George R. R. Martin would welcome a future Game of Thrones spin-off show. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Martin recommends that the HBO team tackles the Dunk & Egg novellas for a future adaptation project.
According to The Guardian, these novellas feature prequel stories that take place several decades before the time of Daenerys Targaryen, Tyrion Lannister, and Arya Stark. The nicknames “Dunk” and “Egg” refer to Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire Aegon Targaryen (the future King of Westeros and Daenerys’ grandfather).
Martin explains: “Each of the novellas could easily be done as a two-hour stand-alone movie for television; that would probably be the ideal way to do them, rather than as an ongoing weekly series. The Hedge Knight and its sequels are lighter [in tone] than A Song of Ice and Fire, more in the realm of action/adventure.”
At this point in time, the executives at HBO don’t have plans for a spin-off. Thus far, Martin has published a trio of official Dunk & Egg stories although he does intend to write more in the future. Penguin Random House collected the first three novellas for a compilation book called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms back in October 2015. (via Vanity Fair)