Game of Thrones (HBO)

Rock8man · June 10, 2018, 3:46am

It probably falls in between Man vs Nature and Man vs Man.

Woolen_Horde · June 11, 2018, 3:20pm

http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2018/06/11/hbo-greenlights-goldman-pilot/

To clarify, what we have here is a pilot order, not as yet a series order. Though of course we are all hoping that will follow.

Yes, this is a prequel, not a sequel. None of the characters or actors from GAME OF THRONES will appear in the new show. All of the successor shows we’ve been developing have been prequels, as I have mentioned before. This one really puts the PRE in prequel, since it is set not ninety years before GAME OF THRONES (like Dunk & Egg), or a few hundred years, but rather ten thousand years (well, assuming the oral histories of the First Men are accurate, but there are maesters at the Citadel who insist it has only been half that long). We’re very early in the process, of course, with the pilot order just in, so we don’t have a director yet, or a cast, or a location, or even a title. (My vote would be THE LONG NIGHT, which says it all, but I’d be surprised if that’s where we end up. More likely HBO will want to work the phrase “game of thrones” in there somewhere. We’ll know sooner or later).

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As for the other successor shows… if you have been following along, you know that we started with four, and eventually went to five. One of those has been shelved, I am given to understand, and of course Jane’s pilot is now moving to film. But that does not mean the others are dead. Three more GAME OF THRONES prequels, set in different periods and featuring different characters and storylines, remain in active development. Everything I am told indicates that we could film at least one more pilot, and maybe more than one, in the years to come. We do have an entire world and tens of thousands of years of history to play with, after all. But this is television, so nothing is certain.

Kyle_Wilson1 · June 11, 2018, 4:57pm

I just broke an orbital from rolling my eyes so hard.

wisefool · June 11, 2018, 8:21pm

GOT is gonna be HBO’s superhero franchise.

Gordon_Cameron · June 11, 2018, 10:30pm

Yeah I’m sure the word ‘universe’ is being tossed around a lot.

Of course, there were TV universes long before there were movie universes!

The All in the Family O Verse:

All in the Family
The Jeffersons
Maude
Archie Bunker’s Place
Gloria

And then there’s that other one, something Trek?

Menzo · June 11, 2018, 11:47pm

Don’t forget Happy Days/Mork from Ork/Laverne&Shirley!

abidingdude · June 11, 2018, 11:49pm

+Joanie Loves Chachi

Djscman · June 12, 2018, 12:12am

The Tommy Westphall Universe?

Gordon_Cameron · June 12, 2018, 12:39am

There was even a Cheers O Verse. In addition to Cheers and Frasier there was very briefly a Nick Tortelli sitcom.

anonymgeist · June 12, 2018, 1:07am

Wings is connected to that, too.

Papageno · June 12, 2018, 1:46am

Really? Did characters from Cheers or Frasier show up on Wings? I don’t remember, honestly, and I watched pretty regularly, though I didn’t catch all the episodes.

anonymgeist · June 12, 2018, 1:48am

Yeah. At least Frasier and Lilith showed up in one episode, but there may have been others, too.

Papageno · June 12, 2018, 1:54am

The best things about Wings were Antonio the Italian cabbie and Lowell, the idiot savant airplane mechanic.
Crystal Bernard wasn’t too bad either, but for different reasons. :-)

Balasarius · June 12, 2018, 4:29am

Prequels suck. Always.

Sonoftgb · June 12, 2018, 10:42am

Says the man who clearly has never watched Better Call Saul.

Gordon_Cameron · June 12, 2018, 11:32am

Oh I was trying to think of a counter example. Good call.

Gordon_Cameron · June 12, 2018, 6:16pm

Of course, we must not forget the greatest TV Universe of them all.

Sonoftgb · June 12, 2018, 6:29pm

The Scoobyverse is indeed awesome.

Woolen_Horde · June 12, 2018, 6:45pm

You forget the great unifying John Munch!

http://www.poobala.com/homicideandxfiles.html

preciousgollum1 · June 12, 2018, 11:10pm

@Woolen_Horde
By the way, there were leaks of the scripts online (- season 7 leaks were spot on), and the 6 episodes of season 8 seem to be covered too.

Based on what one member of the cast has been hinting at regarding the fate of their character for the final season (the article was recent), it seems that the Season 8 leaks from a while ago might be accurate… unless it is all a grand form of misdirection.

So, if you can’t wait another year, Google might be your friend to discuss Game of Thrones with.