George R.R. Martin spent his New Yr’s Eve updating followers on his animated tasks that will likely be set on the planet of A Music of Ice & Hearth. He additionally had one massive change to share relating to 9 Voyages, the Sport of Thrones spinoff concerning the nice voyages at sea made by Corlys Velaryon aboard the Sea Snake ship.
“Now we have moved 9 Voyages, our sequence concerning the legendary voyages of the Sea Snake, over from stay motion to animation,” Martin wrote on his private weblog. “A transfer I help absolutely. Budgetary constraints would possible have made a stay motion model prohibitively costly, what with half the present going down at sea, and the need of making a distinct port each week, from Driftmark to Lys to the Basilisk Isles to Volantis to Qarth to… nicely, on and on and on. There’s an entire world on the market. And we now have quite a bit higher probability of displaying all of it with animation. So we now have three animated tasks underway.”
Again in 2021, Deadline reported that HBO was seeking to develop its GOT universe by growing a trio of concepts for brand spanking new tasks. They included 9 Voyages aka Sea Snake, Flea Backside and 10,000 Ships. Of the three, the Sea Snake mission was extra absolutely fashioned, with a artistic staff on board to develop it. There was additionally discuss of growing an animated model of Sport of Thrones for HBO Max.
As for the standing of his different animated tasks at HBO, Martin wrote on his weblog that “none of them have been greenlit but, however I feel we’re getting near taking the following step with a few them. When this final spherical of improvement began a couple of years again, we had 4 concepts for animated reveals, with some nice abilities hooked up. Writers rooms and summits, define and scripts adopted in the end… however, alas, two of the unique tasks had been subsequently shelved.”
“These of you who’ve learn my reviews in years previous might recall that I favor to say “shelved” slightly than “killed,” as nothing is ever lifeless for good in Hollywood, and a mission placed on the shelf one yr could be taken off the shelf a couple of years later,” Martin continued. “I nonetheless have hopes of presenting the tales that we shelved in one other kind, maybe as graphic novels.”
“Will any of them make it to air? Occur? No method to know,” he wrote. “Nothing is definite in Hollywood.”
