Game Of Thrones Why The Long Night Prequel Isnt Happening

Game Of Thrones: Why The Long Night Prequel Isn’t Happening

The Game of Thrones prequel series, unofficially known as The Long Night or Bloodmoon, is no longer moving forward at HBO. Here’s why.

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Game Of Thrones Why The Long Night Prequel Isnt Happening

The planned Game of Thrones prequel, tentatively known as The Long Night or Bloodmoon, is no longer happening at HBO, who have somewhat surprising decided not to order the pilot to series. The news of The Long Night’s cancellation came as WarnerMedia unveiled its HBO Max streaming service, and where it was also announced that another Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, would be moving to series.

The Long Night, or Bloodmoon as its working title called it, was the first Game of Thrones spin-off series to have a pilot episode ordered. Co-created by Jane Goldman and George R.R. Martin, with the former writing the script and expected to serve as showrunner of a prospective series, the show was going to be set thousands of years before the events of the main show, detailing the time known as the Age of Heroes, which then gave way to The Long Night – the fabled battle between the allied forced of the First Men and Children of the Forest against the White Walkers. It promised to answer a number of mysteries about the Game of Thrones antagonists, and had an impressive cast led by Naomi Watts, which makes the decision not to progress beyond the pilot all the more startling.

The core reason for HBO not moving forward with The Long Night is so that they can instead focus on the House Targaryen prequel, which was recently confirmed by Martin himself to have a pilot order, and has now been picked up to series. Co-created by Martin and Ryan Condal, it’ll also have Miguel Sapochnik (responsible for, among others, “Battle of the Bastards” and “The Winds of Winter”) as director for multiple episodes and co-showrunner alongside Condal. Telling the story of the Targaryen reign, using Martin’s Fire & Blood book as a basis, it’s easy to see why HBO prefer this to The Long Night: it offers more of the same. The Westeros here is just different enough while still recognizable, with most of the major houses in place, while feuding families and political machinations abound, and, of course, there’ll be lots and lots of dragons (and, er, incest).

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As HBO looks to not only build upon Game of Thrones incredible success, but also make a big splash with HBO Max, then a prequel focused on House Targaryen, rather than one that’s distanced from the show by thousands of years, feels like a surer bet in terms of delivering what the audience wants (or at least, what they think it wants). On top of that, there have also been reports that The Long Night faced a number of post-production issues, including a re-edited cut after a poor reception, and some problems while filming in Northern Ireland. Of course, that’s not uncommon: the first Game of Thrones pilot was infamously terrible, but on that occasion HBO decided to reshoot it and push forward. This time, with the safety net of another series, then that wasn’t a risk they needed to take.

House of the Dragon, which is set to build up to the Targaryen Civil War known as the Dance of the Dragons, is a splashier series that can more instantly have key Game of Thrones iconography in it (alongside dragons, there’ll also be the Iron Throne after Aegon’s Conquest of Westeros is shown), which is ultimately a better sell to WarnerMedia execs and general audiences alike, especially when The Long Night was having production problems.

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