While A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is capturing the attention of Game of Thrones fans, Bloodmoon was the prequel to another franchise that could have been a draw.
It would focus on the dreaded Long Night and the rise of the White Walkers, which has become a source of terror in Game of Thrones.
However, it wasn’t good enough for HBO. Starring Naomi Watts, the network commissioned a pilot that explores the Age of Heroes, thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones.
Robert Greenblatt, the former chairman of WarnerMedia, previously told The Hollywood Reporter: “It wasn’t cluttered or terrible or anything.”
He continued, “It was very well produced and looked extraordinary. But it didn’t take me to the same place as the original series. It didn’t have that depth and richness that the original series pilot had.”
Moreover, Bloodmoon was also a creative challenge. First, George RR Martin, the creator of the lore, wrote less about the era, leaving writers to develop the rest of the story.
Moreover, the author himself acknowledged that the project was difficult. “’Bloodmoon’ was a very difficult assignment,” he previously told THR.
‘We are dealing with much more primitive people. There were no dragons yet. A lot of the pilot revolved around a wedding of a southern house to a northern house, and it got into the whole history of the White Walkers.”
Watts’ starrer Bloodmoon featured Jane Goldman, for which HBO spent $30 million on the pilot.
