George R.R. Martin spent his New 12 months’s Eve updating followers on his animated tasks that might be set on the earth of A Music of Ice & Hearth. He additionally had one large change to share relating to 9 Voyages, the Recreation of Thrones spinoff concerning the nice voyages at sea made by Corlys Velaryon aboard the Sea Snake ship.
“We now have moved 9 Voyages, our collection concerning the legendary voyages of the Sea Snake, over from dwell motion to animation,” Martin wrote on his private weblog. “A transfer I help totally. Budgetary constraints would doubtless have made a dwell motion model prohibitively costly, what with half the present going down at sea, and the need of making a unique port each week, from Driftmark to Lys to the Basilisk Isles to Volantis to Qarth to… properly, on and on and on. There’s an entire world on the market. And we’ve loads higher probability of exhibiting all of it with animation. So we now have three animated tasks underway.”
Again in 2021, Deadline reported that HBO was seeking to broaden its GOT universe by growing a trio of concepts for brand new tasks. They included 9 Voyages aka Sea Snake, Flea Backside and 10,000 Ships. Of the three, the Sea Snake challenge was extra totally shaped, with a artistic crew on board to develop it. There was additionally speak of growing an animated model of Recreation of Thrones for HBO Max.
As for the standing of his different animated tasks at HBO, Martin wrote on his weblog that “none of them have been greenlit but, however I feel we’re getting near taking the following step with a few them. When this final spherical of growth began a couple of years again, we had 4 concepts for animated exhibits, with some nice skills connected. Writers rooms and summits, define and scripts adopted sooner or later… however, alas, two of the unique tasks had been subsequently shelved.”
“These of you who’ve learn my experiences in years previous could recall that I favor to say “shelved” somewhat than “killed,” as nothing is ever useless for good in Hollywood, and a challenge placed on the shelf one yr may be taken off the shelf a couple of years later,” Martin continued. “I nonetheless have hopes of presenting the tales that we shelved in one other kind, maybe as graphic novels.”
“Will any of them make it to air? Occur? No approach to know,” he wrote. “Nothing is for certain in Hollywood.”
