The writers room of a recently ordered Game Of Thrones prequel series has been shut down “for the duration” amid the ongoing Hollywood strike, George RR Martin has said. The veteran US author said that despite not being in Los Angeles to join the picket lines, he was offering his “full and complete and unequivocal” support of the strikers.
The strike began last week after more than 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) stopped working when their contract expired. Among the major productions and ceremonies affected by the strike is A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms, a new HBO prequel spin-off based on Martin’s The Hedge Knight novella series.
It follows the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Egg, in a period where the Iron Throne is still under Targaryen rule, before the events of the original Game Of Thrones series. In a blog post on Sunday, Martin said that since starting in the industry in 1986, he had “never seen the Guild so united as it is now”.
