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Updated with the Latest: Five new cast members have joined HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in addition to a new director, and production is underway in Belfast, Ireland. In April 2023, HBO announced it had ordered the show, tentatively titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Episode 1 of Season 2 of House of the Dragon. A long-awaited return to Westeros in the time of Daenerys Targaryen’s ancestors took place in Season 2 of the Game of Thrones spinoff show House of the Dragon, which launched Sunday night on HBO and Max. The…

Ahead of Sunday’s Season 2 premiere, HBO has confirmed it has renewed House of the Dragon for a third season. The news is not a surprise. House of the Dragon creator George R.R. Martin teased in December 2023 that he was already working with the writing team on Seasons 3 and 4 of the fantasy…

Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin has revealed that the previously scrapped spinoff Ten Thousand Ships is being revived, and Eboni Booth is on board for the pilot. The author took to his blog to congratulate Booth on winning a Pulitzer Prize for her play Primary Truth and dropped the news…

EXCLUSIVE: Famed fantasy writer George R.R. Martin has unveiled the first still from the set of The Summer Machine, a short film that we’re told will be part of a new anthology series produced by Martin. Check the image out below. Further details about the project are scant, but we’re told that it’s…

George R.R. Martin is calling out film and TV adaptations of books that don’t live up to their source material. In a new blog post, the author recalls a panel with Neil Gaiman, the creator of the comic book series Sandman, which Netflix adapted into a series. Gaiman was involved in developing the…

Ready for Game of Thrones lite? A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a new series coming to HBO next year, and author George R.R. Martin, the EP of the series and creator of the novels that spawned this world, promises a shift in tone. The new spinoff "will be a lot shorter than Game of Thrones or…

HBO is rolling out some beauteous dragon footage and a potty-mouthed Aegon in the season 2 trailer for House of the Dragon, which returns June 16. The drama based on on George R.R. Martin's "Fire & Blood" is setting up an epic war between the Targaryens and the Hightowers following the Season 1…

Brian Helgeland was one of the writers working on a Game of Thrones spinoff that George R.R. Martin signed off on but one that HBO did not pick up. In a new interview, Helgeland discusses why the tentatively titled 10,000 Ships series didn’t happen despite his saying his script “came out…

George R. R. Martin no longer finds the fun in debating about books, movies, and TV. He blames social media for “toxicity” that stifles any dissent. The author behind the books that became the TV series Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, Martin lamented the passing of “rational discourse” on…

George R.R. Martin spent his New Year’s Eve updating fans on his animated projects that will be set in the world of A Song of Ice & Fire. He also had one big change to share regarding Nine Voyages, the Game of Thrones spinoff about the great voyages at sea made by Corlys Velaryon aboard the Sea Snake…

The creator behind the Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon has given his verdict on the first two episodes of season two. Writing on his Not a Blog website, George R.R. Martin related how he visited the set of what he termed “Hot D” for three days while it was being shot. “All I…