"Game of Thrones" fans who've always wanted to dig deeper into Robert's Rebellion or the history of the Targaryens may soon be in luck -- HBO has taken the first step towards a possible spinoff.
With only two more seasons remaining of the epic television series, HBO has secured four writers to begin exploring multiple "Game of Thrones" spinoff ideas.
All of the newly-hired writers are successful in their own right -- Max Borenstein (“Kong: Skull Island”), Jane Goldman (“Kingsman: The Golden Circle”), Brian Helgeland (“Legend”), and Carly Wray (“Mad Men,” “The Leftovers”). Wray and Goldman will each be collaborating with novelist George R. R. Martin, the author of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" best-selling fantasy novels from which the HBO series is adapted, to develop their ideas.
But don't look for anything to start airing immediately after the original series' much-anticipated conclusion next year.
“We’ll take as much or as little time as the writers need and, as with all our development, we will evaluate what we have when the scripts are in,” a spokesperson said.
The upcoming seven-episode Season 7 will premiere July 16, much later in the year than usual, due to the producers' desire to film in certain weather. (Is that perhaps because "Winter" has finally come?).
But for those fans that simply can't get enough of Martin's dramatic, epic fantasy tale, the announcement of a spinoff possibility is seriously good news. It seems that nobody's ready to say good-bye just yet.
