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Over at Not a Blog, George R.R. Martin has extended his congratulations to playwright Eboni Booth for her recent Pulitzer Prize for her dramatic play, “Primary Trust”.
This may seem rather random, except GRRM goes on to reveal that she is the latest screenwriter to try and develop the story of Nymeria and the Ten Thousand Ships into a pilot for HBO:
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. We’re all very excited about this one… though we’re still trying to figure out how we’re going to pay for ten thousand ships, three hundred dragons, and those giant turtles.
Princess Nymeria as depicted by J.K. Drummond for The World of Ice and Fire
Fans will remember that Brian Helgeland was the first screenwriter to take a crack at the same material, during the time that HBO was basically holding a bake-off by putting give potential successors in development while the final season of Game of Thrones loomed. Back in April, Helgeland revealed details of what he had developed and revealed he was ready to return to it if HBO wanted.