Hbo working on the new Game of Thrones prequel

(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 22 JAN - In a continuous search for new content, Hbo returns to focus on "Game of Thrones", one of its most successful series.

According to Variety, a new adaptation of George RR Martin's fantasy volume "The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" would be in the preliminary stages of production.

    It would be a prequel to the main series, set in the continent of Westeros 90 years before the events narrated by Martin in the volumes of "A Song of Ice and Fire" that inspired the eight seasons of the hugely popular saga.

    This time the protagonists would be the knight-errant SirDuncan the High, nicknamed Dunk, and his young squire Egg, who later becomes king Aegon V of the Targaryen house.

The show would last one hour.

The indiscretions of "Variety" do not include elements on the cast, direction and writers.

    Martin has so far published three short stories about the adventures of Dunk and Egg, reunited in 2015 in the volume "The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms": "The Errant Knight" of 1998, followed by "The SwordGiurata" in 2003 and "The Mysterious Knight" in 2010

    . Hbo "Game of Thrones" was a golden egg hen.

Broadcast in 73 episodes from 2011 to 2019 on the Usavia cable channel (in Italy on Sky and Now TV), the series attracted a record number of viewers, generated a following of international fans and obtained unreserved applause from critics.

    Sources for "Variety" indicate that the new prequel is considered by HBO to be "a high priority".

And if the project were to mature into a series, it would be the second in progress after "House of the Dragon" which should debut in 2022: in this prequel, set 300 years before the war for the conquest of the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, it should quote Olivia Cooke, Emma D'Arcy and Matt Smith as the new members of the Targaryen house, the ancestors of Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington).

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