With Game of Thrones coming to an end this year with its current eighth and final season, HBO announced back in 2017 that it was working on five potential spinoffs set in the world created by George R.R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire.
One of those – going by the working title The Long Night and written by Martin and Jane Goldman (X-Men: First Class) – is currently prepping to shoot its pilot episode; however GoT writer Bryan Cogman has revealed that his proposed spinoff is no longer moving forward and has been cancelled by HBO.
“I was developing one of the successor shows with George,” Cogman tells THR. “George has worked with a bunch of the writers, including Jane, whose show is being done [as a pilot]. My prequel show is not happening and will not happen. HBO decided to go a different way. I’m working with Amazon now and helping them out with their shows. So, it is a goodbye. I am done with Westeros. It’s wonderfully bittersweet…”
Martin had previously suggested last summer that one of the planned spinoffs had been shelved, but it remains to be seen whether he was referring to this one from Cogman, or one of the other three projects.
The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones is currently airing on HBO on Sundays in the US and on Sky Atlantic on Mondays in the UK.
Originally published April 27, 2019. Updated April 28, 2019.
