Weiss when they got the job to adapt Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels.
Personally, I have never seen an episode of any of the shows that Segel has worked on, but even though she does not have extensive experience in the fantasy genre, neither did original Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. A thousand years later, Nymeria's adventures would inspire a young Arya Stark to name her direwolf after the famed warrior queen. After impressing a Martell on the battlefield, Nymeria married into the influential Martell family and helped turn Dorne into a kingdom to be reckoned with. Martin's sprawling histories of his fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, Nymeria brought 10,000 ships with her to Dorne, and burned all 10,000 of them upon landing so no one could retreat from this new land.
HBO has found a writer for another of its Game of Thrones spinoffs.Īmanda Segel, whose credits include The Good Wife and Person of Interest, is set to write 10,000 Ships, a series set about a thousand years before the events of the flagship show and which focuses on Princess Nymeria and her journey to Dorne.ĭeadline reports that Segel, who has also written for Without a Trace, Nikita, The Mist, Shooter, and Marvel's Hulu series Helstrom, will write 10,000 Ships, a show that "is expected to follow the journey made by warrior queen Princess Nymeria and the surviving members of the Rhoynars, who travelled from Essos to Dorne following their defeat by the Valyrian Freehold in the Second Spice War."Īs relayed in author George R.R.