Author George R.R. Martin Says He Is Working On 3 ‘Game of Thrones’ Animated Series

George R.R. Martin updated fans on events in the larger Game of Thrones universe on his personal website ahead of the release of House of the Dragon season 2 in 2024. Initially, he disclosed that out of the four animation projects under production, two had been put on hold.?

After that, he revealed that, should it be approved, the planned Nine Voyages series will be animated—"a move I support fully," he said, adding that "budgetary constraints would likely have made a live action version prohibitively expensive."

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He wrote, “As it happens, HBO and I have our own animated projects, set in the world of A SONG OF ICE & FIRE. 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.”

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For those who don’t know, Nine Voyages, a proposed spinoff of House of the Dragon, has switched from live-action to animated. The HBO series Game of Thrones was adapted from the fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, and House of the Dragon is a spinoff of that show (Game Of Thrones).

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