A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms is officially underway, but how many Game Of Thrones spinoffs are in the works? Find out below.
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The first season of the prequel show premiered last Sunday (January 18) on HBO in the US, with UK viewers able to watch the following day on Sky and NOW TV. It is based on the Tales Of Dunk And Egg novellas, and it stars Peter Claffey as the hedge knight Dunk and Dexter Sol Ansell as his squire Egg.
George R.R. Martin wrote the existing Dunk And Egg books between 1998 and 2010, and he has stated numerous times that he intends to continue the series in the future. They are set in the world of his A Song Of Ice And Fire novels, which themselves remain incomplete, as the final two planned books are still unfinished.
The most recent book that Martin published in the series was A Dance With Dragons in 2011, with The Winds Of Winter set to be the sixth volume and A Dream Of Spring intended to bring the saga to its conclusion.
The delay in the publication of the last two books meant that the HBO telling of the Game Of Thrones saga had to largely invent the remainder of the story for its final seasons, based on Martin’s rough blueprint.
In a three-star review of A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms season one, NME wrote: “By the end of this first season though, the relationship between Dunk and Egg has developed into something genuinely sweet. You’ll find yourself rooting for Claffey’s klutzy knight as he tries to prove his virtue as well as his mettle. Considering that Dunk’s defining achievement in episode one is defecating athletically from behind a tree, that’s no mean feat.”
Every Game Of Thrones spinoff in the works
A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms is not the first prequel series to Game Of Thrones to make it to air – House Of The Dragon debuted with its first season in August 2022, and followed it up two years later with a second.
Based on parts of Martin’s Fire & Blood, it is set around 200 years before the events of Game Of Thrones, and it has been a success for HBO, picking up Golden Globes and Emmys and becoming HBO Max’s most watched show on its opening day. A third season is expected to be released later this year, and the show will wrap up with a fourth and final season, which should arrive in 2028.
Then came Seven Kingdoms, which is airing now and has already been renewed for a second season, which is expected to be released in 2027.
As for other shows, Martin said in November: “Apart from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and House of the Dragon, there are other Game of Thrones spinoff projects in development. The majority are prequels, and there are several in development – maybe five or six shows. And I’m not developing them alone, I’m working on them with other people. And yes, there’s a sequel or two [in the works].”
One project that HBO commissioned in 2018 was a prequel series to be developed by screenwriter Jane Goldman. It was to take place roughly 10,000 years before Game Of Thrones, with the possible title of The Long Night. Naomi Watts was cast as the female lead, and a pilot was in post-production, but in 2019, it was announced that HBO had decided not to move forward with the show.
HBO is currently developing Aegon’s Conquest, another prequel series focusing on Aegon Targaryen’s invasion and unification of Westeros with his sister-wives Rhaenys and Visenya. Mattson Tomlin, writer on The Batman, is working on the project, although no release schedule has been announced.
Other titles rumoured to be in consideration are The Golden Empire, an adult animated series, The Sea Snake, another animated show, and 10,000 Ships, although these all remain unconfirmed to date.
A Jon Snow spinoff was in production at one stage, with Kit Harington set to return to the role, but HBO shelved that project in 2024, with Harington saying they could not agree on a narrative for the series.
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