In a time before Game Of Thrones, and in a world where summer children didn’t even know there could be something so agonising as waiting for news on The Winds Of Winter, there was George R.R. Martin’s first fantasy story: The Ice Dragon. And now that frosty tale is coming to the screen.
It was announced Wednesday that Martin’s short story for children will become an official The Ice Dragon movie at Warner Animation. The Warner Animation Group revealed the news, including that Martin is attached to the project in the role of producer. Further it has been rumored by the trades like THR that Martin is considering taking a crack at the screenplay and adapting it to screen.
For the record, The Ice Dragon has no relation to Westeros. Originally published in Ace Books’ anthology Dragons Of Light, it was released in 1980, a full 16 years before A Game Of Thrones introduced us to Westeros.
The idea of a children’s animated film sprung from the mind of George R.R. Martin is an amusing one. And him writing the screenplay in one sense is even more tempting, considering he spent years as a screenwriter in Hollywood and wrote what I still argue is maybe the best scripted hour in Game Of Thrones history, season 2’s Blackwater.
We’ll keep you posted as we hear news on The Ice Dragon, including when it has a director and voice cast attached. For now, the project is in its early stages.