With the hype train fully restarted for House of the Dragon Season 2 thanks to the first footage and some early praise from George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones fans are able to earnestly look forward to returning to the fantastical universe. Beyond HOTD, multiple other spinoffs are in varying stages of development through HBO, though without a whole lot of updates to hinge expectations on.
But with his final blog post of 2023, Martin actually did provide the latest on the previously revealed animated projects. Amusingly enough, the reveal just so happened to be buried in heaping praise for one of Netflix’s most recent animated shows, the highly acclaimed Blue Eye Samurai. (A bit more on that lower.) With the topic of animation at hand, Martin then shared this about the current state of upcoming Game of Thrones projects outside of live-action:
