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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- George R.R. Martin hinted at a Game of Thrones prequel series while attending the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday. The 67-year-old author revealed he has plenty of material for a prequel after the HBO series won Outstanding Drama Series at the ceremony. Game of Thrones is based on Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series.
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"I do have thousands of pages of fake history of everything that led up to Game of Thrones, so there's a lot of material there and I'm writing more," Martin told reporters backstage.
"At the moment we still have this show to finish and I still have two books to finish, so that's all speculation," he qualified of the potential project.
Martin has yet to complete books six and seven of the seven planned books for A Song of Ice and Fire. Game of Thrones, meanwhile, will come to a close after an eighth season in 2018 whether the author has finished the novels or not.
"It will be bigger and it will be better, but it will also be worse but mostly better," Game of Thrones showrunner D.B. Weiss said of Seasons 7 and 8.
Martin previously told Entertainment Weekly he'd like to see his Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas adapted if HBO pursues a Game of Thrones spinoff. The series follows the early exploits of Duncan, who becomes a famous knight, and Aegon, a future king.
"[They'd be] the most natural followup," he said in April. "Each of the novellas could easily be done as a two-hour standalone movie for television; that would probably be the ideal way to do them, rather than as an ongoing weekly series."
Game of Thrones was nominated for numerous other awards at the Emmys. The series took home 11 wins in addition to Outstanding Drama Series, including Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Special Visual Effects for the episode "Battle of the Bastards."
