HBO Spent $30 Million on aGame of ThronesPrequel We’ll Never See

realise a follow - up to one of the biggest illusion shows ever has been a journey worthy of Westeros ’ mighty submarine sandwich . WhenGame of Thrones ended back in 2019 , HBO already screw it want the world to proceed . Several ideas were batted aroundwithone eventually rising to the top . A script was write , the show was vagabond , and an installment was filmedbefore the show was scrapped . And now , we be intimate just how much that all price .

Insiderreports that in a new book call up Tinderbox : HBO ’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers by James Andrew Miller , it ’s revealed that the canceled pilot cost over $ 30 million . You understand that right wing . We did n’t add an supererogatory zero . Thirty million - plus for the installment , and it was trashed . “ They had expend over $ 30 million on a Game of Thrones prequel cowcatcher that was in production when I got there , ” former president of WarnerMedia amusement Bob Greenblatt says in the al-Qur’an . “ And when I see a undercut of it in a few months after I arrive , I said to Casey [ Bloys , principal content officer ] ‘ This just does n’t work and I do n’t think it delivers on the hope of the original serial publication . ’ And he did n’t disagree , which actually was a relief . ”

The show was write by Kick - Ass and Kingsman scribe Jane Goldman and starred The Ring ’s Naomi Watts , Harry Potter’sMiranda Richardson , Star Wars : The Rise of Skywalker’sNaomi Ackie , and Georgie Henley from The Chronicles of Narnia . It was set thousands and thousands of old age before the events of the TV show and was supposed to show Westeros transitioning from the prosperous “ Age of Heroes ” into “ The Long Night , ” which was oftentimes cite on the show .

Jon Snow battles through a Game of Thrones episode we did get to watch.

Jon Snow battles through a Game of Thrones episode we did get to watch.Image: HBO

“ So we , unfortunately , decided to pull the plug on it , ” Greenblatt added . “ There was enormous pressure to get it right and I do n’t suppose that would have worked . ” A few month after that plug was pulled , Bloysdid an audience with Deadlineand added even more context of use . “ In development , in pilots , sometimes things come together , sometimes they do n’t , ” he said in former 2020 . “ One of the things I think Jane took on attractively , which was a challenge , there was a lot more role cosmos because she set hers 8,000 years before the [ original ] show , so it required a flock more . That is a big golf shot . One of the matter about House of Dragons , there is a text , there is a book so that made it a little bit more of a road map for a serial publication order . ”

Yes . That brings us toHouse of the Dragon , the Game of Thrones prequel show that is definitely happening and premieres in 2022 . “ I ’m the one who advance Casey to greenlight it to series , ” Greenblatt is quoted as tell in Tinderbox . “ I say , ‘ allow ’s not risk $ 30 million on a pilot light . ’ You ca n’t spend $ 30 million on a pilot and then not peck it up . So I say , ‘ Let ’s not make a pilot . Let ’s get a dandy serial that we feel good about , and just make it . Or not . ’ ”

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