Game Of Thrones spinoff gets new title, episode count and Black Mirror director

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The Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms CREDIT: HBO

News around HBO’s upcoming Game Of Thrones spinoffs is rare and often not great. Mostly, we hear about various spinoffs being cancelled, like the ill-fated Jon Snow series. When it comes to the story of Dunk and Egg, the news tends to be a bit better.

Not long ago we learned who would be playing Ser Duncan the Tall and his young squire, and the casting choices seem great. Now we’ve learned three new things: The series will get a new name; a Black Mirror director will be directing half its episodes; and we now know the episode count.

The new title is: A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms. This is simply a truncated version of A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight. While I’m glad that mouthful has been abandoned, I wish it was just called The Hedge Knight, which is half the number of words and catchier, though less obviously tied to the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, thus less valuable as a title for a Game Of Thrones spinoff.

The number of episodes is a bit more disappointing. We will only get six for the first season, which is four fewer than a normal Thrones season or Season 1 of House of the Dragon. Season 2 of HotD will have 8. Then again, the Dunk & Egg novellas are lots shorter, so it makes sense to some degree.

Finally, Owen Harris will be directing half of these according to The Hollywood Reporter. Harris is known for his excellent Black Mirror episodes “Be Right Back” (S2E1) and “San Junipero” (S3E4). He’s also directed the premiere episode of Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone and four episodes in Peacock’s adventure-thriller series Mrs. Davis, which reminds me I really need to finish that show.

Source: Forbes

 

[huttont 5,828]

I want a spinoff based on the far east or the summer isles/sothoryos. I wanna explore more of The Known World. But excited nonetheless

[Siena 6,383]

We need Aegon’s Conquest with Rebecca Ferguson playing Visenya or literally any Targaryen women  that's my dream 

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8 hours ago, huttont said:

I want a spinoff based on the far east or the summer isles/sothoryos. I wanna explore more of The Known World. But excited nonetheless

Have you seen the extended map of the world done by an artist on Reddit?

It looks so amazing.  It seems Westeros is the least interesting place on Planetos. 

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7 hours ago, Siena said:

We need Aegon’s Conquest with Rebecca Ferguson playing Visenya or literally any Targaryen women  that's my dream 

Controversial take but looking at Timothée Chalamet in Dune I think he'd make a better Aegon in HOTD...

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49 minutes ago, Westerosi said:

Have you seen the extended map of the world done by an artist on Reddit?

It looks so amazing.  It seems Westeros is the least interesting place on Planetos. 

There’s a really cool YouTube channel that explains various areas on the extended map.