HBO Jon Snow Spin-Off Triggers ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Flashbacks

Games HBO Jon Snow Spin-Off Triggers ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Flashbacks Paul Tassi Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. New! Follow this author to improve your content experience.

Got it! Jun 17, 2022, 08:01am EDT | Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Game of Thrones HBO While HBO is reportedly considering a number of series set in the universe of Game of Thrones, including one that is definitely coming to fruition this year, House of the Dragon, most of them are prequels in some form or another based on parts of George RR Martin’s work. Until now. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that a new Game of Thrones show is in the works, a Jon Snow-based spin-off set after the events of the main series, which would see the return of actor Kit Harrington in the role.

Such a show would be forging ahead past the source material, the 7-book series that George RR Martin has still is not even close to finishing (Winds of Winter any day now, right?), and the idea of going back to that timeline and freewheeling new stories raises the specter of just how bad the series got once Martin’s material ran dry and it was up to showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss to forge a path forward. That culminated in the absolutely lambasted season 8 of the series, which featured expensive, epic battles, but plot turns that nearly everyone disliked, including a bizarre finale that killed off a now fully evil Daeneyrs and made Bran Stark king. As for Jon Snow, he returned to the north to go live among the Wildlings with the wall fallen and the White Walkers defeated, despite technically having a claim to the Iron Throne.

A throne that no longer exists because a dragon burned it to a puddle. MORE FOR YOU ‘Demon Slayer’ Season 2 Finally Has An Actual 2021 Release Date Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Not A Sure Thing, Says Director ‘Genshin Impact’ Still Refuses To Increase Anniversary Rewards, Despite Fan Outcry The idea of a Jon Snow series of course raises the question of what other characters might return alongside him. While the show killed off many major players during or near the finale, Jaime, Cersei, Littlefinger, Jorah, Theon, The Hound and Daenerys, there are plenty who could be seen again, Sansa, Arya, Tyrion, Sam, Tormund, Bran, Brienne, Davos, Gendry and plenty more.

LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: (L-R) Actors Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner and Kit . . .

[+] Harington, winners of Best Drama Series for “Game of Thrones”, pose in the press room during the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Getty Images One of the immediate questions I heard raised was about why Jon Snow would get a spin-off over say, Arya, who we last saw was sailing off to adventure far from Westeros, but who knows how that decision was made. I get the impression that actress Maise Williams, now 25, very wants to move away from the image of young Arya Stark, and perhaps she didn’t want to return.

Again, there are a bunch of other Game of Thrones spin-offs that are being or have been considered, even if many of them may not make it to air, and a few have already been axed. So far, we’ve heard about “Tales of Dunk and Egg,” “10,000 Ships,” “9 Voyages,” “Flea Bottom” and an animated series, but this one would represent the direct continuation of the main Game of Thrones storyline starring what was arguable one of the three main characters of the entire series (I’d consider Tyrion and Daenerys the other two). It is almost certain that former showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss would not be doing this Jon Snow show, as they’ve been busy with other projects, but still, it’s hard to erase just how much damage their season 8 and its finale did to Game of Thrones, and trying to pick up the pieces from that in a coherent way and start writing non-Martin material feels like an extremely tall order.

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