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HBO wants to do 4 Game of Thrones spinoffs


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Can't a story just end anymore? :|

 

http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/04/game-of-thrones-prequels-spinoffs/

 

 

HBO is doubling down — no, quadrupling down — on its epic quest to replace Game of Thrones.

The pay TV network is determined to find a way to continue the most popular series in the company’s history and has taken the highly unusual step of developing four different ideas from different writers. The move represents a potentially massive expansion of the popular fantasy universe created by author George R.R. Martin. If greenlit, the eventual show or shows would also mark the first time HBO has ever made a follow-up series to one of its hits.
Most of the assigned writers have experience writing major theatrical films, and Martin is personally involved in two of the projects. The show ideas are from Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island, Fox’s Minority Report); Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men: First Class) along with Martin; Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale, L.A. Confidential); and Carly Wray (Mad Men) with Martin.
HBO isn’t revealing any story details at this time other than that the shows “explore different time periods of George R. R. Martin’s vast and rich universe.”

 

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Yeah I think it's more likely rather than 4 separate spinoff shows they're developing 4 separate stories as part of an anthology or whatever, like American Horror Story.

 

Dunc and Egg

Robert's Rebellion (I also saw suggested that the 4 shows might all be Robert's Rebellion from the perspective of Stark, Lannister, Baratheon, and Targaryen, which would be interesting)

Dance of the Dragons

Aegon's Conquest

 

Seem to be the most likely candidates because of either available backstory or familiarity of characters.

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The last season of GOT I completed watching was Season 5. I've had Season 6 available to me since it was released on DVD, but I just haven't had any interest in watching it, or re-watching previous seasons. I am completely indifferent to season 7's premier in a couple months.

 

It's not that I hate the show. I loved it when it first aired, but I just don't have any interest or energy to care how it ends, let alone any desire to see spin offs.

 

Sometimes a story goes on so long, with too many twists and turns, that some people lose interest. At least that is the case for me with GOT.

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The last season of GOT I completed watching was Season 5. I've had Season 6 available to me since it was released on DVD, but I just haven't had any interest in watching it, or re-watching previous seasons. I am completely indifferent to season 7's premier in a couple months.

 

It's not that I hate the show. I loved it when it first aired, but I just don't have any interest or energy to care how it ends, let alone any desire to see spin offs.

 

Sometimes a story goes on so long, with too many twists and turns, that some people lose interest. At least that is the case for me with GOT.

I've never had any interest in GoT, but this is my exact feeling on Walking Dead, so I know how you feel.

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Yeah definitely give season six a run. Personally I think it's the best season of the series so far and I was about to give up on it after season five. While it has almost began to piss fart around for the last two seasons, six starts to get into the meat of the story and some story decisions in Season five make a bit more sense.

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Well, maybe I will check out Season 6, but how far into it does it take to really pick up? I consider more than 2 episodes too long to wait.

 

The last season of GOT I completed watching was Season 5. I've had Season 6 available to me since it was released on DVD, but I just haven't had any interest in watching it, or re-watching previous seasons. I am completely indifferent to season 7's premier in a couple months.

It's not that I hate the show. I loved it when it first aired, but I just don't have any interest or energy to care how it ends, let alone any desire to see spin offs.

Sometimes a story goes on so long, with too many twists and turns, that some people lose interest. At least that is the case for me with GOT.


I've never had any interest in GoT, but this is my exact feeling on Walking Dead, so I know how you feel.

 

Don't even get me started on TWD. I'm done with that pointless gore-porn fest.

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I'd rate the seasons something like

 

Season 1: 8

Season 2: 8.5

Season 3: 9.5

Season 4: 9.5

Season 5: 6.5

Season 6: 8.5

 

6 had some extremely really great moments/episodes/scenes, but fell flat a lot of times for me as an elitist book-reader. It was universally well received however.

 

I expect 7 and 8, even if they're mediocre or bad, to still be mostly enjoyable to watch because they pretty much have to happen at a breakneck pace and will serve to wrap the story up.

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From GRRM:

 

 

 

We're not doing Dunk & Egg. Eventually, sure, I'd love that, and so would many of you. But I've only written and published three novellas to date, and there are at least seven or eight or ten more I want to write. We all know how slow I am, and how fast a television show can move. I don't want to repeat what happened with GAME OF THRONES itself, where the show gets ahead of the books. When the day comes that I've finished telling all my tales of Dunk & Egg, then we'll do a tv show about them... but that day is still a long ways off.

We're not doing Robert's Rebellion either. I know thousands of you want that, I know there's a petition... but by the time I finish writing A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, you will know every important thing that happened in Robert's Rebellion. There would be no surprises or revelations left in such a show, just the acting out of conflicts whose resolutions you already know. That's not a story I want to tell just now; it would feel too much like a twice-told tale.
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