Recreation of Thrones Prequel Ten Thousand Ships Is Again in Motion

Again in April, Oscar-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland revealed details about his pitch for a Game of Thrones prequel that HBO in the end handed on. Now, in accordance with Thrones writer George R.R. Martin, a Pulitzer-winning playwright has joined the possible new HBO collection.

The collection—variously known as Ten Thousand Ships and 10,000 Ships—has been within the ether since at least 2021, however you’ll be able to go all the way in which again to 2014 to seek out Martin’s mention of a written project of the identical title, specializing in Princess Nymeria, seen as a people hero by later Westeros figures like Home of the Dragon’s younger Alicent and Rhaenyra, and “the ultimate deadly battle between the proud princes of the river and the dragonlords of outdated Valyria.” In the present day, Martin shared that Eboni Sales space—who received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama earlier this yr for her play Major Belief—has now come aboard HBO’s Ten Thousand Ships.

In response to Martin, she is “engaged on a brand new pilot,” so count on a shift from Helgeland’s tease of what he would have dropped at the desk. In April, he told Inverse that “I believe they felt the interval of my present was too far faraway from the pillars of the unique … My script was based mostly on Queen Nymeria and this little blurb about her that was in a Westeros encyclopedia. Primarily, it was the story of Moses however swapping him out for Nymeria. Her nation will get ruined and her individuals are pressured to dwell on the water, which is why the present was referred to as 10,000 Ships. They find yourself having to depart and discover a new residence just like the Israelites leaving Egypt. She’s main all these folks, attempting to carry everybody collectively however issues are at all times at risk of falling aside as they journey round a fictionalized model of the Mediterranean, in search of a brand new residence to settle in.”

In immediately’s tease, Martin describes the present as “a Recreation of Thrones spinoff about Nymeria and the Rhoynar,” which isn’t a lot to go on, however provides “We’re all very enthusiastic about this one… although we’re nonetheless attempting to determine how we’re going to pay for ten thousand ships, 300 dragons, and people big turtles.”

Talking of dragons—although not practically that many—Home of the Dragon season two premieres HBO and Max this Sunday, June 16. The subsequent Recreation of Thrones spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, is teased by the community as “coming quickly;” based mostly on Martin’s “Dunk and Egg” tales, it’ll be a prequel set after Home of the Dragon, however 100 years earlier than Recreation of Thrones.

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