There's no shortage of upcoming Game of Thrones movies and TV shows on the way to our screens – and now we have even more reason to be excited about a feature-length film.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms may have wrapped up its first season... but season 2 is currently in production and we might only have to wait until 2027 for it to hit our screens. In the meantime, we're due to return to Westeros in a matter of months House of the Dragon season 3. On top of that, there's been a bit more movement surrounding that previously announced Game of Thrones movie... which is definitely in development at Warner Bros.
Upcoming Game of Thrones movies and shows in 2026
House of the Dragon season 3
Status: Post-production
Release date: Summer 2026
House of the Dragon season 3 is one of the most anticipated new TV shows on the way. Since the first outing of the prequel series following the Targaryens' family civil war of Blacks vs. Greens, viewers have been hooked. So it makes sense that HBO Max would have another outing of the series in the pipeline for us.
Season 3 will kick off with a bang, as there have been reports of the first episode covering The Battle of the Gullet from George RR Martin's book 'Fire & Blood'. Filming has wrapped, and a release window of summer 2026 has been confirmed. House of the Dragon season 4 has also been greenlit, so don't expect this show to disappear anytime soon.
Upcoming Game of Thrones movies and shows TBC
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2
Status: Filming
Release date: TBC
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 is well on its way to our screens. Filming kicked off in December 2025, before season 1 had even aired, and we can expect the action to take us away from Ashford Meadow and onto Dorne as hedge knight Dunk and his new squire Egg continue their adventures.
Each season of the Game of Thrones prequel is set to be based on one of George R.R. Martin's novellas, so season 2 will adapt The Sworn Sword. With each novella being a standalone story, we can expect a new cast of supporting characters to be introduced next season – but showrunner Ira Parker says never say never to the return of some familiar faces.
Aegon's Conquest
Status: In development
Release date: TBC
Hardly anything is known about this particular spin-off. What we do know, though, is that The Batman 2 writer Mattson Tomlin is set to pen the project. According to a report, it's also being developed as both a show and a movie.
While plot details haven't been clarified just yet, we can take some cues from Martin's source material. Aegon's Conquest is pretty much the first event to happen on the Game of Thrones timeline, kickstarting the entire saga.
After foreseeing the Doom of Valyria, Aegon took his dragons and sister-wives Rhaenys and Visenya and flew to conquer Westeros (as his moniker suggests). This established the long, long Targaryen dynasty, which ultimately came to an end with Robert's Rebellion, which happens immediately before the events of the original Game of Thrones show. So, this series would be a prequel to pretty much everything – but there have been no updates on it since it was first reported to be in the works in 2024.
Snow
Status: In development
Release date: TBC
The scrapped Jon Snow Game of Thrones spin-off that would have been a sequel show starring Kit Harington might be back in development – and Arya Stark might make a comeback, too.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the first incarnation of the spin-off would have seen Jon Snow living north of the Wall with PTSD, without his direwolf Ghost or his sword Longclaw. Jon Snow would've been a broken man who built cabins then burned them down. Harington also apparently wanted his iconic character to die.
According to the publication, HBO unsurprisingly found this too downbeat, so it was put aside. But, reportedly, Drops of God's Quoc Dang Tran has recently joined the project for a fresh take. Nothing is set for definite, but there is a chance of the story taking place in Essos, and Arya might return. Whether this ends up happening, and whether Kit Harington or Maisie Williams return, remains to be seen.
The Sea Snake/Nine Voyages
Status: In development
Release date: TBC
This particular spin-off would follow the adventures of the Sea Snake, AKA Corlys Velaryon. He was introduced to live-action in House of the Dragon season 1, played by Steve Toussaint. However, the show has been switched from live-action to animation, as revealed by Martin himself on his Not a Blog page in 2023. "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."
As for the other two animated projects, it's not entirely clear what they are, or whether they're still going ahead (though we assume one is the Yi Ti animated show titled The Golden Empire). And, like many projects on this list, updates on this project have been scarce.
Ten Thousand Ships
Status: In development
Release date: TBC
Ten Thousand Ships will follow Nymeria, the historical figure Arya named her Direwolf after way back at the start of Game of Thrones. After Nymeria's home of Rhoyne was conquered, Nymeria crossed the ocean to settle in Dorne, marrying Lord Mors Martell (of the same House Martell as the show) and ruling as Princess. Brian Helgeland was originally on board to write the series, but HBO didn't pick up his version. "It came out great, but I think they felt the period of my show was too far removed from the pillars of the original. That’s why it hasn’t been picked up yet, but nothing is ever dead," he told Inverse.
But, Martin revealed in 2024 that a new pilot was in the works, written by Eboni Booth. "She’s an amazingly talented young playwright, and a joy to work with; when not writing and producing her prize-winning plays on- and off-Broadway, she has been kept busy by me and HBO, working on a new pilot for TEN THOUSAND SHIPS, a GAME OF THRONES spinoff about Nymeria and the Rhoynar. We're all very excited about this one… though we're still trying to figure out how we're going to pay for ten thousand ships, three hundred dragons, and those giant turtles," he wrote.
The Game of Thrones movie
Status: In development
Release date: TBC
The Hollywood Reporter said back in October 2024 that "Warner Bros. has been quietly developing at least one film set in George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy universe." But the project is so early in development that there is no writer, no cast, and no director attached, so don't expect updates on this for a long while yet. This also might just be the Aegon's Conquest movie, though it's not totally clear.
In 2026, a new report confirmed that a movie is indeed in the works, and that it 'may' focus on Aegon. However, the previously announced Aegon's Conquest project was said to have Matt Tomlinson attached as writer (as we stated above), whereas this officially announced film is being penned by Andor scribe Beau Willimon. There is no confirmation yet as to whether the feature-length film and Aegon's Conquest are the same project... so we'll keep them in separate sections for now.
The Golden Empire
Status: In development
Release date: TBC
The Golden Empire is another show we know hardly anything about, but Martin has spoken about it on his Not a Blog page. "Over on the animated side… well, I am not allowed to talk about most of what’s happening, except to say that things are moving very fast, and I love love love some of the concept art I am seeing," he wrote in 2022. "And.. wait, come to think of it, the news leaked several months ago that one of the animated shows would be set in Yi Ti. That's true.
Our working title is THE GOLDEN EMPIRE, and we have a great young writer on that one too, and I think the art and animation is just going to be beautiful. I would tell you more if I could. I don't think I can say a word about the other animated shows. Not yet." Yi Ti is an area we've never seen in the shows before, which lies to the east of Quarth.
Canceled Game of Thrones spin-offs
There have been plenty of Game of Thrones spin-offs that were announced and then cruelly taken from us. So to keep track of all the movies and shows that are no longer with us, we've listed all the now-canceled Game of Thrones spin-offs down below:
- Flea Bottom
- Empire of Ash/a Doom of Valyria spinoff
- Bloodmoon
That's a wrap on upcoming Game of Thrones movies and TV shows. For more on epic fantasy, check out our guide to The Rings of Power season 3. Or check out our list of the best HBO Max shows to watch right now.
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