HBO is still in the Game of Thrones business, for at least the next few years. It was revealed on Tuesday that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a prequel series set in Westeros, is slated to hit television screens in 2026.
According to new reporting from Variety, Warner Bros. Discovery global streaming chief JB Perrette told attendees at a tech and media conference hosted by Wells Fargo that the story of Dunk and Egg will arrive in Summer 2026. Although, according to the trade publication's sources, "Variety has learned it's more likely going to be a fourth-quarter title."
What Is 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' About And How Does It Connect To 'Game of Thrones'?
Regardless of when, exactly, the show ends up on our screens, the premise of the show will remain the same. Based off a series of novellas from George R.R. Martin, it follows Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Caffey) and his squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), as they traverse the countryside in the years leading up to the aforementioned Egg becoming King Aegon V Targaryen.
This new show takes place 90 years before his A Song of Ice and Fire series, which birthed the whole of this fantasy world, but after the events of House of the Dragon. The rest of the announced cast includes Henry Ashton as Daeron Targaryen (not the same Daeron we see in House of the Dragon), Edward Ashley as Ser Steffon Fossoway, Youssef Kerkour as Steely Pate, Daniel Monks as Ser Manfred Dondarrion, Shaun Thomas as Raymun Fossoway, Tom Vaughan-Lawloras Plummer, and Danny Webb as Ser Arlan of Pennytree.
The creative team behind the series includes executive producers Martin, Ira Parker, Ryan Condal, Vince Gerardis, Sarah Bradshaw, and Owen Harris, who will also direct the first three episodes. Sarah Adina Smith will direct the other three episodes of the series' first season.
Previously, HBO has said that the series will look and feel decidedly different from its predecessors, with HBO president Casey Bloys explaining that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is, at least tonally, far different than anything they've ever done in Westeros. "By design, we have taken a lighter tone. It's very different from the previous two series." It also has a smaller budget—mostly due to the lack of dragons and large portions of the series happening in a field or tent.
Martin wrote this about the matter on his own personal blog:
KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS is a smaller show than either GAME OF THRONES or HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, with a much smaller budget, but I really want it to be great. Ninety percent of the story is set in a field, surrounded by tents, we would not need the huge sets the other shows had featured, but it couldn’t look fake or cheap either, and the costumes and the heraldry and the fights all had to be splendid, and… I was so, so happy when I got there, and saw what Ira and his team had built.
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