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With a month to go until the release of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO has released its first behind-the-scenes look at the show with sound bites from showrunner Ira Parker, as well as George R.R. Martin, Peter Claffey, and more!
HBO has also released a number of new stills from the show, featuring the principal cast, which you can see below.
As is tradition, HBO has released its latest “what’s upcoming next year” video, and this one features a number of new moments from House of the Dragon‘s third season including a great glimpse at Lord Ormund Hightower (James Norton) in a breastplate engraved with images of the the High Tower, the Mother, and the Warrior, as well as Corlys Velaryon, Alyn of Hull, the queens Alicent and Rhaenyra, and Prince Aemond.
While no official release date has been given, by sheer happenstance Matt Smith was on the UK show This Morning and let slip that he thought it will premiere this August:
The HBO video also has some clips from the forthcoming A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, but pretty sure it’s nothing we have not seen before.
As promised yesterday, here is HBO’s final trailer for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms ahead of its January 18th release:
HBO has just dropped a teaser for the final A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms trailer, which will be released tomorrow. It captures one of the early moments in George R.R. Martin’s original “The Hedge Knight” that won the hearts of many readers:
Hold your horses. The final #AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms trailer drops TOMORROW. pic.twitter.com/r2UoYLGV60
— Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) December 3, 2025
HBO has also released a number of new images of cast members!
With the release of the trailer for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , we thought we’d capture a few images and comment on them—who the actors and characters are, and any particular details that catch our attention.
For those who have not read “The Hedge Knight”, there will be spoilers!
And here it is, folks, the much-anticipated trailer to HBO Max’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms:
And here’s the link to the livestream to the NYCC panel, courtesy of ReedPop and Popverse:
And the beat of the marketing drums continues to grow. As we anticipated, HBO Max is starting to push more and more information out there ahead of tomorrow’s NYCC panel (which George R.R. Martin has also posted about), and now we get a preview of the trailer featuring Dunk and Egg overlooking the sprawl of pavilions and tents at Ashford Meadow:
A humble beginning to an extraordinary journey. TRAILER TOMORROW. #NYCC pic.twitter.com/Jnxw5rtklP
— Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) October 8, 2025
Following yesterday’s post on an EW exclusive interview with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms show runner Ira Parker, as well as the fact that the NYCC panel would be livestreamed by Popverse, HBO has gone ahead and starting dialing up the excitement by releasing our first official poster for the upcoming show, underscoring the January release date. We think it’s a pretty clever image
After the Emmy Awards, where HBO Max shows took a combined 30 wins (including Best Drama Series with The Pitt), CEO Casey Bloys held court with the press such as The Wrap and Deadline) at an after-party and discussed a number of different topic, covering a wide range of their shows. But for fans of the universe HBO is making out of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, the most interesting details related to the scheduling of both A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and the third season of House of the Dragon.
On the former, Bloys revealed that they are planning to premiere A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms this January, so just four months from now. As noted back in May, originally the show had aimed for a 2025 release but was bumped. With this January window apparently locked in, it seems it only just missed the original target.
Despite initial aims to get this out this year, it seems like A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has ultimately shifted entirely out of 2025, and will now be an early 2026 release according to a first look at a trailer for the show revealed to press and industry professionals at the WBD upfront.
Whether that trailer will also be released today or in the future, we do not know.
Via The Hollywood Reporter, a wide-ranging interview with HBO’s Head of Drama, Francesca Orsi, touched on the budget of the upcoming A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. To quote her in the piece:
As much as there was a day of budgets being a bit more robust and now, while they continue to be for a number of shows, there are some shows that we’re being charged with making for far less. I have an example that really took me aback. We’re doing a Game of Throne spinoff titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms for under $10 million in episode, [which is peanuts] relative to what Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon cost episodically. And the battle sequences that the directors achieved match those across Game of Thrones and are a fraction of the price, so it’s a lesson for us that we need to be challenging these budgets.
Obviously, the story it adapts takes place basically in one location, and features a tourney rather than actual battles, so that’s part of it. But it also sounds like part of the appeal of adapting “The Hedge Knight” was its smaller scale that meant it could be done at a lower budget.
Deadline has a detailed report concerning everything said in a recent interview by HBO’s Head of Drama Series & Films, Francesca Orsi, regarding the Game of Thrones franchise. Besides the usual update on House of the Dragon and its massive opening for season 3 (cameras start rolling in March, according to reports), Orsi reveals that HBO’s so bullish on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms that if they renew it they may well order two seasons to be filmed back-to-back.
Mark the date: July 22, 2025 will see the release of the latest calendar based on the works of George R.R. Martin. This time, award-winning artist Tom Kidd will be providing 12 paintings (plus a 13th, bonus fold-out poster) inspired by the adventures of Dunk and Egg. This is not Kidd’s first foray into George’s work, having provided art for the illustrated limited edition of the novel Dying of the Light.
But speaking of those adventures, there’s one rather interesting detail. From the official blurb:
Journey across Westeros and Essos with artist Tom Kidd, as we follow the adventures of hedge knight, Dunk, and his squire, Egg, inspired by their tale in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Featuring the pre-history of the bestselling series, as well as youthful glimpses of some of the older players in A Game of Thrones, here is the width and breadth of the Seven Kingdoms and Essos as you have never seen it before, full of majesty and sweeping vistas.
This would be the first we’ve ever heard of the fact that Ser Duncan the Tall would find himself in Essos in the course of his life. Quite interesting!
Max has put out a new video about upcoming Max and HBO programing, starting with the much-anticipated Dune: Prophecy, and moving on to programming for 2025 such as The Gilded Age, White Lotus, The Last of Us... and of course we get some glimpses of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms:
Comparing it to the previous teaser, all the footage seems to be exactly the same as what we’ve seen before, which is disappointing. But it’s nice to see it featured prominently among some other very anticipated shows.
(Also, speaking of HBO and Max, if you have not gotten around to watching The Penguin, the finale just aired and really capped the limited series off. Tremendous performances from Colin Farrell and Cristin Miloti, in particular.)