HBO Announces 'Game of Thrones' Prequel

HBO on Friday gave go-ahead to the prequel of its award-winning television series “Game of Thrones.”

As many as five potential spinoff projects are expected in the coming years.

The HBO said it has already ordered a pilot project that would show events took thousands of years before ‘Game of Thrones.’

The network promises to order a full TV series if the pilot is a hit.

The untitled plot for the prequel is co-created by British screenwriter Jane Goldman and R.R. Martin – author of “A Song of Ice and Fire” the novel that basis for the “Game of Thrones” television series, the statement added.

The network has announced the prequel when the fans were impatiently waiting for the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones,” due in 2019.

The eighth season of the biggest ever hit with some 30 million viewers was scheduled for June 2018, but due to an apparent plot-leak, was delayed until 2019.

HBO has not given any timescale for airing the prequel, but the executives have revealed any spinoff won’t be aired until at least a year after the final season of “Game of Thrones” in 2019.