HBO announced a prequel to "Game of Thrones"

HBO officially announced series, a prequel to the "Game of Thrones", named House of the Dragon ( «House of the Dragon"). He tells the story of House Targaryen dynasty. This is the film adaptation of the book "fire and blood" rumors of which had already appeared.

HBO has ordered ten episodes of the series. The plot will fall events that took place 300 years before the beginning of the "Game of Thrones." Several episodes, including the pilot series, remove Miguel Sapochnik, who worked on the fifth season of the original series.

At the same time it became it is knownThat HBO refused to further work on the series "Game of Thrones: The Long Night". His shooting the pilot episode was completed in Northern Ireland more this summer, and the premiere is expected in 2020. The Verge suggestsThat started to get extremely unfortunate. And it sounds quite realistic, if you know the history of "Game of Thrones": the first version of its pilot went so badly that the channel had to retake 90% of the material.

Given that HBO in at least 5 projects in the world, "Game of Thrones", the producers could decide that the doubling of the budget on a pilot of one of them and the changes in the schedule is just not worth it. "Long Night" was to be the first prequel "The game of thrones"Showrunner by Jane Goldman with Naomi Watts in the lead role. Its action takes place in a few thousand years before the main show. In the center of the plot it was to be a "moment of transition from the golden era of the heroes to the darkest era in the history of Westeros."

As for the other projects in the world, "Game of Thrones", the information about them are scarce. In May 2019, George RR Martin said that the three ideas "approach to implementation." One of them probably has canceled "The Long Night", so that the remaining two may even come out ahead of schedule. With regard to this, and announced the "House of the Dragon."