‘Dunk and Egg’ Series in the Works

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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms‘

The adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s three Dunk and Egg novellas, done on a smaller, more “intimate” scale than the other Game of Throne series, is still on track for a three-season run, with a renewal likely, Orsi said.

“You’re going be so impressed by Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell as Dunk and Egg, the two leads,” she said. “So much so that we’re already planning on how do we build this for the three seasons in total. We’re not picking it up officially, but it’s looking very good.”

 

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‘A Knight’ in shining armor

While Game of Thrones author and House of the Dragon co-creator George R.R. Martin has had somewhat mixed reaction to the prequel’s second season, he has been effusive in his praise for the upcoming second GoT prequel, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is based on his Dunk and Egg fantasy novella trilogy. The six-episode first season is based on the first book, The Hedge Knight.



“I’ve seen all six episodes now (the last two in rough cuts, admittedly), and I loved them,” Martin wrote on his blog last month. “Dunk and Egg have always been favorites of mine, and the actors we found to portray them are just incredible.”

Orsi was not aware of Martin’s public comments but she was well aware of his reaction to the episode cuts for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is set about 90 years before the events of Game of Thrones.

“He loves it,” Orsi said of the feedback they have been getting internally from the series creator.

She also shares Martin’s praise for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms‘ two stars. Additionally, she revealed that HBO executives are so bullish on the smaller-scale, more cost-efficient production with less VFX work and a shorter turnaround time that renewal is looking good, and they are considering filming Seasons 2 and 3 back-to-back. (Orsi revealed to Deadline in a 2023 interview that the idea for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was to be “arcing out a three-season series, which maps out the three novellas that George wrote.”)

“You’re going to be so impressed by Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell as Dunk and Egg, the two leads, the sort of brotherhood, the paternal nature between Dunk and this young man,” she said. “So much so that we’re already planning on how do we build this for the three seasons in total. We’re not picking it up officially, but it’s looking very good. We’re looking at it as a holistic piece, Seasons 2 and 3, because there’s three novellas.”

She left the door open to more since Martin has indicated that he may write more Dunk and Egg stories.

“The role of Egg only spans not even a year, so you have to roll into it season to season pretty quickly, because this little kid will grow up too quickly if we wait too long,” she added. “So we’re thinking about that in terms of pickups.”

 

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