The saga has overwhelmed the small screen, it now turns its appetites for conquest towards the boards.
Two years after the final of the most pharaonic series of the 2010s, and while the American cable channel HBO is already preparing the rest of the license, a theatrical adaptation should also see the light of day in two years, the producers of this film announced on Tuesday. new project.
"
Our dream is to bring
Westeros
to Broadway, the West End and Australia ... and later to a stage near you,
" George RR Martin, the author behind the show, said in a statement. literary saga of
Game of Thrones
, of
which the
Game of Thrones series
is an adaptation.
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Produced by Simon Painter and Tim Lawson, who produced the massive spectacle of
The Illusionists
, the play is written by Duncan MacMillan, who had his hand in adapting for the theater
George Orwell's
1984
and the
City of Glass
by Paul Auster.
The playwright works closely with George RR Martin himself, who has claimed to have been working on this adaptation in complete secrecy for over a year.
Staging the Harrenhal tournament
For this adaptation, the writer has chosen to stage "
a pivotal moment
" in the framework of the world of
Game of Thrones
: the great tournament of Harrenhal.
Mentioned several times in the novels and in the series, the royal jousting brings together the most prestigious families of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and causes the spark that will set in motion a succession of major events, 16 years before the dramatic adventures described in the great fresco by George RR Martin.
Many of the most famous characters from the
Game of Thrones are
expected to be there, such as Ned Stark and Cersei Lannister.
"
Few of them imagined the carnage to come when the well-born and the common people gathered in Harrenhal to watch the best knights in the kingdom fight in a great tournament,
" the writer sketched of the importance of this tipping point in the history of his fictional world.
“
Now, finally, we will be able to tell the whole story,
” he added.
Since the conclusion of
Game of Thrones
on HBO, the cable channel has been preparing a multitude of new projects derived from the universe created by George RR Martin.
Apart from the next series,
House of Dragon
, expected for 2022, no less than half a dozen different projects seem to be envisaged - according to rumors from the specialized press - for the programming of the channel, and especially on the HBO Max streaming platform.
Outside of HBO, George RR Martin is preparing for Netflix the adaptation of his sci-fi short story
The Kings of the Sands
, which in 1980 won a Hugo Award.
As for literature, precisely, the writer has multiplied in recent years the projects of side books and encyclopedic supplements to his
Iron Throne
fresco
, even though the publication of the saga is far from being completed.
Soon ten years after the publication of
A Dance with the Dragons -
the last volume available - its fans despair of knowing, one day, the end of the extraordinary literary and fantastic cycle that began in 1996.
