The Many-Faced God smiles his many-mouthed smiles upon Westeros once again. Hot on the heels of the season premiere of , HBO has sent spin-off into production. Based on a series of prequel novellas, often referred to colloquially as “Tales Of Dunk And Egg,” follows two of author George R.
R. Martin’s most popular creations: , whose true identity might constitute as a spoiler, even though his identity has been widely available since 1998. Three of its six episodes will be directed by director Sarah Adina Smith, and executive producer Owen Harris will helm the other three.
HBO has also cast several more roles, including Finn Bennett as Aerion Targaryen, Bertie Carvel as Baelor Targaryen, Tanzyn Crawford as Tanselle, Daniel Ings as Ser Lyonel Baratheon, and Sam Spruell as Maekar Targaryen. In development since 2021, the series takes place in between and , but will hopefully do less to remind us of how disappointing the White Walkers arc was. Things are still blond as hell in the Seven Kingdoms, with the Targaryens seated on the Iron Throne and “the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory.
” Martin has been talking about expanding the characters’ roles in the series for more than a decade, dropping teases of the continued adventures of Dunk and Egg since 2014. He wrote on his : In the same post, he discussed the possibility of a Dunk and Egg series, which had a “complicated” rights issue. He wrote that if another studio or network purchased t.
