Our minds might be on all things "House of the Dragon" season 2 — which you can expect sometime in August 2024, per series star Matt Smith — but years before we met Smith's Daemon Targaryen, Emma D'Arcy's Rhaenyra Targaryen and Olivia Cooke's Alicent Hightower, there was actually an entirely different "Game of Thrones" prequel series in the works.
Back in June 2018, HBO ordered a pilot for a prequel from British screenwriter-producer Jane Goldman ("Kick-Ass", "Kingsman: The Secret Service"), with George R. R. Martin — the iconic author behind "A Song of Ice and Fire," the novel series on which both "Game of Thrones" and "House of the Dragon" are based — attached as a co-producer.
