TV: Game of Thrones prequel pilot ordered

[The Crypto Guy]

Age of Heros stuff could be awesome. It is a lot more high fantasy potentially then the current show.

Not sure they want to go that direction though.

 

[Siamese Dream]

Not sure they want to go that direction though.

Nah I dunno about that, a lot of Series 7 criticisms of things that didn't make sense were easily batted away with "hurr dee durr this is show wiv draguns" explanations

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

 

[No More Subban]

Damn. Naomi Watts' in it.

You know there's going to be lots of nudity on this one.. lol

 

[LightningStrikes]

HBO has cast two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts in the lead role of the unnamed Game of Thrones prequel set thousands of years before the present Game of Thrones during the "Age of Heroes."

Watts will play a socialite with a dark secret, but so far that is all that is known about her character.

Watts will be joined by Josh Whitehouse, best known for playing Hugh Armitage in Poldark. It's not currently known what type of character Whitehouse will be playing [...]

Of the five prequels pitched to HBO, this is the only one to move forward into production. No release date has been given, but the show is expected to air sometime in 2020.

Naomi Watts to star in 'Game of Thrones' prequel

 

[Say Hey Kid]

I was going to be in no matter what. This sounds like just the right way to go about it. Go way way back so nothing is connected to any character in Game of Thrones except for the legends and history they speak of. If they do it right, which I expect them to, it's going to be awesome.

This is always the smart way if you're going to do a prequel, set it back far enough that you can create your story however you want without having to force your characters and story into little boxes just to line up with established canon.

Agreed with both. This and the fact that there was nowhere to go is why they should have done this with SW EPs 7-9. I have no problem with the one shots.

 

[Player big P]

Pretty sure Jamie Campbell Bower played Waymar Royce in the original GoT pilot

 

[Osprey]

This is always the smart way if you're going to do a prequel, set it back far enough that you can create your story however you want without having to force your characters and story into little boxes just to line up with established canon.

Are you suggesting that it's not smart to set a prequel only, say, a decade in the past, despite the great opportunity that it allows for recycling familiar elements and offering fan service? Wouldn't you like to see the new characters have run-ins with younger versions of your favorite GoT characters and, together, save the kingdom from a threat that no one will ever speak of only a generation later? Such a prequel series would almost write itself. If I'm Alex Kurtzman, I'm thinking that HBO is foolishly passing up a great opportunity and making more work for themselves than they need to.

 

[NyQuil]

Are you suggesting that it's not smart to set a prequel only, say, a decade in the past, despite the great opportunity that it allows for recycling familiar elements and offering fan service? Wouldn't you like to see the new characters have run-ins with younger versions of your favorite GoT characters and, together, save the kingdom from a threat that no one would ever speak of only a generation later? Such a prequel series would almost write itself. If I'm Alex Kurtzman, I'm thinking that HBO is foolishly passing up a great opportunity and making more work for themselves than they need to.

Savage.

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

Are you suggesting that it's not smart to set a prequel only, say, a decade in the past, despite the great opportunity that it allows for recycling familiar elements and offering fan service? Wouldn't you like to see the new characters have run-ins with younger versions of your favorite GoT characters and, together, save the kingdom from a threat that no one would ever speak of only a generation later? Such a prequel series would almost write itself. If I'm Alex Kurtzman, I'm thinking that HBO is foolishly passing up a great opportunity and making more work for themselves than they need to.

Passing up might be only temporary. If it was me, and I have mentioned it before in this regard, I would wait awhile to do Roberts Rebellion, so the faces that are connected to the characters fade a bit so the new actors not looking right isnt as....stark

 

[ecemleafs]

so GRRM revealed some info about this show recently.

"The pilot, set 5,000 years before the events depicted in the recently concluded Game of Thrones, is now filming in Northern Ireland. On the title, Martin noted that The Long Night or some variation of that looks likely: “I heard a suggestion that it could be called The Longest Night, which is a variant I wouldn’t mind. That would be pretty good.”

Some things will have a ring of familiarity for fans of the original series, Martin said: “The Starks will definitely be there. Obviously the White Walkers are here — or as they’re called in my books, The Others — and that will be an aspect of it. There are things like direwolves and mammoths.”

Fans won’t see the Lannisters in the new series, at least not immediately.
“The Lannisters aren’t there yet, but Casterly Rock is certainly there; it’s like the Rock of Gibraltar,” Martin said. “It’s actually occupied by the Casterlys — for whom it’s still named after in the time of Game of Thrones.”

Martin said the series will center on an unconstructed era of a divided land: “We talk about the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros; there were Seven Kingdoms at the time of Aegon’s Conquest. But if you go back further then there are nine kingdoms, and 12 kingdoms, and eventually you get back to where there are a hundred kingdoms — petty kingdoms — and that’s the era we’re talking about here.”

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Are you suggesting that it's not smart to set a prequel only, say, a decade in the past, despite the great opportunity that it allows for recycling familiar elements and offering fan service? Wouldn't you like to see the new characters have run-ins with younger versions of your favorite GoT characters and, together, save the kingdom from a threat that no one will ever speak of only a generation later? Such a prequel series would almost write itself. If I'm Alex Kurtzman, I'm thinking that HBO is foolishly passing up a great opportunity and making more work for themselves than they need to.

Nicely done this post earns a Picard gif

 

[peate]

I've just started his last book, talks about Aegon the Conqueror and his reign and battles. Pretty good stuff so far, about 70 pages in out of 750 or so. I thought that's what the prequel would be about.

 

[ecemleafs]

I've just started his last book, talks about Aegon the Conqueror and his reign and battles. Pretty good stuff so far, about 70 pages in out of 750 or so. I thought that's what the prequel would be about.

