Jon Snow ‘Game of Thrones’ sequel shelved, Kit Harington says

Kit Harington shared an replace on the Jon Snow-led Game of Thrones sequel collection that he pitched to HBO, however it’s maybe not the reply followers are hoping to listen to.

The actor, who starred within the fantasy drama for eight seasons as the key son of the late Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, tells Leisure Weekly in an interview for his new film Blood for Mud that the idea is shelved.

When requested about his future initiatives and if he had any replace on “the large one,” Harington stated, “It’d solely be honest to share this with you when you’re alluding to Jon Snow in any respect, it is not occurring — and never occurring anytime quickly anyway. We bounced some concepts round and nothing actually lit us up. It simply did not. I believe we do not need to do one thing that is not value it. So in the intervening time, we’re simply shelving it.

“I’d by no means have stated sure to the thought of growing one thing with Jon Snow if I did not suppose there was one thing fascinating there, and there may have been,” he continues. “However HBO cares concerning the character lots and I care concerning the character lots, and we do not need to put out one thing that’s going to sully the character. That is the worst factor that we may probably do. So except we discover one thing sooner or later that actually lands, there is not any level in speeding it. There is not any level in holding growing for growth’s sake and doing one thing that I do not need to do.”

Experiences got here out within the press in June 2022 {that a} Jon Snow collection was within the very early levels of growth, which was later confirmed by A Tune of Ice and Hearth creator George R.R. Martin. “It was Package Harrington who introduced the thought to us,” Martin wrote in a weblog entry on the time.

Nevertheless, there have been a number of different spinoff remedies in rivalry for a inexperienced mild and it wasn’t confirmed whether or not any of them could be transferring ahead. Different initiatives up for consideration vary from animated initiatives to a live-action drama about Aegon’s conquest of Westeros.

The one spinoffs formally within the works are House of the Dragon, the Targaryen prequel drama that dropped its first season in 2022 and is gearing up for a season 2 return this June; and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, which recently cast Peter Claffey (Wreck) because the knight “Dunk” (Ser Duncan the Tall) and Dexter Sol Ansell (The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) as Dunk’s diminutive squire “Egg.”

Harington made an appearance at the first official Game of Thrones convention in Los Angeles in December 2022. He didn’t tackle the potential Jon Snow collection on the time, however he did speak about the place the character was after the occasions of the unique present’s finale.

In that ultimate episode, Jon Snow was banished to dwell out his days on the Wall within the North for killing Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). “I believe when you requested him, he would’ve felt he received off flippantly,” the actor stated on the conference. “On the finish of the present, once we discover him in that cell, he is making ready to be beheaded and he desires to be. He is finished. The actual fact he goes to the Wall is the best present and likewise the best curse.”

Harington went on to say of Jon Snow, “He is gotta return as much as the place with all this historical past and dwell out his life serious about how he killed Dany, and dwell out his life serious about Ygritte [played by Rose Leslie] dying in his arms, and dwell out his life serious about how he hung Olly [Brenock O’Connor], and dwell out his life serious about all of this trauma, and that… that is fascinating.”

HBO had no touch upon the Jon Snow collection’ standing.

Blood for Mud, which sees Harington tackle a extra antagonistic function than the heroic Snow, arrives in theaters and on digital April 19.

—Reporting by Mike Miller

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