Jon Snow looks to know a little something.
Package Harington, who played the beloved “Game of Thrones” character Jon Snow, shipped some heartbreaking news about the possible spinoff sequence on Tuesday.
“I hadn’t seriously ever spoken about it, mainly because it was in improvement,” Harington, 37, instructed Display screen Rant. “I did not want it leaked out that it was staying formulated, and I did not want the detail to occur where folks type of start out theorizing, acquiring either energized about it or hating the plan of it, when it may possibly never occur.”
According to the British actor, the persons involved “look at every single angle” to “see irrespective of whether it is truly worth it.”
“Currently, it’s not,” he lamented. “Currently, it’s off the desk, because we all couldn’t locate the right tale to convey to that we were being all energized about sufficient. So, we determined to lay down equipment with it for the time being.”
When the spinoff could possibly be revisited in the long run, it is “firmly on the shelf” for now.
In November 2023, HBO CEO Casey Bloys instructed Television Line that the probable spinoff was still in limbo.
“We normally have ‘Game of Thrones’ scripts in growth. We greenlit ‘Dunk and Egg’ in the spring,” Bloys informed the outlet, referring to a series of novellas written by creator George R.R. Martin.
In accordance to Bloys, the “Dunk and Egg” sequence is the only spinoff that has been given the go-ahead so significantly.
“I wouldn’t say there is just about anything else in that globe that is near to a greenlight or everything,” the HBO head honcho added. “But we are always functioning on various scripts and tips.”
In June 2022, Martin, 75, in the beginning teased the collection about the King of the North in a weblog put up that claimed the series’ doing the job title was only “Snow.”
Really should it at any time see the light-weight of day, the present would comply with the beloved hero immediately after he was exiled from the fictional land of Westeros soon after murdering his aunt, Daenerys Targaryen.
The Hollywood Reporter disclosed that the possible spinoff was “boldly from a creative standpoint” as the series would absolutely “upend” the lackluster finale of the “Game of Thrones” series, which aired in 2019.
Soon immediately after the information broke, Harington joked that his character “would’ve felt he received off evenly.”
“At the conclude of the display when we come across him in that cell, he’s making ready to be beheaded and he desires to be. He’s accomplished. The fact he goes to the Wall is the greatest reward and also the biggest curse,” the Emmy winner told Entertainment Weekly.
“He’s gotta go back up to the spot with all this historical past and reside out his life imagining about how he killed Dany, and are living out his life considering about Ygritte dying in his arms,” the actor continued. “And dwell out his existence contemplating about how he hung Olly, and are living out his existence thinking about all of this trauma, and that, which is attention-grabbing.”
“He’s not Okay,” the “Eternals” star reported, referring to his character’s mental wellness.
As of now, the only “Thrones” spinoff is “House of The Dragon,” which premiered in August 2022 and is at the moment set to return for Period 2 on June 16.
