The second season of House of the Dragon, the first Game of Thrones prequel series to air on HBO, wrapped up last month. It'll be 2026 before we see more of that show. However, HBO isn't going to let us go the whole of 2026 without another visit to Westeros. A new prequel series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, will air its first season sometime in 2025.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is based on George R.R. Martin's Dunk and Egg novellas, about a very strong (if somewhat thick) knight named Dunk and his clever, much smaller squire Egg. The novellas are set decades after the events of House of the Dragon and decades before the events of Game of Thrones. There are no dragons, and at least at the start of the series, there's no war. In the three novellas yet published, Dunk and Egg simply wander the Seven Kingdoms going on adventures. It promises to be a lighter, lower-stakes kind of series than Game of Thrones fans are used to.
Dunk, aka Ser Duncan the Tall, will be played by Peter Claffey. Egg will be played by Dexter Sol Ansell, who's been chronicling his journey with the show on his Instagram. Egg, by the way, gets his name partially because he's completely bald, hence this video of Ansell getting shorn:
Today on his Instagram Stories, Ansell shared a video of himself marking the end of filming on the first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Check it out:
Dexter Sol Ansell, who will star as Prince Aegon Targaryen (Egg) in HBO’s ‘A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS,’ bids farewell to Belfast following the completion of filming Season 1. 🥚 pic.twitter.com/aeQngsBYZx
— westerosies (@westerosies) September 15, 2024
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms had been filming since June, so shooting lasted about three months. That's less time than it takes to film a season of House of the Dragon, but like we said, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is smaller in scale. It will only have six episodes.
The first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will adapt the first novella in Martin's Dunk and Egg series, "The Hedge Knight." Martin has published two more up to this point: "The Sworn Sword" and "The Mystery Night." He's said he intends to write many more, but this is the man who's been working on The Winds of Winter for 13 years, so maybe don't put too much stock in that.
We don't know if HBO has renewed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms for a second season yet, but I'm intrigued by the way Ansell bids goodbye to Belfast, which is where the first season was filmed. "See you soon." Does that means he expects to go back? Or is saying that to us, the viewers? Like, we'll see Dunk and Egg in action soon?
That's a mystery yet to be solved. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will premiere on HBO and Max sometime in 2025. An exact release date has yet to be announced.
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