Why Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner Still Want To Team Up

Picture this: two former Game of Thrones sisters, a California weed shop, and a corpse. It reads like a dark sketch from an indie festival—equal parts absurd and irresistible.

Maisie Williams told Collider that she and Sophie Turner had been quietly developing a comedy series a few years back. The premise was deliciously offbeat: two young women working in a marijuana dispensary stumble across a dead body and the chaos that follows. They read scripts together, they laughed. Then the show stalled and was shelved. That’s the brutal, unpredictable business of TV.

Fans who remember Arya and Sansa’s complicated bond might imagine the pair sliding into comfortable comic timing. Off-screen, Williams and Turner became close friends during their eight seasons on Game of Thrones, even teaming up for a 2017 Carpool Karaoke episode that showed how well they riffed together when the cameras weren’t dropping stakes.

So why didn’t the dispensary comedy make it? Timing, shifting priorities, the usual maze of development notes and schedules. Turner’s rising commitments are a big factor: she’s taken on major post‑ Thrones work, now fronting Prime Video’s new Tomb Raider series as Lara Croft—a high-profile, multi‑season commitment that could keep her busy for years if renewed.

Williams, meanwhile, has stayed busy in her own way. From playing Rahne Sinclair in The New Mutants to the darkly funny Kim in Two Weeks to Live and portraying Catherine Dior in Apple TV+’s The New Look, she’s carved out a varied, fearless path. Turner’s résumé after Thrones includes Dark Phoenix, the crime drama Joan, the thriller Trust, and roles in Steal and the gothic horror The Dreadful, where she reunited with Kit Harington.

Both actresses have kept reading scripts and hunting for the right vehicle to bring them back together on screen.

Williams is currently on the press trail for Practical Magic 2, a long‑awaited sequel that reimagines the cult 1998 film and swaps in a new generation of leads. She plays Antonia Owens, joined by Joey King as Kylie Owens, their characters retooled from the original parts played years ago by Alexandra Artrip and Evan Rachel Wood. It’s another reminder that both women are selective about their next moves—choosing projects that let them stretch.

Will a reunion happen? There’s no timetable. Creative chemistry is one thing; calendars are another. Turner’s Tomb Raider promises to be a big, multi‑season centerpiece for Prime Video, with Phoebe Waller‑Bridge attached as creator and Chad Hodge among the showrunners, and a cast that includes Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Celia Imrie and others. If that series grows into several seasons, it could push a shared project further down the list.

But here’s the thing: both Williams and Turner say they want it. They still read scripts together. They still joke about ideas. For viewers who loved the fraternal sparks of Arya and Sansa, the notion of the two returning as co‑leads in something surprising, funny and slightly rotten at the center is tantalising—and you can almost hear the pitch meeting laughter before the rewrite.

In Hollywood, projects die and are reborn in different guises. The dispensary comedy may have been shelved, but the chemistry that launched it is intact. Keep your fingers crossed; talented friends with a shared history and a taste for the offbeat are a persistent combination.