one of the least interesting characters in the series. should have been grampa lanister spinoff. i thought they making a prequel series
nobody else find it strange they are trying to milk the Game of thrones teat when the hype is at an all time low?
Has potential. I like how the podcast people are speculating that HBO is going to grow the GOT IP like Disney has with Star Wars and Marvel. The GOT world is super rich and lots of stuff is still undiscovered.
They could have just invested all this time and money into finishing the actual series unrushed and unshitty.
Exactly. 2-3 more seasons would have allowed them to stick the landing (though the dialogue also took a nosedive once they passed GRRM’s stuff).
Thanks to @GIGO for pointing the thread out to me. Unlike some, I hope this gets made. While I hated the last couple of seasons, and particularly the horrific ending, as much as anyone here, I'm more than willing to see where this might take Jon Snow. I'll add that Martin writes slower than rush hour traffic on I-35 thru Downtown Austin! I parked what's below in the original GOT million page thread and am now putting it in the correct parking spot, even if the thread's title is misspelled. (no H in Jon, OP!) Some news! At least a bit. This is from George Martin's blog. If posted elsewhere, my apologies. I'm very interested in this and hope Snow comes about. His fate was left wide open, in my opinion, at least in Game of Thrones. SNOW… and Other Stuff JUNE 23, 2022 These Not A Blog updates all seem to be turning into giant grab bags. Things pile up, and I am way too busy to blog more often, so I find myself with a lot to cover every time I have a spare moment. I don’t really have a spare moment today, truth be told, but I am making one, since the news has broken about the Jon Snow development and I am being deluged with requests for comment. So…. Yes, there is a Jon Snow show in development. The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER story was largely correct. And I would expect no less from James Hibberd. I have dealt with a lot of reporters over the past few years, and Hibberd is one of the very best, an actual journalist who does all the things journalists are supposed to do (getting the facts right, talking to sources, respecting requests for “background only” and “off the record,” etc) that most of the clickbait sites never bother with. Our working title for the show is SNOW. There are four live-action successor shows in development at HBO. Word got out about three of them some time ago. TEN THOUSAND SHIPS, the Nymeria show, helmed by Amanda Segel. SEA SNAKE, aka NINE VOYAGES, with Bruno Heller. And the Dunk & Egg show, THE HEDGE KNIGHT or KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS, with Steve Conrad writing. I think some of these were officially announced; in other cases, news leaked out. (These things always seem to leak. There are so many people involved, writers, producers, agents, and everyone has assistants, and there is always the guy who runs the xerox machine, and reporters have sources, and people gossip, so… ) SNOW has been in development almost as long as the other three, but for whatever reason it was never announced and it never leaked… until now. But, yes, it is true. This was not an official announcement from HBO, so it seems there was another leak. I did a long interview with James Hibberd last week, for the big HOUSE OF THE DRAGON story that HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is planning. At the end of the call, he asked a few questions about the spinoffs. “Is it possible one of the spinoffs is a sequel rather than a prequel?” he asked. I answered “No comment.” Then he asked “Is it possible a member of the original cast is attached?” And again I answered “No comment.” And that was all. But plainly he found someone more forthcoming than me. Who? I don’t know, and suspect I never will. A good journalist protects his sources. There’s not much more I can tell you, not until HBO gives me a green light. It seems as though Emilia Clarke has already mentioned that SNOW was Kit’s idea in a recent interview. So that part is out. Yes, it was Kit Harrington who brought the idea to us. I cannot tell you the names of the writers/ showrunners, since that has not been cleared for release yet… but Kit brought them in too, his own team, and they are terrific. Various rumors are floating around about my involvement, or lack of same. I am involved, just as I am with THE HEDGE KNIGHT and THE SEA SNAKE and TEN THOUSAND SHIPS, and all the animated shows. Kit’s team have visited me here in Santa Fe and worked with me and my own team of brilliant, talented writer/ consultants to hammer out the show. All four of these successor shows are still in the script stage. Outlines and treatments have been written and approved, scripts have been written, notes have been given, second and third drafts have been written. So far, that’s all. This is the way television works. Please note: nothing has been green lit yet, and there is no guarantee when or if it will be… on any of these shows. The likelihood of all four series getting on the air… well, I’d love it, but that’s not the way it works, usually. There are all sorts of reasons pilots never get picked up to series, all sorts of reasons scripts never got shot as pilots, all sorts of reasons great treatments never get sent to script. That’s the way the business works. I learned that a long time ago, during my first go-round in television. BLACK CLUSTER. STARPORT. THE SURVIVORS. DOORWAYS. FADEOUT. Those were just a few of my stillborn children from those years. I mourn them still. This is a new day, though, so… here is hoping one or two or three or all four of the GOT spinoffs make it to air. That’s all I can tell you about SNOW just now. If HBO says I can tell you more, I will… https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2022/06/23/snow-and-other-stuff/
