Jon Snow Will Get His Own ‘Game Of Thrones’ Sequel Series
The King of the North will return to our screens, as HBO has entered into early development on its first sequel series since Game of Thrones ended in 2019. Per…
Kit Harington attends “Game Of Thrones” Season 8 Premiere on April 03, 2019 in New York City.
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesThe King of the North will return to our screens, as HBO has entered into early development on its first sequel series since Game of Thrones ended in 2019.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Kit Harrington will reprise his role as the beloved Jon Snow, AKA Aegon Targaryen -- the heir to the Iron Throne. In the series finale, he killed his aunt/lover Daenerys Targaryen and was exiled from Westeros, last seen journeying North of the Wall with the Wildlings.
In theory, the project could open the door for other surviving characters from the Thrones universe to reappear like Stark sisters Arya (Maisie Williams) and Sansa (Sophie Turner) and Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie).
This development news means there are now seven Game of Thrones projects in the works in addition to the upcoming House of the Dragon prequel series, which debuts August 21. House of the Dragon is set 200 years before the events in Game of Thrones, telling the story of a civil war within House Targaryen. HBO’s other live-action prequels in various stages of development are 10,000 Ships (Princess Nymeria), 9 Voyages (aka The Sea Snake) and Dunk and Egg. There are also three animated prequel projects, including The Golden Empire, which is set in the China-inspired land of Yi Ti.
With the final season of Game of Thrones officially halfway done, fans are preparing for the end of a television era.
But while fans will truly miss the show, the cast and crew had a lot to say about how emotional the conclusion of the HBO hit was.
Check out the stars' quotes in the gallery below.
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark
(Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)"I've grown up with these people, I've changed so much as a person," she says of the show's cast and crew, who she added she will miss most of all. But it's a far cry from her beginnings on the show as a scared young girl. "I remember being so overwhelmed and terrified." (Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark
"I've thrown into Arya," she told HBO. "Every tool I've got as an actor I've used in Arya. It's really hard to create new people now. Every time I do it, it's just a little worse, like 'don't do it quite as good as Arya. Don't make them quite as strong or quite as cool as Arya. I'm 100 percent going to miss that. I'm still not done with mourning her. We can't talk about it, I'm going to cry." (Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targargyan
(Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)"The journey that I've been on with Daenerys, it's sharpened me as an actor, and because of the heights she goes to, it's forced me to find them within myself," Clarke told HBO. "And so anytime anything good or bad happens, you put it into her. So Daenerys is a tapestry of my entire adult life. Within each major scene of Daenerys is every major scene of my life." (Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)
Kit Harington as Jon Snow
(Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)"Everyone was broken at the end," he told GQ. "I don’t know if we were crying because we were sad it was ending or if we were crying because it was so f******* tiring. We were sleep deprived. It was like it was designed to make you think, 'Right, I’m f****** sick of this.' I remember everyone walking around towards the end going, ‘I’ve had enough now. I love this, it’s been the best thing in my life, I’ll miss it one day – but I’m done.’" (Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister
(Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)"I had all these ideas in my head and a version of one of them is how it ends up [for Tyrion]," he told EW. [Showrunners] David and Dan have a brilliant version of what I had. If I use any adjectives it will give it away. But I love how it ended up. And how it ends up for everybody. They had a beautiful gentle touch with some and a hard touch with others.” (Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)
Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont
(Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)"'Thrones' is the holy grail, where it's something that's enormously, globally, massively popular," Glen told HBO. "And people think it's cool, you know it's critically approved of. And you have to love those times cause if you're not loving them, then you may as well not turn up to work. Because it doesn't get better than that." (Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)
Jon Bradley as Samwell Tarley
(Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)"Each of the characters this year is placed in a completely alien environment at some point in the season that they’ve never been placed in before," he told TV Guide. "The thrill is seeing how they react to it and how they respond…This season, I think, more than any other is stretching these characters.” (Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)
Carice van Houten as Melisandre
(Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)"I was a bit emotional," the actress told EW. "I really like that we finally know what she came for, and it’s the end of her journey." (Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister
(Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)“They just couldn’t have done a better job on ending our story. We’ve worked harder than ever before,” Coster-Waldau told Variety. “We spent twice as much shooting these six episodes than we did on two full seasons before. No expense has been spared. We’ve gone all in.” (Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)
