New York, New York - The hit fantasy TV series Game of Thrones is set to hit the stage.

A theater spectacular will be staged on Broadway and London's West End, as well as in Australia, in 2023, the Hollywood Reporter announced on Tuesday.

Series creator George R. R. Martin (72) is working on a live show that will be a prequel to the eight-season HBO series. It will be set 16 years before the events of the TV show and focus on the ten-day Tournament of Hallhal.

Several favorite characters from the TV series are expected to appear in the play, but it is still a mystery which ones they might be.

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"The production will boast a story centered around love, vengeance, madness and the dangers of dealing in prophecy, in the process revealing secrets and lies that have only been hinted at until now," Martin said.

Producers, a director, and a playwright for the project have been announced, but there has been no word yet about a possible cast.

HBO's Game of Thrones had an astronomical viewership and received a record-breaking 59 Emmy Awards. It was reportedly the most expensive final season of TV ever made, with a budget of $15 million per episode.

The network has already announced that a TV prequel, House of the Dragon, will premiere in 2022.

It also has at least five other prequels in various stages of development.

The Tournament of Hallhal is referenced frequently in the books and TV show, but Martin said "the play will for the first time take audiences deeper behind the scenes of a landmark event that previously was shrouded in mystery."

"Now, at last, we can tell the whole story," he added.