Game of Thrones season 9 is not coming out in January 2022
By WiC Staff
The eighth season of Game of Thrones aired in 2019, and while it answered a ton of the big questions posed over the course of the series, it did leave some threads hanging. What happens to Jon Snow now that he’s back at the Night’s Watch? How well does Sansa rule the North? And perhaps most intriguingly, what does Arya find as she sails west of Westeros?
For now, HBO has no plans to answer these questions with a ninth season of the show, not in January of 2022 nor in any other month in the foreseeable future. This doesn’t mean it couldn’t ever follow up. Other shows have returned years after their original “endings,” like Dexter with Dexter: New Blood on Showtime. But it’ll probably be a long while before we see a direct sequel to Game of Thrones, if we ever do.
However, that doesn’t mean HBO isn’t returning to Westeros…
HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon premieres this year
HBO is currently hard at work on House of the Dragon, a Game of Thrones prequel series that takes place some 200 years before the original show. It will tell the story of the Dance of the Dragons, a brutal civil fought between rival factions of the Targaryen family.
The story is juicy, violent, complex and very much in the mold of the original series; Game of Thrones fans should feel right at home. We don’t know when exactly it will premiere on HBO (and HBO Max) but we know it’s coming sometime in 2022.
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