Fire and blood? That's just a targaryen encyclopedia post aegons conquest. The prequel that is being filmed is about the long night.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

so GRRM revealed some info about this show recently.

"The pilot, set 5,000 years before the events depicted in the recently concluded Game of Thrones, is now filming in Northern Ireland. On the title, Martin noted that The Long Night or some variation of that looks likely: “I heard a suggestion that it could be called The Longest Night, which is a variant I wouldn’t mind. That would be pretty good.”

Some things will have a ring of familiarity for fans of the original series, Martin said: “The Starks will definitely be there. Obviously the White Walkers are here — or as they’re called in my books, The Others — and that will be an aspect of it. There are things like direwolves and mammoths.”

Fans won’t see the Lannisters in the new series, at least not immediately.
“The Lannisters aren’t there yet, but Casterly Rock is certainly there; it’s like the Rock of Gibraltar,” Martin said. “It’s actually occupied by the Casterlys — for whom it’s still named after in the time of Game of Thrones.”

Martin said the series will center on an unconstructed era of a divided land: “We talk about the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros; there were Seven Kingdoms at the time of Aegon’s Conquest. But if you go back further then there are nine kingdoms, and 12 kingdoms, and eventually you get back to where there are a hundred kingdoms — petty kingdoms — and that’s the era we’re talking about here.”

Sounds good! Sucks we have to wait likely years for it to be released. I'll probably go rewatch the entire GoT to hype myself up for this a few months before it comes out.

 

[ecemleafs]

Sounds good! Sucks we have to wait likely years for it to be released. I'll probably go rewatch the entire GoT to hype myself up for this a few months before it comes out.

Says they are already filming so ud think it would be out by the end of 2020 the latest.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Says they are already filming so ud think it would be out by the end of 2020 the latest.

Hopefully you're right, but that would be too good to be true haha. I'm sure everything will get delayed at some point. If it comes out in 2020 i'd be shocked.

 

[alko]

The pilot, set 5,000 years before the events depicted in the recently concluded Game of Thrones

5 000 years? That is a really long time period. They should actually conquest the space already.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

I feel like I'm in the minority here, but truth be told I think I'd be far more interested in seeing a different segment of the world versus any prequel or sequel in Westeros or western Essos.

Something set in Sothoryos might be cool, say a captured Westerosi sold into slavery down there and the whole thing is a fish out of water scenario, or maybe a colonization/conquering expedition sent down there by one of the known powers. Just a tangible enough of a connection that not everything is alien, but potential for an entirely fresh take. And each new season the opening credits could show more and more of the suddenly known world.

 

[Eye of Ra]

i like it.

a prequal about roberts rebellion would just be boring. we already know everything about it , it would just be same quality as the recent season 6 and 7.

 

[chicagoskycam]

10,000 years in past is absurd to be honest

Think of where mankind was 10,000 years ago in our development

I don't see how you can build a credible series in what should essentially be cave people era

They should have just made prequel series about the mad kings descent into madness and how he kicked off Robert's Rebellion , etc

This is not Earth though soo

 

[jasonleaffan]

Game of Thrones prequel pilot ordered by HBO: Details...

HBO has officially greenlit a follow-up pilot to its acclaimed international hit Game of Thrones and it sounds just as massively ambitious as the original series.

The network has ordered a prequel drama from writer Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass) and author George R.R. Martin. The network has released an official description of the show’s storyline, and it’s another tale spread across multiple locations and clans: Taking place thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series chronicles the world’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour. And only one thing is for sure: 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 … it’s not the story we think we know.”

According to Martin’s books, the Age of Heroes began 10,000 years before the events in GoT. Some of the major names which could be characters in the new show include Bran the Builder (who founded House Stark, and oversaw construction of The Wall and Winterfell) and Lann the Clever (who founded House Lannister). The era led into the Long Night — a winter that lasted a generation — and the greatest war against the white walkers. Then again, that’s what we think we know, and the logline for the new show says this is “not the story we think we know.”

Your link is broken.

 

[glovesave_35]

I feel like I'm in the minority here, but truth be told I think I'd be far more interested in seeing a different segment of the world versus any prequel or sequel in Westeros or western Essos.

Something set in Sothoryos might be cool, say a captured Westerosi sold into slavery down there and the whole thing is a fish out of water scenario, or maybe a colonization/conquering expedition sent down there by one of the known powers. Just a tangible enough of a connection that not everything is alien, but potential for an entirely fresh take. And each new season the opening credits could show more and more of the suddenly known world.

I agree with you. However, I do like the idea of going to a time of petty kingdoms before the lands we know turned into something worth everyone grappling over.

 

[ecemleafs]

I agree with you. However, I do like the idea of going to a time of petty kingdoms before the lands we know turned into something worth everyone grappling over.

i also like the idea of having it so far back with so many different people and families, yet we do have some legendary families and names that we will know.

 

[ecemleafs]

I feel like I'm in the minority here, but truth be told I think I'd be far more interested in seeing a different segment of the world versus any prequel or sequel in Westeros or western Essos.

Something set in Sothoryos might be cool, say a captured Westerosi sold into slavery down there and the whole thing is a fish out of water scenario, or maybe a colonization/conquering expedition sent down there by one of the known powers. Just a tangible enough of a connection that not everything is alien, but potential for an entirely fresh take. And each new season the opening credits could show more and more of the suddenly known world.

the valyrians freehold from its peak, leading into the doom would be very interesting. only issue would be that the valyrians speak valyrian and this universe already introduced us to characters speaking that language albeit in small segments. would they speak english if a show was entirely based on valyria?