The second season of “Game of Thrones” prequel “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is set to go into production next week in Belfast, Ireland. Season 1 will debut in Jan. 18, 2026 with Season 2 following in 2027.
“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is set around 100 years before the events of the original show based on George R.R. Martin’s blockbuster series. It follows Peter Claffey as Westerosi hedge knight Ser Duncan “Dunk” the Tall and Dexter Sol Ansell as his diminutive squire Egg.
Showrunner Ira Parker was on hand at HBO Max‘s presentation in London on Wednesday to give the audience a sneak peek of what to expect. “It felt very natural, it didn’t feel like a reach,” Parker said of working on the series. “I think we can all find a lot to relate to our one new character Ser Duncan the Tall, certainly I put a lot of myself into him. He’s treading in this strange world. He’s from the ass-end shithole of Westeros, the slums of Westeros, of King’s Landing and he doesn’t know anyone and he doesn’t know anything so all of these lords and ladies and princes and kings and queens that he encounters, it all seems a little absurd to him and he doesn’t quite know if people are making fun of him or not and a lot of good natural comedy comes out of the situation.”
“We take you in on a little bit of a lighter, more friendly path to Westeros. You get to hang out and enjoy yourself for a little bit and then it becomes Westeros and then things are gonna happen,” he continued. “But that’s the fun of this world, anything can happen. Good and bad people die — for no reason other than that’s what the Gods wanted for us.”
Parker also warned the audience that the more modest spinoff does not have the same budgetary freedoms of the original series. “We took everything from Dunk’s POV this season,” said Parker. “He’s the sole POV of the book and we have channelled everything from our music to our titles to our cinematography and our action and also our budget is a reflection of Dunk, who comes from nothing, he has very little. He is a simple, unpolished human being and so are we. There are some wonderful, big, polished, huge, epic shows within this world that can be enjoyed and we are not that. I hope the audiences will forgive us for some of our most unpolished-y parts, we really we tried our best, and that’s what Dunk’s doing. He’s going to this place that’s unfamiliar to him and he’s probably way in over his head and he’s probably giving it his best shot.”
The series is based on George R.R. Martin’s “Tales of Dunk and Egg” novellas, with Variety first reporting the show was in development in 2021. It was officially picked up to series in 2023.
During the HBO Max presentation in London, chairman and CEO of content Casey Bloys also revealed the launch date for the long-awaited third season of “Euphoria” as well as revealing that HBO Max is set to arrive in the U.K. and Ireland in March 2026.
