{"id":112196,"date":"2025-10-09T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112196\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:25:08","slug":"first-trailer-for-game-of-thrones-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112196\/","title":{"rendered":"First Trailer for Game of Thrones Prequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe trailer for the first new Game of Thrones<\/a> series in three years has finally arrived. <\/p>\n

\n\tHBO<\/a> revealed the debut trailer for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms<\/a> at New York Comic Con on Thursday (watch it, below). The company also announced a premiere date: Jan. 18. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe trailer showcases a project that brings a more Andor-like vibe to the franchise \u2014 more grounded and gritty than HBO\u2019s other GoT prequel project, House of the Dragon. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe six-episode first season is an adaptation of Martin\u2019s novella The Hedge Knight and stars Peter Claffey as a wandering \u201chedge knight\u201d Dunk, and Dexter Sol Ansell as his ward, Egg. The show is co-created by author George R.R. Martin<\/a> and showrunner Ira Parker, who were on the NYCC panel along with Claffey and Ansell. Together they discussed bringing a new tone of action, perspective and class experience to the world of Westeros for the series that was filmed in parts of Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think the biggest thing about this show \u2014 finding its place sandwiched between these two [other shows] \u2014 was just tone, tone, tone, for us,\u201d Parker said. \u201cThese novellas have so much hope, but they also have really brutal elements of this world that I think we\u2019ve all come to love in Westeros, where anything can happen. There is a level of unpredictability that resonates with people because that\u2019s just how your life is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tContinued Parker: \u201cFollowing Dunk on this journey \u2014 a very grounded, gritty, earthy, ground-up sort of feel, we\u2019ve never had this perspective before of somebody who grew up in the slums of King\u2019s Landing as an orphan who didn\u2019t have a name, didn\u2019t have an inheritance and didn\u2019t have any money; doesn\u2019t have the best training in the whole world. He\u2019s just trying to make it. He\u2019s trying to go out and do something hard that\u2019s he\u2019s never done before. He\u2019s out of his comfort zone. And hopefully, a lot of that will resonate with our audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn terms of perspective on the series, like the novellas \u2014 and unlike Game of Thrones \u2014 the panelists underscored that this story is led by Dunk in almost every way. \u201cEverything is Dunk forward, and honestly, this affected everything from our music to the cameras and the lenses and shots to costumes,\u201d Parker said. \u201cI hope people forgive us for the level of unpolished that we exhibit in the show. It is intentional and is inherent. We think it gives a nice, cool new vibe to Westeros.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIn terms of how Parker and his team captured the anticipated and highly detailed action sequences of Martin\u2019s novellas, Parker noted that they stuck to their rule of following Dunk, \u201cand let this character [lead] in terms of tone and POV and the mud and the dirt. We want the audience to feel what he feels. We want to be with him as closely as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t action scenes cut up very rapidly. It\u2019s not the big, sprawling Game of Thrones that we\u2019ve come to know and love. This is close and this is intimate, this is brutal and this is hard. This is what it would have been like.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tClaffey called the experience of Dunk and playing him a big, violent therapy session for someone just trying to survive. \u201c[The character is] almost half human, half dog,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m an enormous Lord of the Rings fan, and I hope a lot of people are. But this world that George has created, there are a lot more sinister and adult themes that are presented, and a lot of treachery, backstabbing and it\u2019s hard to find your way. And for a lot of people in this world, those things pay off. I think for somebody to have the valor in that world is something to really look up to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cI really, really adore Dunk\u2019s want and need to maintain the morals that knighthood has probably [been] forgotten in Westeros. I think it takes a lot more to be a knight in Westeros than it does in Middle-earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn terms of the duo\u2019s on- and offscreen relationship, Ansell noted that the meeting between Dunk and Egg was also the first scene they filmed. \u201cOur bond was amazing,\u201d Ansell said. \u201cThe whole way through, we had such a great relationship.\u201d Claffey added that \u201cDexter mentioned he started filming at the age of 9, and he\u2019s 11 now. \u2026 You realize you\u2019re working with a 25-year-old in an 11-year-old\u2019s body. He\u2019s just incredibly mature, and I\u2019m really in awe of [him].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt other points in the panel, Martin spent several moments discussing the inspiration for the novellas, pointing to his love of jousting. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved Medieval tournaments in other [films] and of course we had several tournaments in Game of Thrones,\u201d Martin explained. \u201cBut not at the center of it. [So] I said, \u2018I want to do something that\u2019s entirely set during a tournament,\u2019 because I found tournaments were very exciting. I set them a challenge, which I think Ira has and his people have delivered. You won\u2019t see it tonight, but you will later. I said, \u2018Let\u2019s do the best jousting put on film\u2019 \u2014 a modest little challenge for Ira and his group.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also noted that a critic, back when Game of Thrones debuted, ultimately shaped his decision to do the novellas. \u201cWhat one of the people said was, \u2018Here it is, another fantasy, and we get to hear more about kings and lords and lords and kings and kings of lords. Nobody ever writes about the common people\u2019 \u2014 the small folk, as I call them. And that resonated with me.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ll never be a knight,\u201d Martin continued. \u201cBut I am from Bayonne, New Jersey, which is right across the water. And my father was a longshoreman; he worked on the docks, and my mother worked for Maidenform. They had a factory there, and she was an inspector on the line. I lived in the projects, and I went to public school, so I\u2019m the furthest thing from the lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMartin also pointed to how his previous work in character perspective \u2014 multiple in the Game of Thrones books \u2014 also shaped the novellas. \u201cWe switched between the viewpoints [in GoT], but when I began this, I said, \u2018No, I want to have a tight focus on a single point of view. Everything we see should be through the eyes of Dunk.\u2019 That was something to discuss when we were developing it. I was strongly in favor of keeping it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMartin offered praise for episodes five and six, in particular. Speaking to episode five, Martin noted that, \u201cI\u2019m kind of prejudiced, but episode five is very potent because that\u2019s the big action episode \u2026 Having a duel between the hero and a villain, or even showing a hero going into a battle against hundreds of people \u2014 a lot of people have done this before. But having seven people versus another seven people, all with their own distinct personalities and heraldry, and having all that going on at the same time is very challenging. And I think the way they settled to do it was superb. I wasn\u2019t necessarily convinced when it started, but it worked very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for a potential second season, Martin added, \u201cI hope you guys will love it, and that we will be able to do The Sworn Sword, which is the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe official description of the series: \u201cA century before the events of Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros \u2026 a young, na\u00efve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOther castmembers include Edward Ashley (Masters of the Air) as Ser Steffon Fossoway, Youssef Kerkour (House of Gucci) as Steely Pate, Daniel Monks (Kaos) as Ser Manfred Dondarrion, Shaun Thomas (How to Have Sex) as Raymun Fossoway, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Avengers: Infinity War) as Plummer, Danny Webb (The Regime) as Ser Arlan of Pennytree and Henry Ashton <\/strong>(A Good Girl\u2019s Guide to Murder) as Daeron Targaryen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trailer for the first new Game of Thrones series in three years has finally arrived. HBO revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[46910,18,117,1440,69552,9540,19,17,69553,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-112196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-game-of-thrones","12":"tag-george-r-r-martin","13":"tag-hbo","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-thr-original-video","17":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}