Hold onto your butts, and I mean both your own and the butts you hold near and dear on Game of Thrones, because there may potentially be a spinoff prequel series after the end of season eight.
Last night at the Emmy's, reporters spoke with George R.R. Martin himself, who said he had thousands of pages of backstory that would make for one stellar spinoff, should HBO be interested. And naturally, HBO is very, very interested in keeping the series alive, considering it just shattered the Emmy record for a scripted series.
The only problem: Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss aren't in to, you know, show run. And who can blame them? Eight seasons is a lot for people who produce and write the whole thing.
We're still holding out hope, though. With a world so popular as Westeros, someone has to be down to produce a prequel series - perhaps one following Martin's Tales of Dunk and Egg? Only time will tell, but we'll be waiting patiently while we drink our mead.
