TV PILOT SCRIPTS WANTED SERIES
TV PILOT SCRIPTS WANTED TV

I campaigned for 10 seasons, and we could have gone to 12. Well, seven became eight because the eighth season is really the second half of the seventh season - it’s kind of one long season.īut I never felt that seven or eight seasons was enough. One of the things in the later seasons of the show was: How many seasons was it going to be? And for years were saying they wanted to wrap it up in seven seasons. It’s been just over three years since Game of Thrones ended in a way that disappointed many fans. The conclusion of Game of Thrones disappointed many fans, but 'my ending will be very different,' Martin says. House of the Dragon is more like historical fiction with some dragons thrown in. But I’m also following them to some extent. Now, yes, it is true that in a sense, I’m deconstructing those tropes, those myths, the things that were hallmarks. Game of Thrones and my book version of it, A Song of Ice and Fire, is, in some ways, a classic high fantasy in the mode of Tolkien and many, many writers who followed. House of the Dragon has thematic overlaps with Game of Thrones - family rivalry, the battle for the throne. It had dragons - a lot of dragons - and battles and betrayals. It had all of the intrigue around the Iron Throne. There was a lot of material already written on it, and it had everything that I thought we needed for a successful successor show. Two writers worked on the development of your Targaryen story and it didn’t go anywhere.

These are edited excerpts from our conversation.

TV PILOT SCRIPTS WANTED TV

In a conversation late last month, Martin, the man who over the past three decades meticulously constructed the Thrones universe in his various books, discussed why he felt strongly about this idea his ambitions for future spin-offs and how his work-in-progress books will diverge from the controversial ending of Game of Thrones, the TV series. A middling performance (or worse) will prompt broader questions about whether millions of viewers are craving more Thrones series. A hit could prove the viability of the Thrones Cinematic Universe. House of the Dragon, the first Thrones spin-off series, premiered in the US on Sunday night (Sky, Monday, 9pm), and the stakes were high for HBO. Martin is the creator of the show along with Ryan Condal.

TV PILOT SCRIPTS WANTED SERIES

House of the Dragon was ordered straight to series in late 2019. Then, after HBO shot - and cancelled - a separate Thrones prequel pilot, Martin’s persistence prevailed. A pair of writers assigned to work on the Targaryen concept came and went, but Martin would not give it up. There was some reluctance within HBO’s ranks about creating a series that, like the original, was about a battle for the Iron Throne. In the five years that HBO programming executives have been carefully considering a worthy successor to Game of Thrones, there was one idea that George RR Martin kept pushing: his rise-and-fall tale of the dragon-riding Targaryen family, set nearly 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones.

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