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Kit Harington was talking more about the Game of Thrones Jon Snow sequel.
So we'll break it all down.
I know there's lots of questions about what's going on
because there was all this news about.
Game of Thrones sequels and prequels that they had canceled
or paused development on in some that were continuing.
They are still working on a bunch of them all.
Explain which ones were canceled and which ones are continuing.
If you're brand new to the channel, of course
I will do videos for all of them, just like
I did for the original Game of Thrones series, just like I'm
doing for the House of the Dragon episodes.
They're getting ready to film
House of the Dragon Season two as we speak right now as a me posting this video.
It sounds like that's probably going
to wind up being released in either spring or summer 2024, though
I'm not expecting them to release House of the Dragon Season two until next year.
But this is Kit Harington talking about his Game of Thrones Jon Snow sequel.
There's there's rumors out there that there's a there's a Game of Thrones
spinoff that features your character, Jon Snow.
I can't say anything on that.
Is it is it happening?
Well, it's, you know, do you A year and a half.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I do want to have it.
You know, I get recognized a little less nowadays and.
Oh, wow.
And it kind of hurts my ego, you know?
And we could see a Game of Thrones spin off right now with Jon Snow.
All right, We'll do this together.
We'll do it together.
The reason
why he's joking about it there is because they just had
a convention where he was talking about the character
and like where he would pick up
next, like things that they didn't address during the main Game of Thrones series
that they would potentially address in this future.
Jon Snow sequel after the events of the main series.
I think if you asked him, he said he would have thought he got off lightly.
He, you know, at the end of the show,
when we find him in that cell, he's preparing to be beheaded.
And he wants to be he's done like the fact he goes to
the war is the greatest gift to him
and also the greatest cos
he's going to go back up to the place with all this history
and live out his life thinking about how he killed down here
and live out his life thinking about Ygritte dying in his arms
and the guys lives thinking about how he can only
live out his life, thinking about all of this trauma
and that.
That's interesting.
So I think
when we leave it at the end of the show,
there's always this feeling of like, I think we wanted
some kind of little smile and things are okay.
He's not okay.
But it really goes down quite deeply to Jon's internal conflict,
which is that he doesn't know who he is.
He's never known who he is.
He knows he prefers to identify with being a bastard,
but he kind of wanted to be a star.
And by the end of the show, he has this Targaryen thing thrown in as well.
And we don't really see what is
when we don't get time to see where
that sits with him.
But I think that he doesn't
he's never really known.
He's been told who he is.
All through his life, being told who he could be, who he should be.
He's actually quite far away from knowing who,
who and hasn't had time in our show
to really center on who John is.
He doesn't have time still, but I think
he's Jon Snow.
He's not John Stark and he's not Jon's Hungarian.
He's Jon Snow.
He's really just talking about the simple stuff.
Like that's just the beginning.
The whole idea that he never really figured out who he was.
They really brushed over that
during the original series just because they blew
through the final season so quickly.
But it is one of the Game of Thrones sequels,
prequel series that they're continuing to develop.
The reason why things aren't moving so quickly, like the reason
why you don't hear people talking about all these sequels and prequels more
is because of the big Warner Brothers Discovery merger last year,
the big debacle that happened with that,
like things were getting canceled left and right.
You probably heard about a bunch of people's
favorite shows in movies just outright being wiped from HBO.
Max At the time, they were trying to wipe $3 billion of debt off of their books.
Is part of the merger.
And because of that, George R.R.
Martin said that even the Game of Thrones people at HBO who are in charge
of developing all these sequels and prequels,
even working on House of the Dragon are big revenue drivers.
Like all of them love
all the Game of Thrones stuff because it's a huge money earner for them.
Even they were told to slow down on the development
of a lot of their sequels and prequels.
Just because it takes hundreds of millions of dollars
just to get one of the shows off the ground in originally,
like before all the big buyout nonsense when they still had tons of money
and they were developing a bunch of shows all at the same time.
AT&T basically told HBO that they wanted to get to a point where there were
to like multiple Game of Thrones series on the air in the same year.
So it would have been a situation where you have like House
of the Dragon season two and season one of the Jon Snow sequel.
Now, basically what's happened is they've slowed that down.
So it's more like one series per year.
There might be a point where they get to two Game of Thrones series per year.
That'd be fantastic, but I'm not expecting it anytime soon.
Don't hold your breath on that.
