Game of Thrones Writer George R.R. Martin Joins Animated Hercules Movie as Producer, and We're Never Getting Winds of Winter, Are We?

Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin has joined the accumulation of an upcoming animated Hercules movie, successful his latest extracurricular enactment that's not moving connected the long-awaited Winds of Winter.

Martin volition service arsenic shaper connected the project, which volition accommodate the classical Greek communicative of Hercules' 12 labors, The Hollywood Reporter stated. Under the rubric of A Dozen Tough Jobs, the movie volition retell events from the position of a husbandman successful 1920s Mississippi.

But portion Martin is connected shaper duties, helium won't beryllium spending clip penning the film's script. That work goes to Joe R. Lansdale, whose bizarre caller Bubba Ho-Tep featured Elvis warring an Egyptian Mummy.

"If anyone understands the powerfulness of epic stories and expansive franchises, it's George R.R. Martin," said David Steward II, brag of accumulation institution Lion Forge Entertainment.

"With A Dozen Tough Jobs, we're reimagining a timeless fable done fresh, culturally affluent lenses. This isn't conscionable a retelling — it's a groundbreaking take, dissimilar thing audiences person seen before, grounded successful past but pushing story into uncharted territory."

Winds of Winter, the adjacent publication successful Martin's long-running A Song of Ice and Fire series, inactive lacks a merchandise date. Indeed, it's present been astir 14 years since A Dance with Dragons arrived successful July 2011.

Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin. Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images.

The 76-year-old writer inactive plans for the long-awaited adjacent introduction to beryllium followed by another, A Dream of Spring, to circular disconnected the bid — thing the Game of Thrones' TV adaptation did not hold astir for, albeit with mixed results.

But portion readers wait, Martin has been keeping busy. The writer has been involved, to a greater and lesser degree, successful respective different Game of Thrones TV spin-offs, including the palmy House of the Dragon, and fictional humanities novels astir the franchise's world.

And, of course, Martin has dabbled with the satellite of video games, excessively — penning backstory for Elden Ring.

In September 2024, Martin admitted via his blog that "television projects ate up astir of the archetypal half" of past year, stopping him from penning more. So, erstwhile volition Winds of Winter arrive? Not immoderate clip soon, Martin wrote arsenic precocious arsenic past month.

In a station dated April 7, 2025, Martin complained helium was "so bushed of having to contented denials each clip immoderate offhand remark of mine, astir having thing to bash with WINDS, someway convinces fractional the net that the publication is imminent. It’s not. No".

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