Jon Snow: Kit Harington teases the Game of Thrones spin-off series

As House of the Dragon‘s second season hasn’t officially sealed its release date yet, the estimated premiere is slated for 2024. The exciting news that has been bestowed upon Game of Thrones die-hards this year is the announcement of a sequel series about the beloved character of Jon Snow. Actor Kit Harington, who portrays Snow, made an appearance recently made an appearance at a GOT convention in LA where he was inevitably probed for info.

Deadline reports on Harington’s limited speculation on the spin-off, tentatively titled Snow. Harington addressed the character’s conclusion to his arc in Game of Thrones and where that could possibly lead him in Snow. “I think if you asked him, he would’ve felt he got off lightly. At the end of the show, when we find him in that cell, he’s preparing to be beheaded, and he wants to be. He’s done. The fact he goes to the Wall is the greatest gift and also the greatest curse. He’s gotta go back up to the place with all this history and live out his life thinking about how he killed Dany, and live out his life thinking about Ygritte dying in his arms, and live out his life thinking about how he hung Olly, and live out his life thinking about all of this trauma, and that, that’s interesting.”

The Jon Snow actor then adds, “So I think where we leave him at the end of the show, there’s always this feeling of like… I think we wanted some kind of little smile that things are OK. He’s not OK.”

The author of the novels, George R.R. Martin, revealed earlier this year that Harington had come up with the idea for the show, “Yes, it was Kit Harrington (sic) who brought the idea to us. I cannot tell you the names of the writers/ showrunners since that has not been cleared for release yet… but Kit brought them in too, his own team, and they are terrific.”

Martin, though knee-deep in the continuing stories of the television adaptation of his literary creation, he hasn’t officially finished the ending to Game of Thrones in the book series. HBO had a deal to conceive an ending of their own should there not be source material. However, Martin updated on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that the final novel is 75% written.