Game Of Thrones Spin-Off: Everything We Know About 'The Long Night'
HBO have big plans for Westeros beyond the end of Game of Thrones.
The end of Game of Thrones is nigh. The record-setting, internet-breaking series will come to an end with its eighth season, which gets underway in April of next year, and then that's it.
Until the spin-off, of course. We're in an era where IPs and franchises are the currency, and it makes no sense for studios to have just one series when they could have multiple, and given just how big Game of Thrones is - pulling in tens of millions of viewers in the United States alone - there was never any chance of them leaving things be.
It was revealed last year that up to five spin-offs were being worked on, moving towards a pilot stage, which one is now approaching. Telling the story of the Age of Heroes and the Long Night, it's going to be a side of Westeros we've never seen before, and even though it's some way off there have been a number of key reveals about the prequel recently.
8. George R.R. Martin Really Wants It To Be Called The Long Night
While the Game of Thrones spin-off doesn't yet have an official name, there is one major frontrunner out there: The Long Night. That's not because it makes sense and ties directly to the narrative (although it does), but because it's what George R.R. Martin has been repeatedly referring to it as on social media and his Not A Blog page for some time now.
Martin's done it so much that it's even the name it's going by on IMDb (although that also lists it as a TV Movie), but for all Martin's desire, HBO aren't going for it, and he himself has admitted defeat - for now. He wrote:
“HBO has informed me that the Jane Goldman pilot is not (yet) titled THE LONG NIGHT. That is certainly the title I prefer, but for the moment the pilot is still officially UNTITLED. So… mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. Elsewise, the pilot is coming along well, with casting falling into place.”