The discharge of the following Recreation of Thrones spinoff sequence — A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — is only a few months away, and HBO has dropped the primary poster for the sequence. It has additionally been confirmed that the spinoff will debut on HBO Max in January, which HBO chief Casey Bloys talked about simply final month.
Based mostly on the Dunk and Egg novellas by George R.R. Martin, the sequence takes place practically 100 years earlier than the occasions of Recreation of Thrones. It follows Dunk (Peter Claffey), a squire who takes on the mantle of Ser Duncan the Tall when he takes the armour of a lifeless knight. Dunk is adopted by Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), a younger boy who serves as his squire and accompanies him on his misadventures. The Dunk and Egg tales have a significantly lighter tone whereas retaining the identical fashion because the Recreation of Thrones sequence. Nothing has been confirmed but, however HBO is reportedly contemplating a two-season renewal.
One other approach through which the sequence will differ from Recreation of Thrones or Home of the Dragon is that it gained’t embrace a title sequence. As a substitute, a easy title card will introduce every episode.
“All decisions came down to Dunk, trying to channel the type of person he is into every aspect of this show, even the title sequence,” A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms co-creator Ira Parker instructed Entertainment Weekly. “The title sequences on the unique [Game of Thrones] and Home of Dragon are huge and epic and unbelievable. Ramin Djawadi’s rating is orchestral and enormous and exquisite. That’s probably not Dunk’s M.O. He’s plain and he’s easy and he’s to-the-point. He doesn’t have loads of flash to him.“
The sequence takes place after the occasions of Home of the Dragon, and the world is a far much less magical place. It’s been 50 years because the loss of life of the final dragon, which Parker famous “wasn’t even much of a dragon” because it was a “gnarled thing that couldn’t even fly.” And if a dragon can’t fly, it’s mainly only a “fancy lizard.“
“Nobody’s thinking about magic,” Parker added. “This might mainly be 14th century Britain. That is onerous nostril, grind it out, gritty, medieval knights, chilly with a extremely mild, hopeful contact. It’s a beautiful place to be. We’re floor up on this sequence, we’re beginning proper on the backside. We’re not with the lords and women, the kings and queens.“
There was a time when Recreation of Thrones utterly dominated the TV panorama, however that disastrous remaining season torched loads of the goodwill HBO had constructed up. Positive, the community’s nonetheless mining Westeros with spinoffs like Home of the Dragon, but when we’re being sincere, it doesn’t fairly have that “drop-everything-and-watch” magic the unique as soon as did.
