

There’s not much more I can tell you, not until HBO gives me a green light." his was not an official announcement from HBO, so it seems there was another leak. SNOW has been in development almost as long as the other three, but for whatever reason it was never announced and it never leaked… until now. "Yes, there is a Jon Snow show in development.

With the dragon out of the bag, Martin felt compelled to provide a comment as he'd been inundated with requests to do so. He can only state that it wasn't him who had leaked that information and imagines we'll never know who it was, but in any case, the news is out. In his blog post, Martin explains that the news of the spinoff is indeed true, but also admitted that the news had leaked prematurely. There wasn't much else that was revealed about the project just yet, but in a new post on his blog, Martin revealed that the series is currently in the works under the working title of Snow and that he will personally be involved with its development. It was recently revealed that Kit Harington would return as Jon Snow in a new series that serves as a follow-up to Game of Thrones, picking up after the events of the hit show's controversial final season. Martin has shared some new details about the next planned television series. (Which, thank the seven gods.Game of Thrones author George R. Martin also confirmed that his books will differ a bit from the TV show ending.

"And yes, there will be unicorns… of a sort…" he continued. "There are characters who never made it onto the screen at all, and others who died in the show but still live in the books… so if nothing else, the readers will learn what happened to Jeyne Poole, Lady Stoneheart, Penny and her pig, Skahaz Shavepate, Arianne Martell, Darkstar, Victarion Greyjoy, Ser Garlan the Gallant, Aegon VI, and a myriad of other characters both great and small that viewers of the show never had the chance to meet," Martin wrote in this earlier post. Speaking of his last two novels (which he said will fill "3,000 manuscript pages"), Martin wrote that characters (and animals!!!) from the books that didn't make it into the HBO adaptation (or were killed off) will cause a "butterfly effect," aka a few seemingly minor changes will result in huge differences in plot down the line. The mastermind behind the Game of Thrones and the A Song of Ice and Fire series last gave an update about The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring in May of this year.
