George R.R. Martin Updates Fans On Animated Projects At HBO: “We Have Moved Nine Voyages Over From Live Action to Animation”

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George R.R. Martin spent his New Year’s Eve updating fans on his animated projects that will be set in the world of A Song of Ice & Fire.

He also had one big change to share regarding Nine Voyages, the Game of Thrones spinoff about the great voyages at sea made by Corlys Velaryon aboard the Sea Snake ship. “We have moved Nine Voyages,our series about the legendary voyages of the Sea Snake, over from live action to animation,” Martin wrote on his personal blog. “A move I support fully.

Budgetary constraints would likely have made a live action version prohibitively expensive, what with half the show taking place at sea, and the necessity of creating a different port every week, from Driftmark to Lys to the Basilisk Isles to Volantis to Qarth to… well, on and on and on.

There’s a whole world out there. And we have a lot better chance of showing it all with animation. So we now have three animated projects underway.” Back in 2021, Deadline reported that HBO was looking to expand its GOT universe by developing a trio of ideas for new projects.