A Game of Thrones prequel is in the works, and the cast has been announced. This is not a drill.
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Ahead of the release of season eight, we’ve got everything you need to know about this new prequel.
It’ll be Westeros, but not as we know it.
Who’ll be in the cast?
In a recent press release HBO have revealed that the prequel cast will consist of plenty of big names.
Oscar-nominated Naomi Watts (21 Grams) will be playing ‘a charismatic socialite hiding a dark secret’.
She’ll be joined by the likes of Jamie Campbell Bower, who is known for his roles in Sweeney Todd and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, as well as Naomi Ackie from Lady Macbeth, and Georgie Henley who starred in The Chronicles of Narnia films
Humans actor Ivanno Jeremiah will also feature as well as Josh Whitehouse who has made several appearances in BBC drama Poldark.
What will the GOT prequel be about?
According to NME, the Game of Thrones prequel is not going to be based on a book, but rather on a story concocted by George R. R. Martin and the prequels showrunner, Jane Goldman, whose previous works include adapting Stardust and The Limehouse Golem for the screen.
The story takes place thousands of years before the what we see in GOT. As HBO puts it, it will follow ‘the world’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour.’
Back when the news broke that HBO was planning four GOT spinoffs, Martin addressed calls from fans for them to be about Robert’s Rebellion and Dunk & Egg, two characters from 90 years before the events of GOT.
He wrote in his blog that he would like to write seven or eight more tales of Dunk & Egg before a TV show is made about them, adding ‘I don’t want to repeat what happened with Game of Thrones itself, where the show gets ahead of the books’
He went on to say,’We’re not doing Robert’s Rebellion either. I know thousands of you want that, I know there’s a petition… but by the time I finish writing A Song of Ice & Fire, you will know every important thing that happened in Robert’s Rebellion.
‘There would be no surprises or revelations left in such a show, just the acting out of conflicts whose resolutions you already know.
‘That’s not a story I want to tell just now; it would feel too much like a twice-told tale.’
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