Harington reportedly introduced the pitch for the in-development “Snow” sequel to HBO, driving excessive off the breakout success of prequel “Home of the Dragon.”
HBO proved there’s nonetheless stay in Westeros with “Home of the Dragon,” set a few years earlier than the occasions of “Recreation of Thrones.” Does that imply followers are prepared for what comes after?
Equipment Harington has been doing a little fascinated with it. His character, Jon Snow, is a kind of on the middle of 1 such sequel sequence reportedly in growth. Actually his “Thrones” story did not finish the best way he may need hoped.
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Within the controversial 2019 finale of the juggernaut fantasy drama, Harington’s Jon wound up killing Daenerys after she went mad and scorched King’s Touchdown. For his deed, he was banished again to the Wall, the place he’d already spent a few years within the frozen North.
“I believe for those who requested him, he would’ve felt he received off flippantly,” Harington mentioned on the official Recreation of Thrones conference over the weekend, per E! Information.
“On the finish of the present once we discover him in that cell, he is getting ready to be beheaded and he needs to be. He is achieved. The very fact he goes to the Wall is the best reward and likewise the best curse.”
Not less than had he been beheaded, all of Jon’s struggling can be over. All the regrets and doubts and second-guessing can be over. He can be, in the end, at peace. As a substitute, he will get to stay with all of it.
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“He is gotta return as much as the place with all this historical past and stay out his life fascinated with how he killed Dany, and stay out his life fascinated with Ygritte dying in his arms, and stay out his life fascinated with how he hung Olly, and stay out his life fascinated with all of this trauma, and that–“
At this level, Harington gave a really pregnant pause that was full of that means and horrible, horrible teasing for rabid followers hoping for some inkling of affirmation that every one of what he is speaking about will really be explored on the small display.
“–That is attention-grabbing,” Harington concluded with simply the correct quantity of emphasis. Fascinating means price exploring. The place do you go along with a personality buried below a lot remorse and doubt concerning the path he’d chosen, whatever the end result.
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And the way do you progress ahead in a compelling and attention-grabbing manner with a personality already banished from the realm? Do you return North throughout what’s left of the Wall and discover that world now that the Evening King isn’t any extra? Does he depart Westeros? Or does the banishment imply as a lot this time because it did final time?
The ultimate tidbit Harington left followers with was to say, “I believe the place we depart him on the finish of the present, there’s all the time this sense of like– I believe we wished some type of little smile that issues are okay. He isn’t okay.”
In fact, that is the world that George R.R. Martin constructed. Is anybody actually ever okay? “Home of the Dragon” is full of depressing folks all struggling for one purpose or one other, principally of their very own design.
Hmmm, that does sound so much like how Harington is describing Jon Snow’s psychological state once we depart him on the shut of “Recreation of Thrones.” And Harington speaking about Jon’s psychological state carries extra weight than many actors speculating as a result of Martin already revealed that it was Harington who introduced the “Snow” sequel thought to them.
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In a weblog put up over the summer time, Martin shared that Harington introduced the thought, in addition to his personal writers and showrunners. Whereas Martin wouldn’t reveal names, he did say “they’re terrific.”
“Snow” is only one of a number of spinoffs in numerous phases of growth. There was uncertainty as to how followers would obtain new “Thrones” materials after the dad or mum sequence left them annoyed, however they’ve embraced “Dragon” wholeheartedly in record-setting numbers.
That is excellent news for Harington, in addition to doable sequence that includes “The Sea Snake,” Princess Nymeria of the Rhoynar and even Martin’s prequel story, “The Hedge Knight.” Plus, followers haven’t but given up hopes that Arya Stark may but return to proceed her adventures (she was final seen crusing away).