any info or rumors about casting?
super excited for this it was the spin off I was hoping they would make and that seems to me the best possible option they should really make one season for each of the 3 stories and ya the 2nd and 3rd stories absolutely have enough to be stretched out to 12+ episodes very easily while still staying extremely faithful to the books.

the 3rd story is fantastic you should really finish it

I adore the knight of the seven kingdoms novellas (the hedge knight the sworn sword and the mystery knight) and at this point I would much rather have him publish more dunk and egg stories than finish ASOIAF and it's not even close. and btw the audiobooks are really fantastic the narrator (guy who played viserys in the show) does an incredible job.

if they give this show a good budget and get the right creative team to make it and cast it well it has GOAT potential.

haven't seen anything yet, but i guess the one interesting detail i did note was that they apparently didn't specify any race for the casting of dunc. part of it probably because they wouldn't mind having some diversity in the show, but also because they want as many options as possible given that actor has to be like 6'2"-6'4" at minimum.

guessing we'll hear something sooner than late considering that filming is set to start june 3rd in belfast


nice

and apparently the 4th one, the she-wolves of winterfell, is one of the other grrm projects that might actually get completed, so an extra season there. if ppl watch the show...

saw some more stuff that i missed, and also to clarify what i said before

- aegon's conquest --> feature film, theatrical release. with an hbo series to follow
current plan seems to be to make a big hollywood movie out of the conquest. casting will be very interesting here, considering it'll transition into a tv series after. would they get big names to be in both, or go with more of an unknown, or just re-cast when they get to tv? and i guess if this succeeds as a movie, we'll probably see more asoiaf films in the future. would be cool, there's probably a bunch of neat stories that you can tell in 2-3 hours

- 9 voyages of young corlys --> animated show. they were working on this as a live action thing but finally decided that it'd be too difficult and costly like that, so now it's being developed as an animated project.

- there are 2 other animated projects in some stage of development, while 2 others were shelved.
this is pretty cool. i've been wondering for a while, since watching those got history & lore videos where just some still images and narration was pretty compelling, why they haven't made any animated shows. the material really lends itself to that given how huge and epic a lot of it is, and how hard it is to pull off in live action. obviously with animation you can do anything you want, you're mostly only limited by your imagination. anyway we could be getting 2-3 different animated series, to start with. hopefully we get at least one. should do, seems like a thing they're pretty interested in. i mean having a couple of these things kicking around could certainly plug some programming gaps, probably part of the thinking as well

- untitled nymeria show still in the works. not greenlit, 2026 at earliest
i guess this is another one they considered going animated with, but a show like this with strong female lead has to be a draw for them, would be a nice role for someone. apparently this series was the 2nd idea they pursued after got, the 1st being some kind of valyria thing. now that could be animated. would be interesting to see how they approach a live action show requiring hundreds of dragons, without it sucking. anyway they've come back to the nymeria idea, possible it's the next thing to get confirmed.

- in a not too distant blog post i guess grrm was talking about "shelved" vs "killed", and how "nothing is ever dead for good in hollywood". so this is sort of what i meant regarding this jon snow series, the fact that they keep coming back to it seems meaningful, and what is "shelved" may never die. but it is way down the line at the moment, with all these other projects in development, so ... 2030? lol

I would be absolutely stoked for some animated adaptations esp if they did some R rated ones.

i guess they announced it today


dunk = some 6'4" irish ex-rugby player Peter Claffey, "known for Harry Wild (2022), Wreck (2022) and Bad Sisters (2022)", which i guess are all (british?) tv shows. quit rugby at some point to pursue acting ... possibly because he was better at the latter? i sure hope so. was in 12 eps of wreck (7.0 on imdb), but perhaps his 1 ep of bad sisters (8.3) is the best example of his work? consult your local irishman for more information

egg = some british child Dexter Sol Ansell, known for "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), The Midwich Cuckoos (2022) and Christmas on Mistletoe Farm (2022)".
if you're a big hunger games fan you may have noticed him as some main character in a flashback in this one movie (6.8), or alternatively in 5 eps of that midwich thing (6.6)


glgl fellas

interesting thanks.
really hope they get a good crew and show runner I have incredibly high expectations these short stories are some of my absolute fav fiction have read/listened to them more times than I can keep track of and have no plans on slowing down.

fwiw the narrator (pretty sure the actor who played viserys, brother of the dragon queen) does a phenomenal job really enjoyable to listen while falling asleep at night.

this guy did a video on the writing team, will probably be more updates to follow as filming ramps up for june

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mek0isq-L_4
(from ~7:00-14:00 mark)

cliffs
- show runner: ira parker (wrote hotd s1e4), also worked with one of the writers on a show called "the last ship"
- seems like a solid group
- grrm and ryan condal are listed as producers, not sure their levels of involvement, but grrm did talk about being part of the team writing the pilot. unlike with got it seems like they have a writers room, and he is in it, so that's encouraging

Reasonably solid background but not spectacular. Will need involvement by GRRM in the writer's room.

Snow show confirmed dead.

WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE. you know this