The Success of ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Is Already Influencing HBO’s Other ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Plans

since game of Thrones Having reached its controversial end, HBO has grand plans in the scope and scale of what it wants to achieve from telling the stories of Westeros and beyond. But for all that epic dreaming, it turns out that the quiet success of one of its intentionally smaller shows could turn it all upside down.

Of course, that show’s on knight of the seven kingdomswhich has charmed audiences with its lighter, more intimate take on the world, despite its sizable protagonist as Ser Duncan the Tall. game of Thrones– a story that’s more about ordinary people living away from and down to the grand politics of the realm, rather than about giant wars and giant, mythical monsters. However, it’s not just the audience who is mesmerized. Apparently so is HBO head Casey Bloys.

“If you think about the novels, it’s a two-hander. It’s two unlikely friends and heroes wandering around Westeros. From its inception, from the starting point, it’s not warring families, it’s not dragons, it’s not giant battles. So the creative comes first, and then the production comes to mind,” Bloys recently told Deadline of the show’s source material, making the case for a project that is smaller in scope.

But according to Bloys, knights‘Success does not mean that every time suddenly game of Thrones The upcoming spinoff will be a miniseries that drops major events from the past or future of Westeros – the world of the Seven Kingdoms and the lands beyond it are large enough to be able to host series ideas of varying sizes, so it could be shown that knight of the seven kingdoms And dragon house Are able to co-exist. Bloys also noted that smaller-scale ideas could also allow for tighter production changes for the show, suggesting a series like knight There may be an annual show instead of large gaps between seasons (knightThe second season of will air next year, to be released between 2026 and 2028 dragon houseThe third and fourth seasons of).

“I’m not thinking about changing the way we make television at all. Our business has always been a portfolio business, which means you can make shows like the last of us Or Drago’s housen, and you can also do small-scale shows like someone somewhere Or chair companyAdding things that can come back on an annual basis, like the pit,” Bloys continued, ”or adding things where creative lends itself Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, I don’t want to say easy production, but something that allows you to produce on a small scale and come back on an annual basis.”

with new game of Thrones With content planned until at least 2028, it will be interesting to see how that lesson is applied to the myriad other spinoff projects still in the works for the franchise. Although Bloys did not comment on further plans, Deadline reported that several projects are being planned at this time, including the recently revived throne Animated project, sequel focusing on Jon Snow and Arya Stark nine journeys is based on the life of dragon houseCorylus Velaryon, The Sea Snake (with animation legend Genndy Tartakovsky), a Nymeria-focused mythological prequel 10,000 shipsand a series based on Aegon Targaryen’s conquest of Westeros.

Time will tell who can get it knight of the seven kingdoms The cure—or bring it to the screen. but at least the future game of Thrones Thanks to Dunk and Egg there’s a little more sparkle on the small screen… we imagine it’s a great pleasure for their creator.

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