Winter, apparently, just isn’t coming again. Kit Harington has shut down speak of a Jon Snow sequel to HBO’s huge hit “Game of Thrones.”
“There are no plans for it at the moment. It’s off the table for the foreseeable,” Harington advised The Associated Press, whereas selling his new crime drama movie “Blood for Dust.”
“Game of Thrones” led to 2019 after eight seasons, however the prospect of spinoffs had been bandied about. Fans needed to wait three years for the one one which’s aired so far, the HBO prequel “House of the Dragon,” set two centuries earlier than “Game of Thrones.”
A sequel centered across the widespread Snow, who began “Game of Thrones” as an outcast and brother of the Night’s Watch and fought his strategy to extra energy in Westeros and the reality of his ancestry, had reportedly been in improvement for a number of years.
“We sort of threw around a few ideas. Nothing really stuck, and we’re going to leave it there for the moment,” Harington, 37, stated.
An HBO spokesperson declined remark to the AP.
The Snow-centric sequel is not the primary spinoff placed on ice. In 2019, HBO reportedly dropped a prequel set hundreds of years beforehand. Starring Naomi Watts, it had already filmed a pilot episode.
As for Harington, he lately partnered once more with HBO for an look on the third season of the community’s drama “Industry,” which premieres later this 12 months. The actor stated he was “really excited” about being on the present, primarily based on London’s cutthroat monetary world.
“I just think it’s one of the most unique, interesting, tonally, exciting pieces out there,” Harington stated.
The second season of “House of the Dragon” is about to premiere on June 16 — and followers looking forward to extra Westeros can look ahead to the prequel “Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight.” Warner Bros. introduced final week that Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell will lead the collection, set 100 years earlier than “Game of Thrones.”
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