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    Good news & bad news

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    ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel Pilot Starring Naomi Watts Not Going Forward At HBO

    By Dominic Patten, Nellie Andreeva
    October 29, 2019 11:56am


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    EXCLUSIVE: HBO has more Game of Thrones in the pipeline, but the prequel written by Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts is no longer happening.

    Showrunner Goldman has been emailing the cast and crew of the project to tell them that the pilot is dead, we hear. The development has not been confirmed by HBO.

    The prequel, created by the Kingsman scribe and George R. R. Martin, takes place thousands of years before the wars, romances and dragons of the Emilia Clarke- and Kit Harington-led GoT, which wrapped up its blockbuster eight-season run in May. Weaving in issues of race, power, intrigue and White Walkers, the Goldman-run prequel was given the pilot green light back in June 2018.

    It was picked among several GoT prequel scripts that had been commissioned by HBO. While the pilot, carrying heavy corporate expectations, was in editing, HBO in September gave an unofficial pilot green light to a second prequel project from Martin and Ryan Condal, which is set 300 years before the events in Game of Thrones and tracks the beginning of the end for House Targaryen.

    Word of the Watts-led pilot, penned by Goldman and directed by S.J. Clarkson, not going forward comes after a lengthy post-production, which included re-editing of the initial cut after it was not well received, and rumors about issues during filming in Northern Ireland.

    That is not altogether unheard of for a production of such scope — hardcore fans of the Emmy-winning mothership series will recollect that the $10 million pilot for the show created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss also had a rocky road. The duo and others have admitted that the original GoT pilot was a mess that required it to be re-shot almost entirely at great expense before HBO execs would give the go-ahead to take the project to series.

    News of the prequel’s demise comes as HBO owner WarnerMedia hopes to blow some dragon fire of its own today with an investors day presentation of its HBO Max streaming service on the Warner Bros lot in Burbank.

    Set to launch next spring, the AT&T-owned media company’s latest foray into the streaming wars has its eyes set on a prize almost as large as the conquest of the Seven Kingdoms. With AppleTV+ premiering on November 1 and Disney+ on November to crowd the space already occupied by Netflix, Amazon and the Disney controlled Hulu, plus NBCUniversal’s Peacock on the horizon for 2020 too, AT&T CEO Randell Stephenson declared yesterday that he sees big numbers for HBO Max in such a tight landscape.

    The telecom conglomerate boss said in a forecast issued Monday that HBO Max aims to have 50 million U.S. subscribers in its first five years. A desire for more Game of Thrones likely is partially fueling that ambition.
    Now the good news...
    HBO gives Game of Thrones Targaryen prequel a full series order
    By James Hibberd October 29, 2019 at 07:57 PM EDT

    As one Game of Thrones prequel dies, another rises from the ashes.

    HBO announced Tuesday that its GoT prequel project about the Targaryen civil war has officially received a full series order for 10 episodes.

    The spot-on title: House of the Dragon.

    Also announced: Emmy-winning GoT director Miguel Sapochnik will serve as co-showrunner and direct the pilot. Sapochnik directed acclaimed episodes such as “Battle of the *******s,” “Hardhome” and “The Long Night.”

    The announcement comes just hours after news broke that the network’s first GoT prequel project from showrunner Jane Goldman starring Naomi Watts was not moving forward.

    The new prequel was co-created by author George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal (Colony) — who will also be a showrunner on the series.

    A poster was also released with the tagline “Fire Will Reign”:


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    “The Game of Thrones universe is so rich with stories,” says Casey Bloys, president, HBO programming. “We look forward to exploring the origins of House Targaryen and the earlier days of Westeros along with Miguel, Ryan and George.”

    House of the Dragon is based on Martin’s 2019 book Fire & Blood, a history of House Targaryen that spans roughly 150 years. GoT writer-producer Bryan Cogman originally developed the project at the network. Like the other prequel, the story takes place long before the events in GoT, but not nearly as far back as the Goldman project (a couple hundred years before Ned Stark and Daenerys Targaryen, give or take). So Westeros will look different than it is in Game of Thrones, but not too dramatically different based on what Martin has written about the era.

    House of the Dragon also takes place during a time in Westeros that has plenty of dramatic established history penned by Martin to serve as a backbone for a story, whereas the pilot only had some vague references to build on.

    The events in the new series will eventually lead up to The Dance of the Dragons, a massive civil war in the Seven Kingdoms held between two rival branches of House Targaryen.

