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The pool of potential Game of Thrones prequels has expanded, and the latest concept will come from core members of the Westeros brain trust.
As HBO’s most successful show ever has entered its homestretch, the network has begun developing prequels set in other parts of the vast universe of George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire novels, which are the basis for Game of Thrones. In May, HBO announced that writers were working on four pilot scripts, all or none of which could eventually turn into series.
This week details emerged about a fifth concept, which is being developed by Martin and Bryan Cogman, a co-executive producer for Game of Thrones, Martin confirmed on his blog Wednesday.
“Truth be told, we’ve had five scripts in various stages of development for months,” he wrote. “But now at last all the deals are signed.”
Entertainment Weekly broke the news about Cogman, who has been with Game of Thrones since its first season. He joined the production as an assistant to David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the creators of the show, before moving up to become one of the series’s most prolific writers. He has written more episodes than anyone aside from Benioff and Weiss. He also wrote a companion book to the early seasons of Game of Thrones.
“He has also been GOT’s ‘Keeper of the Lore,’ the guy who knew the canon better than anyone (except me, though sometimes I am not even sure about that),” Martin wrote.
No details have been released about the content of the new Game of Thrones shows, which would be set before the current series and thus include none of the current cast. Benioff and Weiss have said they will not be involved in any of the series, though they, like Martin, will be executive producers.
HBO hasn’t committed to airing any Thrones successor but it’s hard to believe that the network wouldn’t extend such a lucrative global phenomenon, especially now that the prequel pool includes a Thrones veteran like Cogman as well as Martin, the Grand Maester of them all.
The final season of Game of Thrones will air in 2018 or perhaps even 2019, and any future series would arrive at least a year after that, Casey Bloys, HBO’s programming president, has said. On Thursday, HBO confirmed Cogman’s project but offered no further information about the prequels, other than to reiterate that any series wouldn’t be produced until after Game of Thrones is over.
“You should not expect to see all five shows, though, at least not immediately,” Martin wrote on his blog. “But we could possibly see two or even three make it to the pilot stage, with one series emerging on air in 2019 or 2020 … and the others maybe later, if they come out as well as we all hope.”
The other writers who have been tapped to develop concepts are: Max Borenstein, Jane Goldman, Brian Helgeland and Carly Wray. None of them have written for Thrones, though Martin is also working on scripts with Goldman and Wray, as well as co-creating Cogman’s adaptation.
In addition to working on three of the five prequel concepts, the author is also helping to develop Nnedi Okorafor’s Afrofuturist novel Who Fears Death into a series for HBO.
In other words, what is good news for Martin’s TV fans might be less so for his readers, who have been waiting for the next Ice and Fire novel since 2011. In July, Martin wrote “I am still months away” from completing that book, The Winds of Winter.
“How many? Good question,” he wrote. “I still have good days and bad days, and that’s all I care to say.”