'Game of Thrones' prequel: George R.R. Martin reveals new details about the old Westeros GOT
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architect responsible for creating the world of Westeros and beyond, has opened up with new details on what to expect from executive producer Jane Goldman'sprequel, currently in production on a pilot episode. It was already known that the untitled successor series would take place thousands of years before the era of Jon Snow , Daenerys Targaryen , Arya Stark and the others — but now, Martin has a few additional details to share.
What's more, the North's ancient nemeses will be along for the ride as well, according to Martin: "Obviously the White Walkers are here — or as they're called in my books, The Others — and that will be an aspect of it." Whether the audience's appetite for more White Walker action is still active after their straightforward defeat in "The Long Night," however, remains another question entirely.
House Stark may be present, but the Lannisters? Not so much. Martin notes that Casterly Rock, the ancestral home of Cersei , Tyrion and Jaime , will be an active part of thesuccessor series, but with House Casterly in charge. In Martin's established lore, a legendary trickster named Lann the Clever swindles the Casterly family and wins the Rock, establishing House Lannister for generations to come.
"We talk about the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros; there were Seven Kingdoms at the time of Aegon’s Conquest," says Martin. "But if you go back further then there are nine kingdoms, and 12 kingdoms, and eventually you get back to where there are a hundred kingdoms — petty kingdoms — and that’s the era we’re talking about here."prequel stars Josh Whitehouse, Naomi Ackie, Denise Gough, Jamie Campbell Bower and Miranda Richardson.
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