Kit Harington Confirms That The Jon Snow Series That Would Have Been A Game Of Thrones Sequel Has Been Cancelled

Game of Thrones projects come and go. One day you have a prequel starring Naomi Watts (which, by the way, recently leaked footage from the pilot), and the next it has been canceled and swept under the rug. One morning you hear about a spin-off starring Aegon the Conqueror, and the next you find out it’s in exchange for delaying the sequel to the Jon Snow-centric series as well. More projects are dying here than characters.

The thing is, Kit Harington just confirmed in an interview for the folks at Screen Rant that the “Game of Thrones” sequel about Jon Snow has been canceled: “I hadn’t really ever spoken about it, because it was in development. I didn’t want it leaked out that it was being developed, and I didn’t want the thing to happen where people kind of start theorizing, getting either excited about it or hating the idea of it, when it may never happen. Because in development, you look at every angle, and you see whether it’s worth it. And currently, it’s not. Currently, it’s off the table, because we all couldn’t find the right story to tell that we were all excited about enough.”

Confirmed in development a few years ago by HBO Max and approved by George RR Martin, the author of the books had confessed that the codename of the series was “Snow” and that the idea for it came from Harington himself. The show was supposed to follow the Bastard’s footsteps in his banishment to the other side of the Wall, but no one could have known what Jon would find along the way.

We will have to lick our wounds with the second season of ‘House of the Dragon’ and make do with the rest of the spin-offs in progress, from ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ to ‘10,000 Ships’. I wish we had ‘Winds of Winter’ on the way as well, but that book seems to be dragging on even longer because, according to Martin, “It’s a big mother of a book.”