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‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff ‘Ten Thousand Ships’ Back in the Works After Being Scrapped, Says George R. R. Martin


According to George R. R. Martin, Eboni Booth is writing a new pilot for 'Ten Thousand Ships,' the 'Game of Thrones' spinoff HBO previously scrapped.

In a blog post on Tuesday, the author and producer said that playwright Eboni Booth is “working on a new pilot” for “Ten Thousand Ships,” a series that screenwriter Bryan Helgeland recently said he’d been attached to before HBO scrapped the project. Congratulating Booth for her recent Pulitzer Prize win, Martin wrote, “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. In an April interview with Inverse, Helgeland said his “Ten Thousand Ships” script “came out great, but I think they felt the period of my show was too far removed from the pillars of the original.

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