Primarily based on George R.R. Martin’s A Music of Ice and Hearth collection of fantasy novels, Recreation of Thrones was a breakthrough for HBO. Debuting in 2011, It straddled a number of eras of its community’s possession and know-how. 

The collection confirmed that large audiences would reply to fantasy collection with dense mythologies. It additionally included a large variety of characters and place names.

And although the collection ultimately received past Martin’s revealed books, many followers had been dissatisfied with how the collection ended. However Recreation of Thrones stays largely well-remembered. 

As with hottest franchises within the current day, the overseers of what’s now Warner Bros. Discovery have sought to increase the franchise in further instructions and indefinitely into the long run. 

Despite the fact that George R.R. Martin nonetheless has to complete the A Music of Ice and Hearth collection, he has written a number of different works set in that universe which might be pure suits for adaptation. 

A have a look at the completely different collection set within the Westeros universe: 

Recreation of Thrones 

The primary Recreation of Thrones collection ran for eight seasons, beginning in 2011 and persevering with by 2018. Created and run by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, it instructed a sprawling story.

It targeted at first on the Battle of 5 Kings and continued by the hunt of Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) to recapture the throne for the Targaryen dynasty. 

The collection’ different main storylines included Tyrion Lannister’s (Peter Dinklage) quest for respect inside his household and later his emergence as a political adviser.

There was additionally Jon Snow’s (Package Harington) evolution from a bastard son of a Northern dynasty to a Night time’s Watch recruit and King within the North.

The collection constructed all through to the conflict between humanity and the military of White Walkers. 

An offscreen subplot all through the years that Recreation of Thrones was on the air was whether or not the collection would outrun the books earlier than Martin might end them. The collection would beat the books to the tip—it turned out, by a number of years. 

Recreation of Thrones spent most of its run as one of the vital common and pirated tv exhibits. And it additionally stood astride main modifications within the trade.

When it started, HBO was a premium cable channel. By its finish, streaming was starting to achieve a foothold. The corporate first launched HBO G and later HBO Now. 

Bloodmoon/The Lengthy Night time 

Even earlier than Recreation of Thrones ended, it was clear HBO needed extra exhibits set in its universe. At one level, the community introduced that it was pursuing a number of completely different spinoffs concurrently. 

The primary one to succeed in a pilot didn’t go ahead as a collection. 

In keeping with A Wiki of Ice and Hearth, that individual collection had the “manufacturing title” of Bloodmoon. It was additionally typically generally known as Recreation of Thrones: The Lengthy Night time.

The collection was set 1000’s of years earlier than the occasions of Recreation of Thrones through the “Age of Heroes.” Jane Goldman was the showrunner. 

HBO introduced the pilot in June 2018. Naomi Watts, who performs Morven Casterly, is the most important identify within the solid. Different solid members included Josh Whitehouse, George Henley, Naomi Ackie, and Sheila Atim. 

They shot the pilot, though it didn’t fairly work out effectively, and the community introduced in October 2019 that it will not proceed.

On the identical day, HBO introduced that it was shifting ahead with a unique prequel collection, which obtained a straight-to-series order. 

Home of The Dragon 

That present was Home of the Dragon, additionally a prequel however set a lot nearer to the occasions of Recreation of Thrones, about 200 years earlier than the Battle of 5 Kings began. 

The collection has direct supply materials in Martin’s 2018 guide Hearth and Blood, which depicts an intra-Targaryen civil struggle generally known as the Dance of the Dragons.

Martin and Ryan Condal created the collection, with Condal and Miguel Sapochnik serving as showrunners within the first season.

From the beginning, the collection has been streaming on what was then HBO Max (now Max) along with HBO. 

One march is Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy), assisted by her uncle/husband Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith).

The opposite is King Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney), assisted by his mom Dowager Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke).   

The collection additionally has many extra dragons than Recreation of Thrones did. Dragons are part of common life in Westeros in that individual period. 

Home of the Dragon debuted its first season in the summertime of 2022, with the second season arriving in the summertime of 2024, due to strike delays. HBO has introduced that the present will run for 4 seasons. 

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 

HBO introduced in June of 2024 that the subsequent collection within the franchise, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, had begun manufacturing after it formally obtained an official order the 12 months earlier than. 

The present is predicated on Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas, beginning with the primary one, The Hedge Knight.

The collection covers the adventures of a knight named Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his a lot shorter squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), who can be a Targaryen prince. 

The collection is ready after the occasions of Home of the Dragon however earlier than these of Recreation of Thrones. The six-episode first season will air on HBO and Max in 2025. 

Untitled Aegon’s Conquest collection

In February of 2024, HBO introduced that it was growing a collection about Aegon’s Conquest. These had been the occasions that led to the Targaryens first taking management of the Kingdom of Westeros.

Aegon the Conqueror was the primary of many Targaryen kings named Aegon, whose conquest got here earlier than the occasions of Home of the Dragon.

Mattson Tomlin, the screenwriter of The Batman, is writing the collection, though the collection nonetheless has not obtained a inexperienced mild.

Snow 

Within the years after Recreation of Thrones wrapped up, there have been stories of a sequel about Jon Snow’s adventures following the principle collection. 

Nevertheless, the present was by no means greenlit, and Package Harington revealed in an interview in 2024 that it was “not in energetic growth.” 

“Presently, it’s off the desk as a result of all of us couldn’t discover the best story to inform that we had been all enthusiastic about sufficient,” Harington mentioned in an interview.

Different exhibits 

These will unlikely be the final Recreation of Thrones spinoffs to reach, however they’re the one ones formally introduced thus far.

Among the many collection talked about in growth is The Sea Snake (often known as 9 Voyages), a present that focuses on the character of Lord Corlys Velaryon, performed on Home of the Dragon by Steven Toussaint.

Totally different variations have been both live-action or animated however haven’t been greenlit.

One other is Ten Thousand Ships, one other potential prequel that may study the historical past of Dorne, one of many extra underdeveloped corners of the Seven Kingdoms.

The present was scrapped after which revived however will not be formally shifting ahead.

As Martin wrote about in a weblog put up in 2022, an animated spinoff known as The Golden Empire was additionally at one level in growth, though there’s little indication it’s nonetheless within the works.

There are a few thousand years of lore to discover.

That features the whole lot from Robert’s Riot to occasions after the tip of Recreation of Thrones, which could possibly be taken up by future collection.