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Netflix pays nearly half a billion dollars for Knives Out sequels
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Another Game of Thrones prequel is in development – on Broadway!
If you’re exited for the upcoming House of the Dragon series – as well as the THREE other Game of Thrones prequels being discussed at HBO – you’re going to love today’s news!
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that a Broadway play centered around the Tourney at Harrenhal is in the works! It is being produced in partnership with Kilburn Live by Simon Painter and Tim Lawson, with George RR Martin and playwright Duncan MacMillan writing the story, and Dominic Cooke directing. Expect shows in New York City, London’s West End, and in Australia beginning in 2023.
The official description reads, “The play will for the first time take audiences deeper behind the scenes of a landmark event that previously was shrouded in mystery. Featuring many of the most iconic and well-known characters from the series, the production will boast a story centered around love, vengeance, madness and the dangers of dealing in prophecy, in the process revealing secrets and lies that have only been hinted at until now.”
A statement by Martin adds, “The seeds of war are often planted in times of peace. Few in Westeros knew the carnage to come when highborn and smallfolk alike gathered at Harrenhal to watch the finest knights of the realm compete in a great tourney, during the Year of the False Spring. It is a tourney oft referred during HBO’s Game of Thrones, and in my novels, A Song of Ice & Fire…and now, at last, we can tell the whole story… on the stage.”
The Tourney at Harrenhal was an important moment in Westeros history – taking place roughly 16 years prior to the events of Game of Thrones – and setting the stage for Robert’s Rebellion and the downfall of the Targaryen dynasty. The scant information we’ve received about it so far has spawned speculation and numerous theories about what really happened there, and how it affected later events such as Lyanna Stark’s “abduction” by Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. It seems we will finally get some answers, and I, for one, couldn’t be more thrilled!
Check out the entire article here and let us know your thoughts in the comments!
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Monday, March 29, 2021
George R.R. Martin signs a five-year contract with HBO
George R.R. Martin is not leaving HBO any time soon.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Martin recently signed a new contract with HBO spanning five years and worth mid-eight figures. Wait to go, George.
It’s certainly a deal that makes since, given the sheer number of projects Martin is involved with at the network. In addition to House of the Dragon, there are five other series set in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire currently in development: 9 Voyages (about Corlys Velaryon), Flea Bottom, 10,000 Ships (about Princess Nymeria), Dunk and Egg and an animated show.
Additionally, Martin will serve as executive producer for Who Fears Death, an adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s africanfuturist (not afrofuturist) novel as well as the fantasy show, Roadmarks, based on Roger Zelazny’s novel.
All this is in addition to several television and film projects he’s got going on outside of HBO and, of course, the long, long awaited The Winds of Winter.
Listing all of these in one post, I understand the sense of exhaustion that was palpable in the last Not A Blog entry of his that I covered. I’m certainly excited for all the projects that Martin is attached to. I just hope he’s excited to be attached to them. Take care of yourself, George.
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As Many as Three New Game of Thrones Prequel Ideas in the Works at HBO
Miss Game of Thrones? Remember that show that everyone forgot how much they liked for nine years because they were so mad about the ending? Yeah, that one. Well anyway, apparently there are three MORE GOT prequel ideas in the works!!!! And who’s to say they’d even stop at three? Why not five? How about six? Surely, seven seems like the most fitting for the GOT universe…Don’t forget House of the Dragon is on the horizon as well, and is already shaping up to be epic as can be, given the cast seems to keep growing. So what more could we get from three new shows? Well…
One of them is said to be called 9 Voyages:
[9 Voyages] refers to the great voyages at sea made by Corlys Velaryon aboard the Sea Snake ship. Velaryon journeyed to places including Pentos, Dragonstone and around the bottom of Westeros as well as to Lys, Tyrosh and Myr. He reached the fabled lands of Yi Ti and Leng, whose wealth doubled that of the House Velaryon, and him and the Ice Wolf headed north searching for passage around the top of Westeros, only to find frozen seas and icebergs as big as mountains.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not great with Westerosi history. But if my recollection serves correctly, Corlys Velaryon is heavily intertwined with House Targaryen after they conquer Westeros, so perhaps they are already planning a spinoff of the first GOT spinoff?! What an inception of a world we are living in!
