"Game Of Thrones" creator George R.R. Martin is in the process of bringing the show back to life with a live stage adaptation planned for Broadway, London's West End, and Australia, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.
Set to debut in 2023, the play will revive some of fans' favorite characters like Ned Stark & Jaime Lannister. It will take place during a major moment in the history of Westeros, The Great Tourney at Harrenhal, which happens 16 years before the events of "Game Of Thrones."
Martin is working with producers Simon Painter and Tim Lawson, playwright Duncan MacMillan, and director Dominic Cooke on the show. While HBO isn't involved with this play, Martin recently agreed to a five-year deal to produce "Game Of Thrones" content for the service.
The play's official description reads, "The play will for the first time take audiences deeper behind the scenes of a landmark event that previously was shrouded in mystery."
It continues, "Featuring many of the most iconic and well-known characters from the series, the production will boast a story centered around love, vengeance, madness, and the dangers of dealing in prophecy, in the process revealing secrets and lies that have only been hinted at until now."
“The seeds of war are often planted in times of peace,” Martin said in a statement. “Few in Westeros knew the carnage to come when highborn and smallfolk alike gathered at Harrenhal to watch the finest knights of the realm compete in a great tourney, during the Year of the False Spring. It is a tourney oft referred during HBO's Game of Thrones, and in my novels, A Song of Ice & Fire … and now, at last, we can tell the whole story... on the stage.”
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