A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - “Dunk and Egg” Adaptation Coming 2026

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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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I could be totally off the mark on this because I haven't read The Tales of Dunk and Egg but this seems lighter and, for lack of a better term, more family friendly than Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. Like PG-13 Westeros.
 
Drizzle said:
I could be totally off the mark on this because I haven't read The Tales of Dunk and Egg but this seems lighter and, for lack of a better term, more family friendly than Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. Like PG-13 Westeros.
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That’s the impression I’ve always gotten. A little bit more classic heroic fantasy than what GOT is.

I have the collection of the three novellas. I might try to see if I can knock that out before the show hits.
 
Looks very promising. It seems like they did a really good job casting based on what little we could see. Now the wait is going to start to feel long.
 
Curious if the opening theme will also be the Game of Thrones theme again, like with House of the Dragon, or if the creators will make something new.
 
Love Aerions armor. Not crazy about his short hair.

And of course my boy Lyonel looks peak.
 
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Curious if the opening theme will also be the Game of Thrones theme again, like with House of the Dragon, or if the creators will make something new.
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Apparently there is no opening title sequence, according to one of those EW articles linked above. Just a simple title card.
 
Glad that HOTD S3 is also releasing next year with these only being about 30 minutes each. That said, I'm excited to spend more time in Westeros.
 
I am loving everything from this so far. Excited to see Baelor and Maekar, and more of the houses we haven't seen before, like the Fossoways. My only quibble is that Lyonel seems older than he should be (makes the stuff that goes down with him later kind of awkward) but other than that I'm hyped.
 
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