Next up is Flea Bottom:
[Flea Bottom] is the poorest slum district in King’s Landing, a maze-like warren of narrow streets and dark alleys filled with tanneries, brothels and ale houses. It is featured in the first four seasons of Game of Thrones, including when William’s Arya Stark takes refuge there after fleeing the Red Keep. Characters from Flea Bottom include Ser Davos Seaworth, played by Liam Cunningham, Gendry, the bastard son of King Robert Baratheon, played by Joe Dempsie, prostitute Armeca, played by Sahara Knite and Karl Tanner, a brother of the Night’s Watch played by Burn Gorman.
No word yet on whether any of the aforementioned characters would show up, but if they do, please expect the world to explode with excitement. Imagine the Internet if sweaty ironworks Gendry were to pop back up on your TV. The Internet would go mad I tells you – MAD.
Lastly is 10,000 Ships.
[10,000 Ships is] a reference to the journey made by warrior queen Princess Nymeria and the surviving members of the Rhoynars, who travelled from Essos to Dorne following their defeat by the Valyrian Freehold in the Second Spice War. This migration took place around 1,000 years before the events depicted in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Arya Stark, played by Maisie Williams, named her direwolf after Nymeria.
WOW OK so this would be really going back in time, far before Westeros was ever conquered by Targaryens. The possibilities are limitless here. I remember reading all about Princess Nymeria, but the details evade me, so I’ll leave the speculation to the comment boards. But holy cow am I excited. This one sounds the coolest to me, if I’m being frank. But who am I kidding? These all sounds great.
Reportedly The Sea Snake project already has Bruno Heller(!) attached, which is fantastic, as he created two of my favourite shows in Rome and Gotham. Hopefully we’ll hear more about showrunners for the other two soon, if they ever come to fruition.
So, to recap, we went from a failed pilot, to an immediately greenlit series, to a multitude of possible series, to A PLETHORA OF POTENTIAL SERIES. I can’t take all of the Game of Thrones madness, but hot damn am I excited. What do you all think?
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Olivia Cooke says House of the Dragon won’t include “egregious graphic violence towards women”
Olivia Cooke, who is set to play Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon, is well aware of Game of Thrones’ tumultuous legacy and, honestly … it’s a little nerve wracking.
In a recent interview with Telegraph (if you’re stuck at the paywall, the content of the interview has also been covered by IndieWire), Cooke addressed some of the controversies surrounding Game of Thrones, and stated that House of the Dragon will not include the sort of gratuitous violence against women that plagued her show’s predecessor.
“I wouldn’t feel comfortable in being a part of anything that has just egregious graphic violence towards women for no reason whatsoever, just because they want it to be tantalizing in a way that gets viewers,” she said. “I was lucky enough to read the [prequel] script before, and it has changed a lot from the first few seasons [of Game of Thrones]. I don’t think they’d be in their right minds to include any of that any more.”
That’s reassuring to hear. The highly divisive episode “Unbent Unbowed Unbroken” which featured Sansa’s disturbing wedding night to Ramsay Bolton aired six years ago this May (good lord), and, frankly, everything that needs to be said about it and the show’s overall handling of sexual violence has already been said several times over. However, since Fire and Blood‘s account of Targaryen history and the Dance of the Dragons in particular is hardly free of such content, I feel better knowing that the folks at HBO are more conscientious about how they approach such issues than, perhaps, they’ve been in the past.
Cooke actually hadn’t watched any of Game of Thrones before she was cast as Alicent Hightower but, cultural osmosis being what it is, she was nonetheless clued in on the main plot points of the show.
“I saw too many clips, just being alive at the time, so I knew what was going to happen,” she said, regarding the series finale. “What happened with Daenerys, I was ok with it, because I was expecting it, but it’s hard, you know… I’m a bit nervous about the new one. You’re never gonna please everyone, so I’ve just got to not listen to that stuff.”
It’s a little heartbreaking to hear just how intimidated actors feel to be in a Game of Thrones prequel due to the intensity of the fandom (Naomi Watts expressed similar feelings about Blood Moon). Mayhaps we can take a hint from these interviews and avoid toxic behaviors in the future.
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