The Next Game of Thrones Spinoff Is Now Coming Next Year
If there's one thing George R.R. Martin fans know about, it's waiting for that next piece of Game of Thrones-adjacent entertainment. Most famously, of course, we've been waiting well over a decade for The Winds of Winter, the next book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. But now another project has joined the waiting game: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the HBO spin-off series based on Martin's Westeros-set 'Dunk and Egg' tales. Originally slated for late 2025, it's now arriving in 2026.
Deadline reports that at todays's Warner Bros. Discovery upfront presentation, HBO and Max boss Casey Bloys announced the new date. The trade's sources noted it would arrive 'at the top of 2026,' which, to be fair, isn't too far off from the original plan.
That's still sooner than House of the Dragon season three, which has been busily adding new cast members since kicking off production in March and has no release date set yet. And what's a few more months, especially for a show as promising as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms? Martin's original stories, collected in the novella The Hedge Knight, are delightful, and the author may have become prickly over House of the Dragon, but he's had nothing but praise thus far about this new spin-off.
Here's the official synopsis of the show, shared by HBO when it went into production in June 2024: 'A century before the events of Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros… a young, naïve but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg. Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, great destinies, powerful foes, and dangerous exploits all await these improbable and incomparable friends.'
For now, there are no updates on The Winds of Winter—or those new Dunk and Egg stories Martin was teasing back in 2023!—but HBO, at least, can be counted on to eventually deliver the goods.
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