Eboni Booth Working On Previously Scrapped ‘Game Of Thrones’ Spinoff ‘Ten Thousand Ships’ At HBO, George R.R. Martin Says
deadline.comGame of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin has revealed that the previously scrapped spinoff Ten Thousand Ships is being revived, and Eboni Booth is on board for the pilot.
The author took to his blog to congratulate Booth on winning a Pulitzer Prize for her play Primary Truth and dropped the news that she was working on the prequel series. “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.” Ten Thousand Ships was one of the potential spinoffs HBO was developing to follow Game of Thrones.
Earlier this year, writer Brian Helgeland revealed he had been working on a script, which “came out great.” “It 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,” he said in an interview with Inverse.
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