Goodbye Iron Throne, hello One Ring.Game of Throneswriter and executive-producerBryan Cogmanhas joined Amazon’sLord of the Ringsseries as a consultant to writersJD PayneandPatrick McKay, according toVariety.
This is someextremelyspicy news in the wake of Thrones' divisive series finale, considering how nicely it mirrors Cogman’s rise up the ranks on HBO’s fantasy series. Cogman famously started out as an assistant to GOT showrunnersDavid BenioffandD.B. Weiss, who quickly found out he had an encyclopedic knowledge ofGeorge R.R. Martin’sA Song of Ice and Firesource material. Cogman went on to write some of the best episodes over the show’s run, always favoring un-flashy, talk-heavy chapters like season 1’s “Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things” and season 3’s “Kissed by Fire.”
The writer also penned the most (and arguably theonly) critically acclaimed episode ofGame of Thrones' final season, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”, which saw Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) bestow knighthood on Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) on the drunken, depressing eve of “The Long Night”. In a recentVanity Fair profile, Coster-Walda called Cogman a “walking encyclopedia,” but the highest praise came from Martin himself.
“Dave and Dan—even though there were two of them, there really needed to be three," theSong of Ice and Fireauthor said. “Bryan was the third head of the dragon.”
(For what it’s worth—and personally, I think it’s wortha lot—Sophie Turnerlovingly referred to Cogman in the profile as “that motherfucker.")
Cogman was, at one point, developing one of the fiveGame of Thronesspin-offs that are at various stages at HBO, but recently noted that project is off the table. Instead, he heads over to a new network and an entirely new fantasy world. Not a whole lot of concrete information is out there about the Lord of the Rings series, other than the factPeter Jacksonisnot involved, Amazon orderedmultiple seasons, and the whole thing cost anungodly amount of money.
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