Winter, apparently, is not coming back.
Game of Thrones star Kit Harington has crushed the dreams of many fans by shutting down talk of a Jon Snow sequel to the massive HBO hit.
“There are no plans for it at the moment,” Harington told The Associated Press in an interview while promoting his new film, Blood for Dust.
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Game of Thrones ended in 2019 after eight hugely successful seasons.
Then, rumours of various spinoffs began to emerge.
Fans had to wait three years for the only one that’s aired thus far, the prequel House of the Dragon, which is set 200 years before Game of Thrones.
A sequel centered around the popular character of Jon Snow, who started Game of Thrones as an outcast and brother of the Night’s Watch and fought his way to more power in Westeros and the truth of his ancestry, had reportedly been in development for a few years.
“We sort of threw around a few ideas,” Harington, 37, said.
“Nothing really stuck, and we’re going to leave it there for the moment.”
The Snow-centric sequel isn’t the first spinoff to be put on ice.
In 2019, HBO reportedly dropped a prequel set thousands of years beforehand.
Starring Naomi Watts, a pilot episode was filmed but never aired, and the project went back in the can.
The second season of House of the Dragon is set to premiere on June 16.
However, if that’s not enough to satiate fans thirsty for more GoT content — and despite the Jon Snow series being put on the backburner — there will be another prequel series.
Next up in the franchise is Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, set 100 years before the dramas that unfold in Game of Thrones.
Last week Warner Brothers announced that Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell would star in the series, based on George R.R. Martin’s Dunk & Egg novellas.
As for Harington, he recently partnered again with HBO for an appearance on the third season of the network’s drama Industry, which premieres later this year.
The actor said he was “really excited” about being on the show, based on London’s cutthroat financial world.
“I just think it’s one of the most unique, interesting, tonally, exciting pieces out there,” Harington said.
The actor famously admitted that he had a breakdown towards the end of making Game of Thrones, the show that thrust him from obscurity into the spotlight.
“People would treat me like the character, who was a hero and good,” Harington told The Times.
“But in my life, personally I didn’t feel like that at all.
“And that, I think, (caused) some kind of psychological scarring.
“I was drinking a lot. I was going through addiction and everything that entails and hiding things and all sorts.
“And that was the polar opposite of the character I was playing, who couldn’t tell a lie.”
The actor said he hit “rock bottom” whilst performing in a West End play in 2018 and 2019, where he played an alcoholic.
“The character and me did get very mixed up at that point,” he said.
“I didn’t know who I was, really.
“Continually drinking while playing an alcoholic. It was at its worst.
“It was during that play that I sort of collapsed and told people around me what was going on and finally took action.”
Harington went into rehab and was also diagnosed with ADHD.
Slowly, he began to rebuild after Game of Thrones finished, going on to appear in Eternal, Blood for Dust, Extrapolations and an acclaimed stage production of Henry V.
As for learning he had ADHD, the actor said his life “hinged” on receiving the diagnosis.
“Luckily it was the right place at the right time,” he said.
“I managed to forge a new life from there.”
Harington married his Game of Thrones co-star, Rose Leslie, in 2018.
They have a son, born in 2021, and a daughter, born in 2023.
– with AP
