HBO: ‘Game of Thrones’ Final Season Backlash Hasn’t Stopped Plans for ‘Amazing’ Prequel
It’s only been two months since Game of Thrones’ final episode aired, but fans won’t be starved for more content for too long.
According to HBO president of programming Casey Bloys, shooting on the pilot for the first planned Thrones spin-off—a prequel starring Naomi Watts—has wrapped in Belfast, and the footage is “amazing.” There still is no news on when—or, while it’s hard to imagine otherwise, if—the series will air. But backlash to the final season of Thrones hasn’t affected any plans for future Thrones content going forward. (Although he would not offer any updates on other rumored spin-offs.)
Details have been slowly trickling out about the spin-off, which was first described as being set 1,000 years before the Game of Thrones series, chronicling “the world’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour.” HBO’s official description added: “From the horrifying secrets of Westeros’s history to the true origin of the White Walkers, the mysteries of the East to the Starks of legend, only one thing is for sure: It’s not the story we think we know.”
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