On March 2, 2010, HBO handed out the greenlight to an ambitious fantasy project. This wasn’t for a movie series, either, which was more popular at the time. Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin became a TV series, and it’s since spawned multiple spinoffs, and remains a topic of discussion to this day.
In 2007, HBO acquired the rights to Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. There were four books to the series at the time — with A Dance with Dragons published a year later — and there was the promise of more to come. From there, it took a whopping three years to get the series to a point where it could be greenlit, and even then, it wasn’t the most talked-about show on the market.
Ned Stark’s death was known by book fans, and they were ready for it. Those who hadn’t read the books were certainly not expecting to see the main protagonist of the first season to be killed off so quickly. This could have tanked the show, and instead, everyone rallied around it, praising it for the risk that it took.
A Universe That Has Expanded Into a Franchise
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is based on The Hedge Knight, the first book in the Dunk and Egg stories, and there is more of that to come. While there have been a few Game of Thrones universe shows scrapped, it’s clear that there is still a thirst for it, and it’s all thanks to HBO’s initial risk 16 years ago.
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