#Game of thrones spin off series#
Martin remains enamored with the Targaryens, and in a May blog post wrote about the upcoming series in development: “What are they about? I cannot say. Martin released the 800-page companion book Fire & Blood, which covers Targaryen history going back to the conquest of Westeros, 300 years before the events of the television series.
The Fire & Blood adaptation is happening, and it will be called House of the Dragon. So let’s put on our Samwell hats and lay out everything we know about the post– Game of Thrones–iverse so far. So take comfort in knowing that at least one new series is coming - even though HBO nixed several others - and regardless of whether or not GOT stuck the landing (it didn’t), we don’t have to say good-bye to George R.R.
The flip side of all this talk of fragmentation, though, is that we’re still very much in an age of serialization and franchise juggernauts, so it made absolute sense when HBO announced that multiple spinoffs would vie to fill the Wun Wun–size hole in our hearts after Game of Thrones ended. In the weeks leading up to the finale there was much wringing of hands over how it marked the end of the monoculture, the final iteration of a time when we all, I don’t know, gathered around in our sunken living rooms with our TV dinners to watch M*A*S*H, or something.
In 2019 we reached the end of Game of Thrones, finishing an eight-year saga spanning seven kingdoms, three dragons (that we know of), and too many stabbings and beheadings to count. The Fire & Blood adaptation House of the Dragon has been ordered to series and will likely be the first post- GOT series out of the gate.