    The prequel order is the latest in a dramatic succession of Game of Thrones-related news over the last 24 hours. On Monday, Lucasfilm announced GoT showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss (who opted not to be involved in the prequels) are stepping away from their planned Star Wars trilogy. Then the Goldman project — which shot a full pilot in Northern Ireland this summer — was scrapped. Now HBO’s other prequel has lept from development into an official series order.

    The news was announced at WarnerMedia’s presentation to investors on Tuesday focused on the launch of its 2020 streaming service HBO Max.


    By James Hibberd
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    on track for a 2022 debut

    ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel ‘House Of The Dragon’ To Launch In 2022; HBO Boss On More ‘GOT’ & Pilot That Didn’t Go – TCA
    By Nellie Andreeva
    Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV
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    January 15, 2020 2:00pm



    House of the Dragon, HBO’s straight-to-series prequel to Game Of Thrones, is on track for a 2022 debut, HBO President of Programming Casey Bloys said in an interview with Deadline during TCA.

    “My guess is sometime in 2022,” he said about when the series will premiere, stressing that it is too early to be more specific than that.

    “They are starting writing,” Bloys said of the project from George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal.

    Written by Condal based on Martin’s Fire & Blood book, House of the Dragon is set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones and tells the story of House Targaryen, rich in the dragonlord ancestors of Daenerys.

    “Obviously it’s a big, complicated show,” Bloys said, adding that there is no casting news yet. GoT veteran Miguel Sapochnik and Condal have partnered as showrunners and serve as executive producers on House of the Dragon along with GoT co-executive producers Martin and Vince Gerardis.

    House of the Dragon was one of the four remaining GoT spinoffs in the works at HBO. The others are on hold, which could be indefinite — or temporary.

    “For me for right now, I think getting House of the Dragon on the air will be the number one priority,” Bloys said. “There are no other blinking green lights or anything like that. Sometime down the road who knows, but there are no immediate plans. We are all focusing on House of the Dragon.”

    House of the Dragon was the second Game Of Thrones prequel to receive a green light, following a project written by Jane Goldman, which went to pilot starring Naomi Watts, but was not picked up to series. Bloys explained to Deadline why.

    “In development, in pilots, sometimes things come together, sometimes they don’t,” he said. “One of the things I think Jane took on beautifully, which was a challenge, there was a lot more world creation because she set hers 8,000 years before the (mothership) show, so it required a lot more. That is a big swing. One of the things about House of Dragons, there is a text, there is a book so that made it a little bit more of a road map for a series order.”

    “I think Jane did a beautiful job, it was a big challenge but there was nothing that I would point to and say, oh, that one element did not work, just overall it did not quite gel. That’s one of the reasons when we started out to think about ‘Is there a life after Game of Thrones in terms of Game of Thrones’, we purposefully developed multiple projects. We would have been very lucky to do one pilot, have that pilot go and be a success but in development as you know, it takes a lot of tries to get it right. This is no different.”
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    Comic-Con Extended Trailer | House of the Dragon (HBO)

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    Golden Globes 2023

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    Best Motion Picture, Drama

    “Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)

    “Elvis” (Warner Bros.)

    “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)

    “Tár” (Focus Features)

    “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)

    Best Picture, Musical or Comedy

    “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures)

    “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)

    “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

    “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (Netflix)

    “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon)

    Best Director, Motion Picture

    James Cameron (“Avatar: The Way of Water”)

    Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

    Baz Luhrmann (“Elvis”)

    Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)

    Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”)

    Best Screenplay, Motion Picture

    “Tár” (Focus Features) — Todd Field

    “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) — Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

    “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures) — Martin McDonagh

    “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) — Sarah Polley

    “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) — Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushne

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

    Austin Butler (“Elvis”)

    Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”)

    Hugh Jackman (“The Son”)

    Bill Nighy (“Living”)

    Jeremy Pope (“The Inspection”)

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama

    Cate Blanchett (“Tár”)

    Olivia Colman (“Empire of Light”)

    Viola Davis (“The Woman King”)

    Ana de Armas (“Blonde”)

    Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”)

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

    Lesley Manville (“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”)

    Margot Robbie (“Babylon”)

    Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Menu”)

    Emma Thompson (“Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”)

    Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

    Diego Calva (“Babylon”)

    Daniel Craig (“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”)

    Adam Driver (“White Noise”)

    Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)

    Ralph Fiennes (“The Menu”)

    Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

    Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)

    Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)

    Brad Pitt (“Babylon”)

    Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

    Eddie Redmayne (“The Good Nurse”)

    Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture

    Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”)

    Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)

    Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

    Dolly De Leon (“Triangle of Sadness”)

    Carey Mulligan (“She Said”)

    Best Television Series, Drama

    “Better Call Saul” (AMC)

    “The Crown” (Netflix)

    “House of the Dragon” (HBO)

    “Ozark” (Netflix)

    “Severance” (Apple TV+)

    Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy

    “Abbott Elementary” (ABC)

    “The Bear” (FX)

    “Hacks” (HBO Max)

    “Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu)

    “Wednesday” (Netflix)

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama

    Jeff Bridges (“The Old Man”)

    Kevin Costner (“Yellowstone”)

    Diego Luna (“Andor”)

    Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”)

    Adam Scott (“Severance”)

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama

    Emma D’Arcy (“House of the Dragon”)

    Laura Linney (“Ozark”)

    Imelda Staunton (“The Crown”)

    Hilary Swank (“Alaska Daily”)

    Zendaya (“Euphoria”)

    Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy

    Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”)

    Kaley Cuoco (“The Flight Attendant”)

    Selena Gomez (“Only Murders in the Building”)

    Jenna Ortega (“Wednesday”)

    Jean Smart (“Hacks”)

    Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy

    Donald Glover (“Atlanta”)

    Bill Hader (“Barry”)

    Steve Martin (“Only Murders in the Building”)

    Martin Short (“Only Murders in the Building”)

    Jeremy Allen White (“The Bear”)

    Best Supporting Actor, Television

    John Lithgow (“The Old Man”)

    Jonathan Pryce (“The Crown”)

    John Turturro (“Severance”)

    Tyler James Williams (“Abbott Elementary”)

    Henry Winkler (“Barry”)

    Best Supporting Actress, Television

    Elizabeth Debicki (“The Crown”)

    Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”)

    Julia Garner (“Ozark”)

    Janelle James (“Abbott Elementary”)

    Sheryl Lee Ralph (“Abbott Elementary”)

    Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television

    “Black Bird” (Apple TV+)

    “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” (Netflix)

    “The Dropout” (Hulu)

    “Pam & Tommy” (Hulu)

    “The White Lotus” (HBO)

    Best Performance by an Actor, Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture made for Television

    Taron Egerton (“Black Bird”)

    Colin Firth (“The Staircase”)

    Andrew Garfield (“Under the Banner of Heaven”)

    Evan Peters (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”)

    Sebastian Stan (“Pam & Tommy”)

    Best Performance by an Actress, Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television

    Jessica Chastain (“George and Tammy”)

    Julia Garner (“Inventing Anna”)

    Lily James (“Pam & Tommy”)

    Julia Roberts (“Gaslit”)

    Amanda Seyfried (“The Dropout”)

    Best Performance by an Actress in Supporting Role, Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television

    Jennifer Coolidge (“The White Lotus”)

    Claire Danes (“Fleishman Is in Trouble”)

    Daisy Edgar-Jones (“Under the Banner of Heaven”)

    Niecy Nash-Betts (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”)

    Aubrey Plaza (“The White Lotus”)

    Best Performance by an Actor in Supporting Role, Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television

    F. Murray Abraham (“The White Lotus”)

    Domhnall Gleeson (“The Patient”)

    Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”)

    Richard Jenkins (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”)

    Seth Rogen (“Pam & Tommy”)

    Best Original Score, Motion Picture

    “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures) — Carter Burwell

    “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix) — Alexandre Desplat

    “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) — Hildur Guðnadóttir

    “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures) — Justin Hurwitz

    “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) — John Williams

    Best Picture, Non-English Language

    “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany)

    “Argentina, 1985” (Argentina)

    “Close” (Belgium)

    “Decision to Leave” (South Korea)

    “RRR” (India)

    Best Original Song, Motion Picture

    “Carolina” from “Where the Crawdads Sing” (Sony Pictures) — Taylor Swift

    “Ciao Papa” from “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix) — Roeben Katz, Guillermo del Toro

    “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures) — Lady Gaga, BloodPop

    “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios) — Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler

    “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR” (Variance Films) — Kala Bhairava, M. M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj

    Best Motion Picture, Animated

    “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix)

    “Inu-Oh” (GKIDS)

    “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” (A24)

    “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (DreamWorks Animation)

    “Turning Red” (Pixar)
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