“Game of Thrones” News Update and Spoilers: George R.R. Martin Considering TV Spin-off Ideas

The wildly popular fantasy drama of HBO, "Game of Thrones" is all set to enter its sixth season on April 24 and it is very likely that the series will be wrapped up in the next two seasons.

Show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have hinted at the end of the show. According to reports, the duo believes that the next two seasons will altogether have only 13 episodes, as opposed to ten episodes which constituted each of the five seasons as well as the sixth, scheduled to air soon. And hence, it is clear that the end of the epic HBO series is near.

But end is not coming for George R.R. Martin who has been outpaced by HBO in the run-up to the sixth installment of "A Game of Ice and Fire". The author has teased about spin-offs based on the TV series and said that there is no lack of material.

Referring to The Naked City- a television show he watched with great interest as a kid, Martin told EW, that a voice-over would accompany the end of the show saying that there are eight million stories in the naked city and this was one of them.

So, he believes, in the same breath that Westeros too has eight million stories and much more in Essos and faraway lands. There is a whole world thriving with stories that yearn to be told, but only if HBO takes an interest.

According to reports, Martin intends to follow a different adaptation direction and the follow-up would be an animated version of his Dunk & Egg Stories.

Notably, Dunk & Egg is the story of Ser Duncan the Tall, a knight and his squire Egg who later becomes known as King Aegon V Targaryen of Westeros. As per Martin, there are only three novellas with the potential to be made into two-hour standalone movies and they have a markedly different comic tone as opposed to the grim genre of "A Game of Ice and Fire".