No go for Jon Snow show
Kit Harington says his Jon Snow sequel series to Game of Thrones won't be moving forward.
“There are no plans for it at the moment. It's off the table for the foreseeable,” Harington, 37, told The Associated Press this week. “We sort of threw around a few ideas. Nothing really stuck, and we're going to leave it there for the moment.”
In 2022, it was announced that Harington was attached to a spinoff series centring on the character.
“It was Kit Harington who brought the idea to us,” Thrones author George R.R. Martin later wrote in a blog post.
“I cannot tell you the names of the writers-showrunners, since that has not been cleared for release yet but Kit brought them in too, his own team, and they are terrific.”
Game of Thrones came to an end in 2019 and as soon as it concluded, talk turned to spinoffs and sequels. Several story ideas were considered with one series starring Naomi Watts shooting a pilot.
Set thousands of years before Game of Thrones, the show was directed by S.J. Clarkson and penned by Kick-ass and Kingsman writer Jane Goldman. In addition to Watts, the series was set to star Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter), Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) and Georgie Henley (The Chronicles of Narnia).
Eventually, HBO moved forward with House of the Dragon, the only spinoff series to date. A second season is due out this summer.
HBO also announced a second prequel is in the works with Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight due to go before cameras later this year.
According to Variety, the series is based around the characters Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Egg, featured in the Tales of Dunk and Egg books written by Martin.
Harington admitted his show won't be moving forward because the team “couldn't find the right story to tell.
“I hadn't really ever spoken about it, because it was in development,” Harington told Screenrant in a separate interview. “I didn't want it leaked out that it was being developed. I didn't want the thing to happen where people kind of start theorizing, getting either excited about it or hating the idea of it, when it may never happen. Because in development, you look at every angle, and you see whether it's worth it.
“And currently, it's not. Currently, it's off the table, because we all couldn't find the right story to tell that we were all excited about enough,” he continued.