Ever since A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms finished out its first season, we've been following along with all the latest filming updates for the series across Northern Ireland and Spain. Those periodic bits of news have given us a general idea of the filming schedule for season 2, but now we have a rock solid confirmation as to when production is expected to wrap up.
According to Deadline, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will wrap filming on its second season sometime in June 2026. We don't know the exact date in the month, but suffice to say that by the time the sun sets on June 30, production on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 will be in the rearview.
This news comes via a talent announcement that Dexter Sol Ansell, who plays Egg a.k.a. Aegon Targaryen in the series, has signed with WME, a high profile talent agency which has its sights sets on expanding the young actor's career. Considering Ansell's skyrocketing profile, and the fact that people are no doubt only going to fall more in love with his portrayal of Egg over the next few seasons of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the chances that we'll be seeing even more of him in other productions are looking extremely high.
What does A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' filming schedule tell us?
Beyond the fact that this story is good news for the child actor behind everyone's favorite bald-headed squire, the filming wrap date is also good news for fans. If A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms wraps up production on season 2 in June, that makes it likely that we'll be watching it in early 2027, especially considering the fact that this series has a much simpler post-production than its special effects-heavy predecessors, Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.
HBO has made its goal to have A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms be an annual release well known at this point, and with this ending window in sight, the way should be clear for the series to return in the first few months of next year, keeping as close to a 12-month cycle as possible. It may not premiere precisely 12 months later in January 2027, but I'd be shocked if we aren't back in Westeros with Dunk and Egg well before spring rolls around.
I'm also curious how post-production will be impacted for season 2, given the much longer filming length. Season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms only filmed for three months, from June 14, 2024 to September 13, 2024 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. By contrast, season 2 began filming in early December of 2025, and if it wraps sometime in June it will have run for six to seven months, more than double the filming time of the previous season.
There are a few reasons why this happened. The first is that George R.R. Martin's second Tales of Dunk and Egg novella, "The Sworn Sword," takes place during a terrible drought in the Reach, and Northern Ireland is much too lush and gorgeous to stand in for the drier climate. As such, the show had to relocate to Spain to film many of its exterior scenes for the season; that's where it's currently filming as of this writing.
The second is that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 released in the middle of the production window for season 2. It's not completely clear how that impacted the schedules for key cast and crew like showrunner Ira parker, Dunk actor Peter Claffey, and Dexter Sol Ansell, but one can safely assume that they did have to work in some press time somewhere during season 1's run on HBO.
There are other factors that effected production, such as inflation and child labor laws that limited how many hours Ansell could spend on set in a given day — which had more of an impact on season 2 since Egg has an expanded role in the second book — but ultimately I expect that the relocation from Belfast to Spain is probably the single biggest factor that's making season 2 take so much longer to film.
Where is A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms currently filming?
There's one other question this news brings up. Earlier this month it was reported by Spanish news outlet Diario de Avisos that sets for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 were going up at Presa de Las Niñas Dam in Gran Canaria, and that the production had booked out the campsites and recreation area there from February 23 to May 15. This comes from local sources with knowledge of the campsite booking availability, who confirmed that those areas were being kept temporarily closed to allow the shoot privacy. It's about as solid as this sort of information gets.
So what will A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms be doing between May 15 and its wrap date sometime in June? To my eye there are a few options. The first is that the production extends its stay at Presa de Las Niñas an extra few weeks. The second is that there's somewhere else in Spain the show wants to film, which would make sense since Dunk and Egg do a bit of traveling around the Reach between two neighboring holdfasts in the book. The third is that the series may head back to Belfast to finish out any last pickup shots it needs to at its home base of Titanic Studios.
We'll be on the lookout for any more information about production on the series. But for now, it's just nice to know that the end is in sight. Here's hoping everything is going smoothly for Dunk, Egg, Parker, and the rest of the A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms team as filming continues on season 2!