Just days before the premiere of Season Two of House of the Dragon, we’ve gotten an update from George R.R. Martin about the status of another Game of Thrones spinoff.
The project in question is Ten Thousand Ships, a series based on how Princess Nymeria takes her surviving people (in ten thousand ships) from Essos to Dorne after their defeat in the Second Spice War. The events take place about a thousand years before the events of Game of Thrones.
The project has had its own odyssey. Back in 2021, Amanda Segel (Helstrom, Person of Interest) was hired to write the show. Those scripts apparently weren’t fruitful, nor was the one written by Brian Hegland, who told Inverse that his story was “kind of like Ray Harryhausen’s Sinbad films mixed with The Odyssey. In a way, Nymeria is Odysseus, but instead of a 12-person crew, she’s responsible for every citizen in this floating city-state.”
On his blog yesterday, however, Martin shared that there’s a new writer on board: Pulitzer Prize winner Eboni Booth. “She’s an amazingly talented young playwright, and a joy to work with; when not writing and producing her prize-winning plays on- and off-Broadway, she has been kept busy by me and HBO, working on a new pilot for TEN THOUSAND SHIPS, a GAME OF THRONES spinoff about Nymeria and the Rhoynar,” Martin wrote. “We’re all very excited about this one… though we’re still trying to figure out how we’re going to pay for ten thousand ships, three hundred dragons, and those giant turtles.”
Will this attempt be the one that sticks? It’s too early to tell, but it looks like this project is still in the works and might yet make its way to HBO sometime in the future.
