Game Of Thrones prequel 10,000 Ships has a writer, might really get made

The writer in question is Amanda Segel, an executive producer on Person Of Interest and Hulu’s Helstrom, in addition to work on The Good Wife and the Mist TV show. Also, she apparently worked on a TV adaptation of Ubisoft’s deeply troubled Skull And Bones pirate video game, which has been in development for a really long time but still hasn’t come out. As for 10,000 Ships, here’s Deadline’s version of the premise, which is absolutely loaded with Game Of Thrones lore: “The drama is expected to follow the journey made by warrior queen Princess Nymeria and the surviving members of the Rhoynars, who traveled from Essos to Dorne following their defeat by the Valyrian Freehold in the Second Spice War.”

Holy cow, those are some words. If none of that is clear to you, that premise would put it about 1,000 years before the stuff that happens in the original Game Of Thrones. Historical figures that get referenced in the old show (like Nymeria) will show up, but there probably won’t be too many familiar things beyond that and all of the usual Westeros locations and general fantasy-themed death and misery.