A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 gets exciting filming update after unexpected mishap

When HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms wrapped its first season in February, it left fans with a simple, hopeful image: Dunk and Egg riding off into the unknown, bound for adventure, unburdened by the past. Soon after, the adventure is back and this time it's heading somewhere new.

Season 2 of the breakout Game of Thrones prequel is on the verge of exterior filming in Gran Canaria, the Spanish island in the Atlantic that has become the show's unlikely new home. It's a long way from the grey skies of Belfast, but season 2 has a very different story to tell.

As we’ve previously reported, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 began filming in Belfast in December, then moved to Spain before an unexpected in pause in Gran Canaria due to a historic flood. We knew production would continue there after a brief relocation, and now we have confirmation that it’s “imminent.”

Peter Claffey has touched down in Gran Canaria

Spanish site Los Siete Reinos have now published fresh details confirming that exterior filming with actors is a matter of days away. Local outlet Atlántico Hoy has separately confirmed the main filming location as La Fortaleza, a dramatic natural fortress in Santa Lucía de Tirajana in the south of the island.

Since last week, members of the costume and makeup team have been in Gran Canaria. Peter Claffey is already in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, staying at one of the city's most prominent hotels with the wider actors' entourage also present in the city for several days.

Los Siete Reinos cheekily noted he may already be sampling the island's famous mojo picón sauce.

Perhaps the clearest sign that cameras are about to roll is what the extras have been told. According to Los Siete Reinos, they have already completed their costume fittings and were informed that filming would begin "at the end of May,” meaning this week or the next. 

Claffey himself shared a photo from Gran Canaria on his Instagram stories over the weekend.

Where season 1 left off

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is HBO's second Game of Thrones spinoff, created by showrunner Ira Parker alongside George R.R. Martin. Set roughly a century before the events of Game of Thrones, the series follows two unlikely companions across Westeros. Ser Duncan "Dunk" the Tall (Peter Claffey), a lowborn hedge knight with more honor than money, and his squire Aegon "Egg" Targaryen (Dexter Sol Ansell), a young boy traveling incognito who happens to be a prince of the royal dynasty.

The series is based on Martin's Tales of Dunk and Egg novella trilogy, beginning with The Hedge Knight (1998).

Season 1 adapted The Hedge Knight closely following Dunk as he stumbles into the grand tournament at Ashford Meadow, gets entangled in a royal dispute with the volatile Prince Aerion Targaryen (Finn Bennett), and ends up fighting a Trial of Seven to save his own life and honor. 

Dunk wins, but the victory is bittersweet. Prince Baelor Targaryen (Bertie Carvel), the beloved Hand of the King and heir to the Iron Throne, dies from wounds sustained fighting on Dunk's behalf. The guilt weighs heavily.

The finale, titled "The Morrow," picks up in the aftermath. Dunk declines an offer to serve House Baratheon at Storm's End, attends Baelor's funeral, and ultimately, in a meaningful break from the source material, rides away not as someone else's man, but as his own. The ghost of his old mentor, Ser Arlan of Pennytree, symbolically trots off across a golden field. Dunk moves forward.

Egg, meanwhile, sheds his royal colours and returns to Dunk's side as squire. As the pair ride towards Dorne and new adventures, Egg cheekily corrects Dunk that there are nine kingdoms, not seven. It's a warm, hopeful ending and a perfect setup for what comes next.

The Sworn Sword, sun, and Spain in season 2

Season 2 will adapt The Sworn Sword, the second Dunk and Egg novella. The story puts Dunk and Egg in the middle of a bitter local land dispute during a summer drought in Westeros involving a stubborn old knight named Ser Eustace Osgrey and his formidable neighbor, Lady Rohanne Webber, known as the Red Widow. Showrunner Ira Parker has called it his "favorite novella in many ways."

The new season's cast reflects its ambitions. Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody) joins as Lady Rohanne Webber, Babou Ceesay (Alien: Earth) as Ser Bennis of the Brown Shield, and Peter Mullan (Westworld) as Ser Eustace Osgrey. Claffey and Sol Ansell return as Dunk and Egg.

The drought setting is precisely why the production has migrated from Belfast to the Canary Islands. As Parker explained to The Hollywood Reporter: "Book two takes place in a drought, so we can't shoot exteriors in Belfast. We have to go to a sunny location with no water." Production began in Belfast in December 2025, with Parker noting 10 days of material were shot before the Christmas break.

HBO's broader plan has been a three-season arc with one novella per season, covering The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, and finally The Mystery Knight—though Parker is hoping to continue the show for longer.

For now, though, all eyes are on Gran Canaria. The morrow is almost here.

Despite the unexpected filming hiccup, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 is still expected to premiere on HBO and HBO Max sometime in 2027.

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