Westeros

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:

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

Entertainment Weekly has the first exclusive interview with Knight of the Seven Kingdoms show-runner Ira Parker, ahead of the first public preview of the show at New York Comic Con this coming Thursday during the panel, “HBO / HBO Max presents A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – Journey into Westeros with Dunk and Egg”.

In the interview, a few interesting points come up. Front and center is the fact that for thematic reasons, this show will not open with the expansive opening title of its predecessors, but a simple title card before launching right into the story. Parker states to EW:

“All decisions came down to Dunk, trying to channel the type of person he is into every aspect of this show, even the title sequence… The title sequences on the original [Game of Thrones] and House of Dragon are big and epic and incredible. Ramin Djawadi’s score is orchestral and large and beautiful. That’s not really Dunk’s M.O. He’s plain and he’s simple and he’s to-the-point. He doesn’t have a lot of flash to him.”

Parker then goes on to note that he promised George R.R. Martin that, per EW, “he would never shift to a perspective of anyone in the upper class. Viewers will always stick with Dunk, Egg, and this lower rim of Westeros society: the armorers, the performers, the barmaids, the whores, and the like.”

And then he says some rather interesting things about the state of House Targaryen at the time of the tourney at Ashford. More on that below, plus how to watch the panel livestreamed courtesy of Popverse!

George R.R. Martin with star Peter Claffey and show runner Ira Parker (right).