George RR Martin, the author of the series of novels from which the hit saga "Game of Thrones" is drawn, has signed a five-year agreement with the HBO television channel.

There will develop new content, some of which could feature protagonists from the universe of the cult series. 

This is news that will delight

Game of Thrones

fans

.

George RR Martin, the father of the series universe, signed a five-year agreement with the HBO television channel to develop "new content", which could include new adventures featuring heroes and dragons in the series. world of Westeros.

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Martin, whose series of novels

of Thrones,

 resulted in the successful series, is already at work on an adaptation of a prelude to the series,

House of the Dragon

, which takes place 300 years earlier.

The spinoff series is announced for 2022.

"Game of Thrones" has garnered 59 Emmy Awards

The WarnerMedia group, which owns HBO, announced Monday in a statement to AFP that the author had signed "a global contract for a period of five years" to "develop content for HBO and HBO Max", service of video on demand from the channel.

The press release does not however specify whether this contract relates to other projects located in the universe of

Game of Thrones.

But the saga has been so successful around the world, with 59 Emmy Awards to its chase chart in the span of eight seasons, that spinoff series seem inevitable.

According to the specialist magazine

Hollywood Reporter

, the contract worth tens of millions of dollars would include the story of the warrior queen Nymeria, supposed to have reigned a millennium before the events of

Game of Thrones,

 whose working title would be

10,000 Ships

.

Several projects under study

Among the projects under study in the world of Westeros would also include

9 Voyages

, by the creators of the historical series

Rome

, and a dark tale set in a sordid and infamous district of the city of Port-Réal,

Culpucier, 

( "Fleabottom" in original version).

A television series adapted from

Tales of Dunk and Egg

, a collection of short stories published by George RR Martin about a knight errant and his squire, is also the subject of persistent rumors.