{"id":4793,"date":"2018-06-11T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T09:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2018-06-11T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T17:22:52","slug":"hbo-greenlights-goldman-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2018\/06\/11\/hbo-greenlights-goldman-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Greenlights Goldman Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot happening these days, so much that some days it feels as if I cannot even keep up with my own life.\u00a0\u00a0 So let me beg your indulgence for being late to the party with this news — but, yes, it is true, after more than a year of development, HBO has greenlit the first of the GAME OF THRONES successor shows that we’ve been working on, scripted by the amazing Jane Goldman.<\/p>\n

Everybody else has already broken the news, so there’s no sense in me just rehashing.\u00a0 You can read all about here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/40289-hbo-greenlights-game-of-thrones-prequel-series-report.html<\/a><\/p>\n

or here<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/video\/hbo-moves-forward-pilot-order-untitled-game-thrones-prequel-thr-news-1118608<\/a><\/p>\n

or in half a hundred other places.\u00a0\u00a0 Pick the news outlet you like best,<\/p>\n

To clarify, what we have here is a pilot order, not as yet a series order.\u00a0\u00a0 Though of course we are all hoping that will follow.<\/p>\n

Yes, this is a prequel, not a sequel.\u00a0\u00a0 None of the characters or actors from GAME OF THRONES will appear in the new show.\u00a0\u00a0 All of the successor shows we’ve been developing have been prequels, as I have mentioned before.\u00a0\u00a0 This one really puts the PRE in prequel, since it is set not ninety years before GAME OF THRONES (like Dunk & Egg), or a few hundred years, but rather ten thousand years<\/em> (well, assuming the oral histories of the First Men are accurate, but there are maesters at the Citadel who insist it has only been half that long).\u00a0\u00a0 We’re very early in the process, of course, with the pilot order just in, so we don’t have a director yet, or a cast, or a location, or even a title.\u00a0\u00a0 (My vote would be THE LONG NIGHT, which says it all, but I’d be surprised if that’s where we end up.\u00a0 More likely HBO will want to work the phrase “game of thrones” in there somewhere.\u00a0 We’ll know sooner or later).<\/p>\n

We do have a showrunner: Jane Goldman, who penned the pilot script.<\/p>\n

All of the news stories about the pilot being greenlit are slapping my own picture up there next to Jane’s, which is very flattering but also a little misleading Remember, they also slapped my picture up on the news stories about the TV development of Nnedi Okarafor’s WHO FEARS DEATH, when they should have been using Nnedi’s picture. I’ve consulted with all of the writers on all of the successor shows, and several of them have visited me in Santa Fe for long days of discussion, and we’ve gone back and forth in email, text, and telephone, so I have definitely been involved… but really, the accolades here should go to Jane.\u00a0\u00a0 She has been an absolute thrill to work with… and my god, what a talent.<\/p>\n

Those of you who are fans of not just GAME OF THRONES, but of television, film, and sf and fantasy in the broader sense are already well familiar with her work, whether you know it or not.\u00a0\u00a0 She’s wrote the KINGSMEN movies, scripted one X-MEN film and did the story for another, did the screenplay for the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s STARDUST, and for the superhero satire KICKASS as well.\u00a0\u00a0 Among lots of other credits.\u00a0 Oh, and she’s written the script for Disney’s forthcoming live action version of THE LITTLE MERMAID too.\u00a0\u00a0 Can’t wait for that one.<\/p>\n

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I will try to keep you all informed as work progresses on the new show (whatever we end up calling it)… though, given the amount of stuff I am trying to juggle right now, news will probably break on a dozen other places before I get around to it, as happened here.<\/p>\n

As for the other successor shows… if you have been following along, you know that we started with four, and eventually went to five.\u00a0\u00a0 One of those has been shelved, I am given to understand, and of course Jane’s pilot is now moving to film.\u00a0\u00a0 But that does not mean the others are dead.\u00a0\u00a0 Three more GAME OF THRONES prequels, set in different periods and featuring different characters and storylines, remain in active development.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything I am told indicates that we could film at least one more pilot, and maybe more than one, in the years to come.\u00a0\u00a0 We do have an entire world and tens of thousands of years of history to play with, after all.\u00a0\u00a0 But this is television, so nothing is certain.<\/p>\n

(Oh, and WHO FEARS DEATH is moving along well too, and I am very excited about that one as well.\u00a0 Selwyn Seyfu Hinds did a terrific job with his first draft of the pilot, based on Nnedi’s novel).<\/p>\n

(And yes, before you ask, work on WINDS OF WINTER continues, and remains my top priority.\u00a0\u00a0 It is ridiculous to think otherwise.\u00a0\u00a0 If I wasn’t busy with WINDS, don’t you think I’d be scripting one or more of these pilots myself?\u00a0 It’s not as if I’ve never written for TV… )<\/p>\n

So cross your fingers and your toes, fantasy fans.\u00a0\u00a0 Some good stuff is coming.\u00a0\u00a0 And let’s have a round of applause for Jane Goldman.<\/p>\n

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