HBO found the “broken Jon Snow” idea too much of a bummer and eventually pushed it aside. Yet in recent days, sources say a new writer (Quoc Dang Tran from Drops of God) has come aboard to revive the sequel idea. While the story is still being fleshed out, one possibility is shifting the drama to the Mediterranean-like land of Essos and adding another hugely popular legacy character — Arya Stark (who was played by Maisie Williams in Thrones).
This is very early development, however, and HBO is naturally being quite cautious about handling this one. “We are very interested and excited by the prospect of a sequel but also keenly aware of how high the bar of execution needs to be,” one insider says. No actors are yet on board, and signing Harington, in particular, would likely prove quite difficult. Just recently, the actor declared he doesn’t “want to go anywhere near” Jon Snow again.
by tyrion2024
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Just let it go. The spin off shows taking places at different points in history are great. Just keep that up.
There’s so much they could do with ASOIAF why do this. It’ll be ass.
I won’t have high hopes for any spin-off that doesn’t have a solid source material foundation.
It would be bad, but I would watch the shit out of a “Arya Stark travels west from Westeros” show.
Yeah no thanks, we’ve already seen what happens when they don’t have any source material to pull from.
Drops of God is super underrated so this is interesting for sure
Until she’s 90.
Just do an Arya spinoff. No need to drag in Jon Snow.
She’s popular, separated from the rest of the characters, and set up to go on more adventures.
It’s a little late at this point, but could still work under the right conditions.
Well, I’m pretty sure Maisie Williams is free.
Is the implication that in setting out to explore the mysterious lands west of Westeros she just loops back around and winds up in Essos? Wandering around like Christopher Columbus thinking she’s somewhere completely fucking different
Unless they have a truly great story idea that actually makes sense. Nobody should be moving forward with this. People are exhausted of IP shoehorning in stories that don’t make sense within the continuity.