In April 2023, HBO introduced it had ordered one other Sport of Thrones prequel titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight. Ordered to collection in April 2023, the prequel relies on novellas written by George R.R. Martin. Through the Warner Bros. Discovery February, 2024 earnings name, CEO David Zaslov revealed the prequel is at the moment in preproduction.
What’s A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight about?
“A century earlier than the occasions of Sport of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros… a younger, naïve however brave knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg,” reads the logline. “Set in an age when the Targaryen line nonetheless holds the Iron Throne and the reminiscence of the final dragon has not but handed from dwelling reminiscence, nice destinies, highly effective foes, and harmful exploits all await these unbelievable and incomparable pals.”
How is A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight associated to Sport of Thrones and Home of the Dragon?
Chronologically, it’s set about 72 years after Home of the Dragon and about 100 years earlier than GOT.
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Is A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight based mostly on a e-book by George R.R. Martin?
Sure. There are three Dunk & Egg fantasy novellas, as they’re recognized to followers. The Hedge Knight is the primary of them.
Why isn’t the TV collection known as Dunk & Egg?
Martin defined that: “I like Dunk and I like Egg, and I do know that followers confer with my novellas as “the Dunk & Egg tales,” certain, however there are thousands and thousands of individuals on the market who have no idea the tales and the title must intrigue them too. If you happen to don’t know the characters, Dunk & Egg feels like a sitcom. Laverne & Shirley. Abbott & Costello. Beavis & Butthead. So, no. We would like “knight” within the title. Knighthood and chivalry are central to the themes of those tales.”
Is George R.R. Martin concerned within the A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight collection?
Sure. Martin is writing and government producing. After the present was introduced in 2023, Martin mentioned the pilot script had already written. He known as it “terrific.”
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Who’s creating A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight?
Ira Parker, a author on Season 1 of Home of the Dragon, can even write and exec produce — He wrote the pilot script. On Home of the Dragon, Parker wrote the fourth episode, titled “King of the Slender Sea.” In response to Martin, “That’s the one the place Prince Daemon returns to King’s Touchdown after conquering the Stepstones, and takes Princess Rhaenyra down into the stews of Flea Backside.”
Home of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal can also be an government producer, which is an effective signal for the present. Condal succeeded the place others failed — out of half-dozen or so writers who took a stab at co-creating the primary Sport Of Thrones prequel with Martin, Condal’s Home of the Dragon was the one to make it to collection at HBO.
Will A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms be true to Martin’s work?
Sure, in accordance with Martin.
“The Dunk & Egg novellas are fully-fleshed narratives extra just like the novels of A Track of Fireplace & Ice than the imaginary historical past of Fireplace & Blood,” wrote Martin in 2023. “The tales are proper there on the web page, and our objective is to supply devoted diversifications of these tales for the display screen.”
Who has been solid in A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight?
Nobody, formally, although these bulletins ought to come quickly for the reason that present is in preproduction and sure quickly to start taking pictures. HBO CEO Casey Bloys mentioned in November, 2023 that manufacturing on the newest prequel is scheduled to get underway this spring.
How a lot will The Hedge Knight price to supply?
Per Deadline reporting, Season 1 of Home of the Dragon price practically $200 million and was the topic of HBO’s greatest advertising marketing campaign ever, valued at over $100M in media spend (that’s a combo of advert spot worth and arduous money shelled out).
One would count on an identical funding this time round, however Martin mentioned in 2023 that he thought Season 1 of The Hedge Knight could be six episodes. Home of the Dragon S1 had 10 episodes, so this newest adaptation of Martin’s work could be rather less expensive.
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A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight was introduced a yr in the past, and there was already a pilot script. Why isn’t it additional alongside?
Martin has careworn that the event of the diversifications of his books takes time. He mentioned that again in 2016 he pitched HBO two concepts, “the Dance of the Dragons, which in due time turned Home of the Dragon… and Dunk & Egg. That was seven years in the past. (I can hardly imagine it myself). The lesson there’s that growth takes time.”
What’s extra, whereas Martin mentioned in April, 2023 that writing on the primary season was “properly underway,” manufacturing on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was shut down for 5 months final yr because of the twin Hollywood strikes.
How can I watch The Hedge Knight?
It’s going to, after all, be on Max as soon as the collection is prepared. The service has three value tiers: Max Advert Mild, which works for $9.99 a month or $99.99 a yr and permits two concurrent streams; Max Advert Free shall be priced at $15.99 a month, or $149.99 a yr, and also will permit two concurrent streams; and Max Final Advert Free which prices $19.99 a month, or $199.99 a yr, and permits entry to 4 concurrent streams.
As well as, WBD’s different present epic literary adaptation, Home of the Dragon, is accessible not solely on the corporate’s streaming service, but additionally to cable subscribers on HBO.
If you happen to’re in Canada, WBD has struck a multi-year licensing settlement with Crave for the likes of Harry Potter, Sport of Thrones, the DC Universe and HBO content material.
When Will A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight be launched?
Zaslov mentioned on the earnings name that The Hedge Knight will debut on Max in “late 2025.” That offers the streamer with GOT-related collection in back-to-back years, with Home of the Dragon Season 2 set to premiere this summer season.
Will the opposite Dunk & Egg novellas be tailored?
There are two extra novellas, The Sworn Sword and The Thriller Knight, that had been printed in numerous anthologies. All three of the narratives had been later printed collectively below the collective title A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
There’s no official phrase on The Sworn Sword and The Thriller Knight from HBO or Time Warner Discovery however, Martin has mentioned, “If The Hedge Knight seems in addition to we hope it should, our hope could be to go on and adapt The Sworn Sword and The Thriller Knight as properly.”
Warner Bros. Discovery is hungry for extra. In a November, 2022 earnings name Zaslav careworn, “We’re going to have an actual concentrate on franchises,” earlier than happening to call examine the Sport of Thrones/Home of the Dragon juggernaut as “an enormous instance of that.”
Will there be extra Dunk & Egg tales written?
Sure. A lot of them, if Martin has something to say about it. And we even have titles and a few thought of what they’re about.
“Earlier than we attain the top of the printed tales,” the writer mentioned of manufacturing on the TV collection, “I might want to discover time to put in writing all the opposite Dunk & Egg novellas that I’ve deliberate. There are… gulp… extra of them than I had as soon as thought. There’s The Village Hero and the Winterfell story, the one with the She-Wolves [The She-Wolves of Winterfell w/t], and perhaps I would like to put in writing that Dornish journey too to slide in between The Hedge Knight and The Sworn Sword, and after that there are… ah… extra.”
“Extra” consists of tales with working titles resembling The Sellsword, The Champion, The Kingsguard, and The Lord Commander, in accordance to the writer.
