



THR’s piece is well worth reading and is one of two they will be publishing. So what happened with Bloodmoon? Why did HBO decide that it was the ideal first Game of Thrones spinoff before abruptly deciding that it wasn’t? Well thanks to a sprawling feature about House of the Dragon’s origins in The Hollywood Reporter, we now have a better idea. Bloodmoon went so far as to shoot a pilot (with a reported budget in the $30-35 million range) but was unceremoniously canceled by HBO in the fall of 2019. The series would star Naomi Watts in the lead role and delve further into the white walkers and they’re arrival in an event known as The Long Night. The project, tentatively titled Bloodmoon, was to be shepherded by Jane Goldman (writer of Stardust and Kick-Ass) and it would cover the ancient era of Westeros known as The Age of Heroes.
