Every Game of Thrones Spinoff Ranked From Locked In to Concept Art

House of the Dragon season four arrives in 2028 and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season two is right behind it, but everything after that gets a lot less certain. I rank Aegon's Conquest, Nine Voyages, the Arya sequel, Ten Thousand Ships, and the Golden Empire from real production to a script sitting on somebody's desk.

I wanted to sort the entire Westeros slate by one question, which is whether the thing will actually exist. The two shows at the top are easy, and then it gets interesting fast. The Mad King is a stage play about Aerys and the events that kicked off Robert's Rebellion, and I am planning to be there when it hits the States. Aegon's Conquest is my big prediction, because Warner Bros. has a fantasy epic hole on the slate once Dune wraps with part three, and I think Aegon's story gets stretched across a trilogy to fill it. Nine Voyages excites me for a different reason, since Corlys Velaryon is the guy Westeros parents tell their kids about at bedtime and House of the Dragon barely touches those legends. Then the drop starts. The Arya sequel is the strongest of the long shots because HBO wants it, but it needs Maisie Williams and it needs to clear a bar the network keeps saying is extremely high. Ten Thousand Ships has been kicking around since 2021 with three writers in five years, which is Marvel's Blade territory, and it is a very expensive story built on names most viewers will not recognize. The Golden Empire is the one I am rooting for hardest, because a feudal China and Japan influenced corner of Essos with an HBO architecture budget is the only pitch here that would feel completely new.

Chapters

• 0:00 The Two Locks, House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
• 0:14 The Mad King Stage Play
• 0:29 Aegon's Conquest and the Empty Dune Slot
• 0:44 Nine Voyages and Why Corlys Deserves His Own Show
• 1:17 The Arya Sequel and the Maisie Williams Problem
• 1:33 Ten Thousand Ships Stuck in Development
• 2:04 The Golden Empire as Westeros Meets Shogun
• 2:36 What Is Actually Next

Key Takeaways

• House of the Dragon season four and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season two are the only projects that are genuinely locked.
• The Mad King is a real stage production covering Aerys and the fall of the Targaryens, with a US run on the way.
• Aegon's Conquest looks positioned to take the fantasy epic slot Dune vacates, and a trilogy is on the table.
• Nine Voyages would finally cover the Corlys Velaryon legends that House of the Dragon skips past.
• The Arya sequel has network interest but two real hurdles, casting and expectations.
• Ten Thousand Ships has burned through three writers in five years on a costly story with no recognizable house names attached.
• The Golden Empire is the only project on the slate that would look and feel unlike anything Westeros has done.

Quotes

"I'm gonna rank these from, like, actually going to happen to concept art on someone's desk."

"The way I like to look at Sea Snake is he's the character in Westeros that parents would tell their kids about at bedtime."

"It has, like Marvel's Blade stink all over it."

"I think HBO kind of wants to use Targaryen, Stark, or Lannister at the end of every name in any projects."

"This could be really different than anything else that they put out for Westeros, and 100% have my backing."

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