The fictional world of Westeros won't disappear after the mythical saga, Game of Thrones (GoT) wraps its eight season run in 2019.

HBO has given a pilot order to a yet-untitled prequel, created by author George RR Martin and screenwriter Jane Goldman. The series will be set way back in Westeros' history, thousands of years before the events of GoT.

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