

First up is The Long Night, which is expected to air next year and is reportedly set 10,000 years before Daenerys Targaryen hatched three dragons from stone. HBO is working on multiple spin-off shows that will be set in the same fantasy world. Winter has come to Game of Thrones, but that doesn’t mean the world of Westeros is finished. Was it the epic fantasy world of dragons and heroes? Was it the Machiavellian scheming and court intrigue? The gritty realism and bloody battles? Here’s a look at some of the shows in production that are trying to recapture the unbelievable success of the fight for the Iron Throne.įor Game of Thrones fans who want more Westeros:

Can any of them replace Game of Thrones? Well, that depends on what viewers loved about the show. In recent years, almost every major channel and streaming service has been working on sprawling epic science fiction and fantasy series. And no one can deny that the television industry is scrambling to find the next heir to the ratings crown. While the last few seasons of the show divided fans and critics, no one can deny the show’s popularity and influence. (Meanwhile, the novel version still isn’t finished.) A few decades later, and the HBO adaptation Game of Thrones hasn’t just been filmed, it has become one of the biggest cultural phenomenons of the last few decades. He thought the story was too sprawling, too complex and too bloody to be told on screen. Martin began his epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire in the 1990s, he set out to write something that would be unfilmable. Several ficlets centering around The children of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, Arya Stark and Gendry Waters, Missandei and Grey Worm, and Sansa Stark and Tyrion Lannister.When George R.
