifying secrets of Westeros’s history to the true origin of the White Walkers, the mysteries of the East to the Starks of legend… it’s not the story we think we know.’
Naomi Watts leads the cast in the spin-off, alongside John Simm, Miranda Richardson, Josh Whitehouse and Naomi Ackie.
Game Of Thrones: Bloodmoon is expected to be released in 2020.
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