It would mean HBO spending about a half
a billion dollars every year to get 20 episodes of television out.
The new Warner Brothers CEO is like, Please don't do that.
Please don't spend a half a billion dollars.
Spend like half of that.
Also, what's going on right now is that George R.R.
Martin just literally
has to help them write more canon material that they would base
the Jon Snow sequel on because he's not going to let them make a bad show like it.
Where the main show ended, he resigned a new contract
to develop more shows for HBO in the Game of Thrones universe,
and as part of that contract,
he has way more say, way more power in what actually happens.
In fact, for House of the Dragon, he actually worked with Ryan Condal,
the showrunner, to develop the show before they brought it to HBO.
Like he's the one that went to Ryan Condal said,
You come on and you develop this House of the Dragon series with me.
Then they went to HBO and George R.R.
Martin said, Why don't you do this show? My idea.
Let's turn this into a series instead of that blood moon idea.
For the most part, George R.R.
Martin is helping them develop all the shows,
but some of them he's more involved in than others.
So the ones that he's involved in
have a much better chance of actually making it to screen.
And one of the big surprises of the Jon Snow sequel is that it was actually Kit
Harrington's idea.
He's the one who put a team together and then brought the idea to HBO,
like, hey, you know, I kind of want to do a sequel.
Can we do that?
And HBO was like, Hell, yes, we'll do that.
There have been several ideas for a Game of Thrones sequels
with the main actors, like an ARIA show set with her going west of Westeros.
Like what happens to her after the events of the ending?
The general rule of thumb
is that any of the Game of Thrones sequels or spinoff series that are centered
around one of the original main characters from the original series
have priority over a lot of the lesser ideas for prequel series that they have.
Like, Oh, both of the original actors want to come back.
All right, let's fast track that idea, though, because it takes George R.R.
Martin so long to write new material
like we've been waiting for Winds of Winter for over a decade now.
And because of them pinching pennies at HBO, it's just going to take them
a little bit longer to actually work this idea out.
They also haven't said if this Jon Snow sequel would be a one off,
like it'd be a limited series or it would continue on for multiple seasons.
I've already addressed their plan for the House of the Dragon series.
They've actually turned that into like a much bigger idea.
Originally, it was just going to be its own
small shows that around The Dance of the Dragons,
but they basically turned it into a fire and blood show
that will cover the events of many different eras of the Targaryen history,
and they'll just continue to call it House of the Dragon.
So even though House of the Dragon might only take them up to like three
or four seasons, when they get to season four or season five,
they'll treat it like an anthology series, recast some of the actors
and do the Blackfire rebellion and so on and so forth throughout their history,
backwards and forwards.
That's how they'd also do Aegon's Conquest.
They've talked about doing Aegon's conquest
as part of the House of the Dragon,
but they would probably wait till after they're done
with the dance of the Dragons
or go down the list of all of them explaining which ones were confirmed
to still be going, which ones were just delayed
a little bit longer, and which ones were outright canceled.
First off is House of the Dragon.
Of course, they're still making it. Like, I literally just talked about it.
They're filming season two really soon.
Ryan Condal, the showrunner, said
that they specifically reference the Crown on Netflix
as a show that would jump through time with different actors playing characters.
So they're just going to continue doing that for many different time
periods, many different events in the Targaryen history.
That's how you get ten plus seasons of House of the Dragon.
They treat it more like an anthology.
The next one they're still making is the Jon Snow.
Game of Thrones sequel.
This is true basically for any sequel show starring one of the core main characters
from the original series, Arya Stark is another example.
Maisie Williams is like, Well, you have to come up with a good enough idea.
Of course I'll come back and I'll do an ARIA series.
After the original show ended,
there have been talk of doing an ARIA series
at some point for her adventures
on the Western continent, like what's west of Westeros?
What did she do when she left on that ship?
The only thing about the Jon Snow series, they probably just delayed it
for a little while and won't actually start filming it
until they announce producers, directors or supporting cast.
So I'm not expecting them to start filming this year or even next year.
Like they probably don't
want to air multiple Game of Thrones series at the same time right now.
The next big one is Another House, the Dragon based series.
So Ryan Condal, showrunner of the House of the Dragon,
said that before he started working on the series right now with George R.R.
Martin, he was actually pitching HBO a Tales of Duncan Egg Series
since he jumped the House of the Dragon.
It's been an enormous success for them.
