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Game of Thrones spin-off writer Jane Goldman hints at horror and humour in her prequel
The Limehouse Golem writer is developing one of several pitches for HBO.
By Morgan Jeffery and Rosie Fletcher
HBO isn't ready to say goodbye to Westeros just yet, with five potential spin-offs in the works for when Game of Thrones bows out.
Jane Goldman – writer of The Woman in Black and co-writer of the Kingsman movies and Kick-Ass – is one of several writers developing pitches for HBO, with the cabler currently expected to take just one idea to series.
Speaking to Digital Spy to promote her new film The Limehouse Golem, Goldman confirmed: "I am just writing ideas and outlining some things. I really can't say very much about it, but yeah, it's all going well. I'm having lots of fun making stuff up!"
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Though Goldman was understandably tight-lipped about the top-secret project, she did offer a response when we asked if her pitch involved her signature humour and love of gore.
"I don't know if I'm allowed to say, but I would say yeah! Those are things I love, and things I like to do. It would be remiss of me not to put them in. So yeah."
It's not much, but we're absolutely loving the idea of a more horror-focused GoT prequel – those White Walkers already give us chills. (No pun intended.)
Speaking about The Limehouse Golem, a spooky thriller about a series of murders in Victorian London, Goldman told us: "I love gore, and I love the world of the music hall, and I love a good murder mystery and a psychological suspense-y thriller.
"Those are all things that I love. But I certainly loved that the main character [in the original novel by Peter Ackroyd] is a really fascinating woman. I think in some sense [the appeal] was always about the book itself.
"I wouldn't say it's necessarily a feminist book, but I think that it raises how utterly horrible it was to be a woman in the Victorian era. It struck me that there was a lot of space to explore, and some interesting things that perhaps are also relevant now."
The Limehouse Golem is out in cinemas on September 1.
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