The Lifeless Jon Snow Present Could Reside As soon as Extra

A few years ago on the heights of HBO’s speculative craving for extra Recreation of Thrones, one of many wildest concepts that emerged within the operating was a flat-out sequel sequence, starring Kit Harington’s Jon Snow and set after the occasions of the primary present’s extremely controversial ending. However, two years after it first emerged, Harington himself appeared from past the Wall to substantiate that the present was dead and buried. Now, which will now not be the case.

As a part of a serious new profile with George R.R. Martin, The Hollywood Reporter revealed plans for what would’ve impressed the sequel sequence earlier than it met its finish. Whereas Martin himself initially bristled on the considered a sequel series that might probably additional enmesh in folks’s minds the ending to Recreation of Thrones because it appeared on TV—which he has continued to iterate virtually because the second it aired is vastly completely different from his plans for the Tune of Ice and Hearth books’ long-awaited conclusion—the writer believed that Jon, remoted as he was from the remainder of Westeros on the sequence’ finish, could be one of the best path ahead to proceed the story with out revealing an excessive amount of about the remainder of the seven kingdoms.

Based on the commerce, Harington developed an idea with writers from his historic BBC miniseries Gunpowder that deeply targeted on Jon’s traumatic state of mind following the occasions of Recreation of Thrones. Casting apart each his fabled sword, Longclaw, and his longtime companion Ghost the direwolf, the sequence would’ve seen an aimless Jon past the Wall in exile, continually constructing and destroying cabins to offer himself something to do aside from be alone together with his ideas. Harington additionally believed that the one path ahead for Jon over the course of the sequence wasn’t to change into a heroic determine once more and return to motion, however to die—this time, for good.

Though seemingly closely impressed by the actor’s personal struggles filming Recreation of Thrones, HBO was, maybe understandably, purportedly not too eager on such a bleak premise for a sequence. Harington confirmed the undertaking had been shelved by the spring of 2024, however THR experiences that HBO is now within the very earliest phases of reviving the present, albeit with a radically altered premise.

Allegedly now being developed by Drops of God author Quoc Dang Tran, the potential new present would relocate from past the Wall in Westeros’ frigid north to the japanese continent of Essos, and as a substitute of following simply Jon, he would now be joined by one other acquainted face—his half-sister Arya, who concluded Recreation of Thrones by leaving Westeros to discover distant lands additional to… effectively, its west, so presumably sooner or later she’ll have determined to show her boat round and go the opposite manner.

However, as we’ve seen earlier than, there’s a big distinction between HBO having concepts a few new Recreation of Thrones present and a brand new Recreation of Thrones present actually happening. This new plot wouldn’t simply have to persuade Harington to return for an concept vastly completely different from the one he was truly all in favour of pursuing sooner or later; it could now additionally have to probably convey on board Maisie Williams as effectively to proceed Arya’s story. However the latter doesn’t look like the numerous hurdle right here: Harington is seemingly steadfast that he’ll by no means return to Westeros once more.

“No, god no,” Harington instructed Variety final month about even the mildest of returns to the franchise when requested if he’d probably reprise his position for future A Tune of Ice and Hearth audio books. “I don’t wanna go anyplace close to it. I spent 10 years doing that. Thanks, I’m alright.”

Good luck with that one, then.

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