House Of The Dragon spin-off pivots to animation
George R.R. Martin says one potential Game Of Thrones prequel has become an animated project
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There’s nothing modern Hollywood loves more than a franchise, and Game Of Thrones—despite a shaky dismount on the flagship series—has proved to have some staying power with the prequel House Of The Dragon. A few other projects have cycled in and out of development, most notably a Jon Snow spin-off starring Kit Harrington that’s still in the works. But creator George R.R. Martin has big dreams for his fantasy universe, which involve expanding beyond books and live-action into other mediums, like animation.
An animated GoT has been in the mix for a while, but in a new blog post, Martin says that they’re “getting close to taking the next step with a couple of” these ideas, though nothing has yet been greenlit. Of four original animated concepts, two have been shelved (with the possibility to return, maybe in graphic novel form), while two continue to be developed. Plus, the previously announced Sea Snake/Nine Voyages show has become an animated project, Martin announced in the blog.
“Budgetary constraints would likely have made a live-action version prohibitively expensive, what with half the show taking place at sea, and the necessity of creating a different port every week, from Driftmark to Lys to the Basilisk Isles to Volantis to Qarth to… well, on and on and on,” the author wrote. “There’s a whole world out there. And we have a lot better chance of showing it all with animation. So we now have three animated projects underway.”
The Sea Snake is about Lord Corlys Velaryon, a character introduced on-screen in House Of The Dragon. The prequel to the prequel series is set to follow the famed ocean voyages that made Corlys a Westerosi legend. Steve Toussaint, who played the character on House Of The Dragon, told Entertainment Weekly that “It’ll be some younger, prettier guy playing” the role in the prequel, though he wanted to petition to “be at the beginning [of the show] sitting with a book saying, ‘Let me talk about my life.’” Now that the show has moved to animation, there’s even more wiggle room for Toussaint to be involved, if he should so desire.
However, as Martin pointed out in his blog, there’s “no way to know” if any of these projects will make it to air, as “Nothing is certain in Hollywood.” However, if they do get the green light, he hopes to make the series “as good as gorgeous and gripping” as one of his favorite new shows, Blue Eye Samurai: “We will for damn sure try,” Martin promised.
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I recognize that this site is crumbling and getting more amateur every week, but “greenlit” means “lighted with green-shaded filters”. A project being given approval to move forward in production is “green-lighted” (sometimes not hyphenated).
Merriam-Webster says both are equally acceptable: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/whats-the-past-tense-of-green-light#:~:text=Greenlit%20is%20simply%20following%20an,in%20fact%20still%20in%20use.
Merriam Webster is the chief condoner and mainstreamer of all sorts of mistakes that fall into the common parlance via idiocy. “Irregardless”, greenlit vs greenlight remains an important distinction in an industry inexorably entwined with lighting.
Oh boy, a prescriptivist with a real gift for language!It is odd to insist on the impermanence of a term that’s less than a century old, especially to insist on less regular (if slightly older) term when the regular one is right there, and is already far more common (10x by a simple Google search).
I’ve seen greenlit used in the production sense as well and it’s the word used by Martin in his blog. Maybe consider saving your complaints for more deserving targets?
Seems very in-character for Frasier Crane, though.
Doesn’t greenlit also just sound better?
I’ll certainly consider it… but Martin is wrong, I’ve only seen the amateur and fanblogs use it wrongly “in the production sense”, and until production crews and the trades change, it’ll continue to be wrong.
who greenlitted this reply???
at least it is not superhero fatigue…….. Sigh.
Heres a new idea. Finish the fucking book or at least admit you gave up and won’t. I can procrastinate but not 13 years worth. My sympathy ran dry long ago.
Look buddy, you can’t just force an ending like this… the muse goes where it must. Have some patience, there are plenty of other completed book series for you to enjoy in the meantime.
Now if I were a self-respecting TV writer, I’d review Blue Eye Samurai. That would be a thing worth doing that wouldn’t make me regret my career choices.
“Yes! Yes! YES! Sequels! Prequels! Pre-prequels! Spin-offs galore! Film! Television! Theater! Animation! Claymation! Shadow puppets! Kabuki! I’m so happy to share my fantastical creation with you in way you can possibly imagination!…so long as it isn’t another book………please don’t make me write another book.”
I’m waaaay more interested in a Corlys Velaryon show than I am with anything Jon Snow related. I’m guessing they won’t go that far but take me to Asshai, Sothoryos, Yi Ti, The Shivering Isles, Qarth, etc. It’s animated anyways, so let’s get weird with it.
Oh please let it be something like Lower Decks.