Game of Thrones Sequel Is Coming, Eventually

Key Highlights

• Future Plans: HBO is developing “five or six” new spinoff projects for the Game of Thrones franchise.
• Sequel Focus: Some of these projects will be sequels that continue the stories of Arya and Jon.
• Expanded Universe: Other spinoffs include those focused on Aegon the Conqueror and Queen Nymeria.
• Ongoing Development: There is potential for new announcements regarding these series in the near future.

For the past few years, HBO has kept Game of Thrones going by looking back further in its history. While that’s not changing for the rest of the 2020s, creator George R.R. Martin revealed the TV franchise knows it has to move forward, and indeed plans to do just that.

At a recent event in Iceland attended by Los Siete Reinos, the author revealed some of the “five or six” other spinoff projects in the works he’s involved in. Of those, “some” are sequels that’ll pick up where the original series left off back in 2019. HBO certainly seemed poised to continue the stories of Arya and Jon specifically, and he even had a spinoff announced. Those plans eventually fell through, while Martin teased last year that something could be percolating with Arya’s actor, Maisie Williams.

Beyond the just-renewed House of the Dragon and A Knight of Seven Kingdoms, Martin has previously talked up spinoffs for Aegon the Conqueror, the animated Nine Voyages focused on Corlys Velaryon, and a prequel focused on Queen Nymeria. (There might even be a movie too, remember?) A lot of Thrones, the apparent move on HBO’s end being to fill fans with enough prequels to soften them up for whatever’s next in Westeros. Has everyone moved on from hating the ending to where that’s possible? We’ll find out if such a follow-up ever actually gets announced, much less made.

[via IGN]

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