To say that Game of Thrones’ final season was divisive amongst fans is the biggest understatement of 2019, but HBO President Casey Bloys still isn’t sweating the audience backlash. In fact, he says that the response to the events of the final season hasn’t changed the way the network is approaching the upcoming prequel series “at all” — which does make sense, if you consider that the new series has an entirely different creative team.
The new series, which may or may not be called The Longest Night, comes from a concept that X-Men: First Class’ Jane Goldman developed with George R.R. Martin. Set 5,000 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the new series doesn’t creatively involve the flagship series’ showrunners David Benioff or D.B. Weiss, or executive producer Bryan Cogman, who is off working on Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series. (Though Cogman was originally conceptualizing a spinoff series, HBO did not move forward with it.)
Source: IGN.com HBO Boss: GoT Fan Backlash Hasn't Affected the Prequel 'At All'