They're making like a billion seasons of it at this point.
What they'll probably do is just slot in the Tales of Duncan
Egg as one of the events that they cover later on in the timeline
might be a long time before they actually cover it,
but they're still probably planning on doing it within the house.
The Dragon Larger Idea.
The events of Duncan Egg follows their Duncan the Tall, who's the ancestor
of Brienne of Tarth and egg, the future egg on the fifth King of Westeros.
But when he was a boy, they referenced him during the original series Egg as Mr.
Aman's younger brother.
That's how old Mr. Ammon is. He's ancient.
He references him when he died.
The other cool thing about Mr.
Ammon in Eggs Back story is that there's a little bit of crossover
with the Blood Raven, who became the three Eyed Raven.
They'll probably cover his backstory during
a future season of House of the Dragon when they cover the Blackfire rebellions.
There's a Sea Snake series about Corliss Valerian
nine voyages set earlier in his life, so it would be a much younger
actor playing the character.
All the artifacts that they featured around the High Tide Castle,
and they featured them pretty prominently are meant
to be trophies that he took from each of his nine famous voyages around the world.
They're mostly taken from parts of Essos that we haven't seen on any of the series,
like the original Game of Thrones series or House of the Dragon.
Yet they've been talking about this series like it's a completely different thing,
like not part of the larger House of the Dragon type of series.
Would they probably done it, just delayed it indefinitely.
It sounds like they still plan on making it eventually, but not for a long time.
There's a Princess Nymeria and the 10,000 Ship series.
They even tease that they were planning on doing it
during House of the Dragon Episode one
The page that Raniere and Allison are reading from in that book
as Rhaenyra tears it out of the book is the story of Mary in the 10,000 ships.
Later during House of Dragon Episode ten, Allison actually
sends her the page back is a sign of their former friendship.
Like I kept this page the whole time.
Nymeria is meant to be this really inspirational figure
to a lot of women in Westeros, particularly to Rhaenyra,
because she was a woman of great power
who's remembered for doing very great things.
Originally she was a princess from the Raynor people over here in Essos.
They were pushed out of their ancestral homeland by the ancient Bulgarians.
During the expansion of the freehold.
They retreated with the 10,000 ships to Westeros landing in Dorne
and conquering the area.
The Martell's descend from her line, which is part of the reason
why the Martell's have hated the Targaryens in the crown for so long.
They didn't bend the knee during Aegon's conquest and only joined
the other six kingdoms as part of Westeros much, much later in the timeline.
Well, after the events of the Dance of the Dragons,
there was a series about the Golden Empire set in the distant past, long
before the rise of the valyrian
freehold set in this country over here in eastern essos.
It sounds like it was one of the series
that they delayed indefinitely, like effectively canceled.
Maybe it will come back in some form in the distant future.
There was a series set in fleabottom after the events of House of the Dragon,
but before the main series, Fleabottom
is this area of King's Landing that we visited
several times on the main series and on House of the Dragon.
Damon spends a lot of his time there horsing around, as does Egg on the second.
I believe they canceled this.
I don't think they're planning on making a flea bottom series anymore.
There was also the infamous Blood
Moon prequel series that they canceled a long time ago.
It was set before the first long night, thousands of thousands of years ago.
This was the famous pilot that they spent $30 million
filming, only to cancel it after seeing the finished version.
It wasn't that it was bad or anything like that,
like they still made a very good episode of television.
It's just the HBO came up with a stronger idea
that they felt like would earn them more money.
Ultimately, it'd be more popular, which was House of the Dragon.
There were also a couple adult animation based game of Thrones series
they were working on. George R.R.
Martin said he was really excited about them,
but they were treated more like love, death and robots,
where each episode had different styles of animation telling different stories.
It's not like it would have been really cool,
but this is also one of the ones they canceled
because if you haven't seen the news, Warner Brothers
has been canceling stuff left and right, like I said, to save money.
But of all the stuff
they've been canceling, the stuff they've been quickest to cancel
has been the animation.
As we get more information about some of these other sequels
and prequels over the next couple of years, of course,
I'll continue to do videos for them and for House of the Dragon Season two.
As we get more footage from the set,
everyone click here for my House of the Dragon Season
two teaser video and learn about some of the new characters are introducing
and click here for my game of Thrones Alternate ending and deleted scenes video.
Thank you so much for watching.
Everyone stay safe and I'll see you guys in the next one