Kit Harington reveals ‘Game of Thrones’ spinoff is officially ‘off the table’: Not worth it
Jon Snow seems to know something.
Kit Harington, who played the beloved “Game of Thrones” character Jon Snow, delivered some heartbreaking news about the potential spinoff series on Tuesday.
“I hadn’t really ever spoken about it, because it was in development,” Harington, 37, told Screen Rant while promoting his new film “Blood For Dust.”
“I didn’t want it leaked out that it was being developed, and 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.”
According to the British actor, the people involved “look at every angle” to “see whether it’s worth it.”
“Currently, it’s not,” he lamented. “Currently, it’s off the table, because we all couldn’t find the right story to tell that we were all excited about enough. So, we decided to lay down tools with it for the time being.”
While the spinoff could potentially be revisited in the future, it is “firmly on the shelf” for now.
In November 2023, HBO CEO Casey Bloys told TV Line that the potential spinoff was still in limbo.
“We always have ‘Game of Thrones’ scripts in development. We greenlit ‘Dunk and Egg’ in the spring,” Bloys told the outlet, referring to a series of novellas written by author George R.R. Martin.
According to Bloys, the “Dunk and Egg” series is the only spinoff that has been given the go-ahead so far.
“I wouldn’t say there is anything else in that world that is close to a greenlight or anything,” the HBO head honcho added. “But we are always working on different scripts and ideas.”
In June 2022, Martin, 75, initially teased the series about the King of the North in a blog post that said the series’ working title was simply “Snow.”
Should it ever see the light of day, the show would follow the beloved hero after he was exiled from the fictional land of Westeros after murdering his aunt, Daenerys Targaryen.
The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the possible spinoff was “boldly from a creative standpoint” as the series would totally “upend” the lackluster finale of the “Game of Thrones” series, which aired in 2019.
Shortly after the news broke, Harington joked that his character “would’ve felt he got off lightly.”
“At the end of the show when we find him in that cell, he’s preparing to be beheaded, and he wants to be. He’s done. The fact he goes to the Wall is the greatest gift and also the greatest curse,” the Emmy winner told Entertainment Weekly.
“He’s gotta go back up to the place with all this history and live out his life thinking about how he killed Dany, and live out his life thinking about Ygritte dying in his arms,” the actor continued. “And live out his life thinking about how he hung Olly, and live out his life thinking about all of this trauma, and that, that’s interesting.”
“He’s not OK,” the “Eternals” star said, referring to his character’s mental health.
As of now, the only “Thrones” spinoff is “House of the Dragon,” which premiered in August 2022 and is currently set to return for Season 2 on June 16.
