Two days after the premiere of the new season of ‘The House of the Dragon’, HBO has distributed the first official image of its next spin-off set in the Seven Kingdoms.
It is the adaptation of the novel by George RR Martin ‘The Errant Knight’that we will see on screen in 2025 under the title ‘The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’.
Starring Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell in the title roles of Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire eggsthe story is set a century before the original ‘Game of Thrones’ series.
What can we expect from the series?
The series will tell the adventures of Duncan, the squire of a wandering knight named Ser Arlan who has just died, and a “bald” boy who crosses his path whom he calls Egg. Of course Egg is not a simple stable boy as Duncan thinks, but Aegon Vwhom history would end up knowing as Aegon the Unlikely. That is to say, we are facing a very young future king who would be the father of the one known as Mad Kingand his own great-grandfather Jon Snow.
Together, they will travel through Westeros between battles and stories that will shape the future of the Seven Kingdoms.
As fiction, the story should tell us the evolution of Duncan towards a future that he did not expect at all, taking into account his origins, and the growth of a boy who would end up being a king who he fooled around too much with sorcery, obsessed with the return of the dragons, not present 90 years before Jon Snow goes to the Wall with his uncle and Brandon Stark “falls” out of a window in Winterfell.
The cast has been joined by Finn Bennett as Aerion Targaryen, Bertie Carvel as Baelor Targaryen, Tanzyn Crawford as Tanselle, Daniel Ings as Ser Lyonel Barotheon and Sam Spruell as Maekar Targaryen.
‘The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ will feature seven episodesdistributed in its address between Sarah Adina Smith and Owen Harriswho also serves as executive producer.
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