Kit Harington May Play Jon Snow in ‘Game of Thrones’ Sequel

Winter is coming … once more. HBO is creating a Sport of Thrones sequel about Jon Snow — and Package Harington is in talks to return.

The community is within the early phases of manufacturing on the brand new spinoff present, The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Thursday, June 16. If the sequence strikes ahead, then the U.Okay. native, 35, will reprise his position because the beloved fantasy character.

The present would mark the primary sequel to Sport of Thrones, which wrapped up in Could 2019 after eight seasons. The spinoff sequence The Home of Dragon, set to premiere on HBO in August, is a prequel set 300 years earlier than the occasions of Sport of Thrones.

Within the authentic present, Jon Snow joined the Night time’s Watch, the place he rose to grow to be Lord Commander and was subsequently murdered by mutineers. After Melisandre (Carice van Houten) introduced him again to life, he grew to become King within the North, then allied with Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) to struggle in opposition to the White Walkers.

Alongside the best way, he found that his father wasn’t Ned Stark (Sean Bean), who adopted him as a child and pretended Jon was the product of an extramarital affair. His actual father was Daenerys’ late brother Rhaegar Targaryen (Wilf Scolding), whereas his mom was Ned’s sister, Lyanna Stark (Aisling Franciosi) — and his actual identify was Aegon Targaryen.

Jon Snow was Harington’s first TV position, and the present’s recognition catapulted him to a stage of fame that many actors by no means expertise. “You get individuals shouting at you on the road, ‘Are you lifeless?’” the Eternals star recalled to Selection in March 2019. “On the identical time, it’s important to have this look. Your entire neuroses — and I’m as neurotic as any actor — get heightened with that stage of focus.”

After the present aired its ultimate episode, the Pompeii actor checked himself right into a “wellness retreat” to cope with stress points and alcohol abuse. He later pointed to the sequence’ intense ultimate seasons as one cause he determined to hunt assist.

“I went by means of some psychological well being difficulties after Thrones — and in the course of the finish of Thrones, to be trustworthy — and I feel it was on to do with the character of the present and what I’ve been doing for years,” Harington defined throughout a July 2021 interview on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Present. “I feel I took a type of break after Thrones the place I stated, ‘I don’t wish to work for a yr. I wish to actually form of consider myself.’ I’m actually glad I did that.”

Through the drama’s authentic run, the Brimstone star was open about how the present’s grueling schedule and tough filming course of affected the actors. “The final season of Thrones appeared to be designed to interrupt us. Everybody was damaged on the finish,” he informed GQ Australia in January 2019. “I don’t know if we have been crying as a result of we have been unhappy it was ending or if we have been crying as a result of it was so f—king tiring. We have been sleep disadvantaged.”

Nonetheless, Harington admitted that his final day of filming as Jon hit him in methods he didn’t count on. “My ultimate day of capturing, I felt nice. … Then I went to do my final photographs and began hyperventilating a bit,” he informed Esquire in April 2019. “Then they referred to as, ‘Wrap!’ And I simply f–king broke down. It was this onslaught of reduction and grief about not having the ability to do that once more.”

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