Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss won’t have anything to do with the upcoming spin-offs.
During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Weiss confirmed that they won’t be heading back to Westeros for any of the Game of Thrones spin-off shows.
“We never saw more Game of Thrones shows [as] something that made sense for us to be involved with, given where we were just as people at the time we were done with the original,” he explained.
HBO is clearly hoping to continue the success of Game of Thrones with its upcoming prequels and spin-offs, starting with House of the Dragon later this year. The series is based on writer George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, charting the history of the Targaryen empire.
Although a previous attempt at a prequel, starring Naomi Watts, was ultimately canceled.
“All in, we were 11 years, probably, doing that show,” explained Weiss. “When I say 11 years, it was full-on, all in, all day, every day for 11 years. It was the best decade of our lives. It still kind of feels a bit like a dream, but we got to a place where it was pretty clear to us that we had reached the end of what made sense for us to be involved with in that world that we lived. It just felt like, for us, it was time to move on and get excited and terrified about building something else — building lots of something elses.”
Although Game of Thrones was a huge hit, it wasn’t without detractors… especially when it comes to the show’s finale. Leaving plenty of unanswered questions, the final episode left a lot of fans disappointed.
Benioff and Weiss’ post-Game of Thrones career has also been a bit of start-and-stop following the critically-mixed series finale. The duo were tapped to create a series of Star Wars films for Disney, but exited the project in 2019 to focus on other project.
The pair were also on board with a new HBO series Confederate which imagined an alternate timeline where the south won the Civil War. This series was also canceled amid criticism over the topic that HBO presidend Casey Bloys called “misguided.”
Nevertheless the pair have a lucrative overall deal with Netflix to produce content for the streaming giant. The pair already produced the academia drama The Chair and are set to adapt the critically-acclaimed sci-fi novel The Three Body Problem alongside Rian Johnson.
Other Game of Thrones spin-off shows currently include 10,000 Ships which follows the story of Princess Nymeria, an ancestor of House Martell and founder of the kingdom of Dorne. This series is set a whole millennium before the events of Game of Thrones.
Then, there’s 9 Voyages which tells the story of Lord Corlys Velaryon, also known as the Sea Snake, and the head of the House of Velaryon.
Finally, there’s a Tales of Dunk and Egg spin-off in the works which is written by The Secret Life of Walter Mitty scribe, Steve Conrad.
Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon is expected to premiere on HBO in 2022.
Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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