Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin has announced that three animated series set in the world of A Song of Ice & Fire are being developed.
Martin revealed the information on his website, noting that though they haven’t been greenlit yet, three animated series are in the works between himself and HBO. One of them is Nine Voyages — a show that focuses on the voyages of Corlys Velaryon that was previously intended to be made as a live-action series.
“As it happens, HBO and I have our own animated projects, set in the world of A Song of Ice & Fire,” Martin wrote. “None of them have been greenlit yet, but I think we are getting close to taking the next step with a couple of them. When this last round of development started a few years back, we had four ideas for animated shows, with some great talents attached. Writers rooms and summits, outline and scripts followed in due course … but, alas, two of the original projects were subsequently shelved.
“Work on the other two animated projects continues apace, however…and meanwhile, we have moved Nine Voyages, our series about the legendary voyages of the Sea Snake, over from live action to animation. A move I support fully. Budgetary constraints would likely have made a live action version prohibitively expensive, what with half the show taking place at sea, and the necessity of creating a different port every week, from Driftmark to Lys to the Basilisk Isles to Volantis to Qarth to … well, on and on and on. There’s a whole world out there. And we have a lot better chance of showing it all with animation. So we now have three animated projects underway.”
What was the most recent Game of Thrones spinoff series?
House of the Dragon Season 1 was released in 2022. Based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon chronicles the rise and the downfall of the Targaryens — the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria. It currently stars Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Sonoya Mizuno, Graham McTavish, Jefferson Hall, David Horovitch, Matthew Needham, Bill Patterson, Gavin Spokes, Wil Johnson, John Macmillan, Savannah Steyn, and Theo Nate.
