Kit Harington says Jon Snow “Game of Thrones” sequel is shelved
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"We don't want to do something that's not worth it," the actor tells Entertainment Weekly.
Kit Harington shared an update on the Jon Snow-led Game of Thrones sequel series that he pitched to HBO, but it's perhaps not the answer fans are hoping to hear.
The actor, who starred in the fantasy drama for eight seasons as the secret son of the late Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, tells Entertainment Weekly in an interview for his new movie Blood for Dust that the concept is shelved.
When asked about his future projects and if he had any update on "the big one," Harington said, "It'd only be fair to share this with you if you're alluding to Jon Snow at all, it's not happening — and not happening anytime soon anyway. We bounced some ideas around and nothing really lit us up. It just didn't. I think we don't want to do something that's not worth it. So for the time being, we're just shelving it.
"I would never have said yes to the idea of developing something with Jon Snow if I didn't think there was something interesting there, and there could have been," he continues. "But HBO cares about the character a lot and I care about the character a lot, and we don't want to put out something that is going to sully the character. That's the worst thing that we could possibly do. So unless we find something in the future that really lands, there's no point in rushing it. There's no point in keeping developing for development's sake and doing something that I don't want to do."
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Kit Harington as Jon Snow in 'Game of Thrones'Reports came out in the press in June 2022 that a Jon Snow series was in the very early stages of development, which was later confirmed by A Song of Ice and Fire creator George R.R. Martin. "It was Kit Harrington who brought the idea to us," Martin wrote in a blog entry at the time.
However, there were multiple other spinoff treatments in contention for a green light and it wasn't confirmed whether any of them would be moving forward. Other projects up for consideration range from animated projects to a live-action drama about Aegon's conquest of Westeros.
The only spinoffs officially in 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) as the knight "Dunk" (Ser Duncan the Tall) and Dexter Sol Ansell (The Hunger 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 did not address the potential Jon Snow series at the time, but he did talk about where the character was after the events of the original show's finale.
In that final episode, Jon Snow was banished to live out his days on the Wall in the North for killing Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). "I think if you asked him, he would've felt he got off lightly," the actor said at the convention. "At the end of the show, when we find him in that cell, he's preparing to be beheaded and he wants to be. He's done. The fact he goes to the Wall is the greatest gift and also the greatest curse."
Harington went on to say of Jon Snow, "He's gotta go back up to the place with all this history and live out his life thinking about how he killed Dany, and live out his life thinking about Ygritte [played by Rose Leslie] dying in his arms, and live out his life thinking about how he hung Olly [Brenock O'Connor], and live out his life thinking about all of this trauma, and that… that's interesting."
HBO had no comment on the Jon Snow series' status.
Blood for Dust, which sees Harington take on a more antagonistic role than the heroic Snow, arrives in theaters and on digital April 19.
—Reporting by Mike Miller
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