For these in want of a refresher, HBO initially introduced many Sport of Thrones spinoffs and has since added extra to the pile. Whereas Home of the Dragon was the primary to make it to the air, there are nonetheless some others on the docket. Of these beforehand introduced, one appears fairly near getting picked up: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, which will likely be based mostly on the primary installment of Martin’s “Dunk & Egg” prequel novellas. Different titles introduced (or teased by Martin in different weblog posts) embrace: 10,000 Ships (about Rhoynish Queen Nymeria), 9 Voyages (about Corlys Velaryon a.ok.a. the Sea Snake), a Jon Snow spinoff, one thing concerning the frequent people in Flea Backside, and an untitled animated undertaking (probably about Yi Ti, the Golden Empire in Essos).
Apparently, none of those had been initially pitched as animated initiatives, other than the aforementioned untitled one. However in keeping with Martin, at the least 4 animated initiatives had been in growth at one level earlier than being narrowed down to 2. And truly, go forward and make that three as a result of afterward within the weblog put up Martin clarifies that the Sea Snake collection has now been switched to animation as effectively. Martin says:
Budgetary constraints would seemingly have made a reside 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… effectively, on and on and on. There’s an entire world on the market. And we’ve got rather a lot higher likelihood of exhibiting all of it with animation. So we now have three animated initiatives underway.
If HBO got here to the conclusion that budgetary restraints would require a transfer to animation for the Sea Snake collection, then wouldn’t they arrive to an analogous scenario for a lot of the different prequels in growth? We might wager that they’ve. Except for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and the Jon Snow collection that Equipment Harrington absolutely desires to return for, it appears totally potential that each different Thrones prequel to see the sunshine of day will achieve this in animated trend.
