All the New Details About the First ‘Game of Thrones' Spin-Off
We may still be a year away from the last season of Game of Thrones, but at least we know it won’t be totally over even after the final episode airs (praise be to the old gods and the new).
The first of four or five (!!) GoT spin-off shows centered around George R. R. Martin’s fantasy world of dragons and White Walkers has been ordered to pilot, according to BBC, and we finally have more details about what this prequel will include.
The show, which will take place 10,000 years before A Song of Ice and Fire (aka Dany and Jon and the rest of what we know of the current Game of Thrones), will be written by Jane Goldman (X-Men: First Class, Kingsman: The Secret Service) and will follow “the world’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour,” according to a statement from HBO. “From the horrifying secrets of Westeros’ 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.”
Ooh, so mysterious. And, of course, Game of Thrones fans now have even more fodder for their (wild)fire, with GoT expert Emergency Awesome speculating that we’ll be able to put a face to the names of legends like Bran the Builder (who founded House Stark and built the Wall…NBD), Lann the Clever (who founded House Lannister) and the Grey King (who founded House Greyjoy). Viewers could also get glimpses of “ice spiders as big as hounds” (and we thought an ice dragon was terrifying…), the rise of the Valyrian Freehold, aka the age of dragonlords and the origins of the Night King as a (possible) member of House Stark at Winterfell before the children of the forest turned him into the scary blue-eyed ice god.
If the pilot gets the green light from HBO, it won’t premiere until after season eight is over, probably well into 2020.
And now, we wait (while rewatching all seven seasons, of course)…