Westeros

Deadline has a detailed report concerning everything said in a recent interview by HBO’s Head of Drama Series & Films, Francesca Orsi, regarding the Game of Thrones franchise. Besides the usual update on House of the Dragon and its massive opening for season 3 (cameras start rolling in March, according to reports), Orsi reveals that HBO’s so bullish on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms that if they renew it they may well order two seasons to be filmed back-to-back.

Orsi also confirmed that George R.R. Martin has provided feedback internally on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms indicating that he loves it, in line with his effusive remarks last month.

Finally, Orsi notes that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a more “intimate” production—it’s certainly smaller in scale than its predecessor shows—but there are other spinoffs in the works, and that one is “very promising” that is “still the Targaryen line” (we’re going to guess this is Mattson Tomlin’s Aegon’s Conquest that has been in development for the last year). But apparently all the other spinoff ideas are “very big budget” ideas.