Game Of Thrones Might Be Getting Another Prequel — And Yes, There Will Be Dragons

Prepare yourselves, Game of Thrones fans. Another prequel series is now works, and in the event you wish to know more about the Targaryens, this one's for you.


According to EW, HBO is very close to green-lighting a pilot for a series about the history of Residence Targaryen. The new show would take place around 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones and would detail the house's civil war, the Dance of the Dragons. In other words, you haven't seen the last of these enormous, fire-breathing creatures quite yet.


Apparently, this particular series is one that HBO's been interested in for a while, and finalizing the pilot's script, which was written by Ryan Condal (Colony), has taken a while. According to EW, the network "commissioned five screenwriters to try their hand at different Game of Thrones prequel ideas back in 2017 in a unusual bake-off task to replace its departing mega-hit series."


George R.R. Martin, the author who wrote the A Song of Ice and Fire novels that inspired Game of Thrones, took a particular liking to this prequel idea as well — especially since he released a book in November 2018 about the Targaryen's history called Fire and Blood. "The book complex events that could be covered in this possible series and is serving because the basis for the show," EW said. And better although, Martin is on board to executive produce.


Nevertheless we'll be waiting a while for this prequel to air, a tiny taste of what happened throughout the Dance of the Dragons was actually teased while in Season 5 of GoT. "It's the story of the fight between Rhaenyra Targaryen and her half-brother Aegon for control over the Seven Kingdoms," Shireen Baratheon told Stannis of the book she was reading. "Both of these thought they belonged on the Iron Throne. Any time people began declaring for one of these or the other, their fight divided the kingdoms in two."


If Shireen's description was any indication, the prequel is going to be an especially bloody one. "Brothers fought brothers, dragons fought dragons," she mentioned. By the time it was over, thousands were dead. And it also was a mess for the Targaryens as well. They never truly recovered."


Clearly, GoT fans have a lot to look forward to. Moreover to nearing a pilot sort for this Targaryen prequel, HBO previously ordered a pilot set thousands of years before Game of Thrones. Alas, the spin-off will showcase a very different world — one with "hundreds of kingdoms," no Targaryens or dragons, and some White Walkers. We are not ready!