HBO promises you'll be getting new Game Of Thrones stuff in 2024 and 2025

Big news today for the none of you out there who were eagerly awaiting yet another Game Of Thrones prequel spin-off: HBO/Max has confirmed that it’s set a late 2025 release date for its latest such project—a span of time that will hopefully be spent figuring out where to chop words off of the title *deep breath* Game Of Thrones: A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight.

As the name almost entirely fails to imply, GOT:AKOTSK:THK is set to be an adaptation of Martin’s well-loved “Dunk And Egg” short stories set in Westeros, about 90 years before the main books in the A Song Of Ice And Fire series. The stories follow the adventures of the guy who will eventually be Sir Duncan The Tall, the titular Hedge Knight, a low-born fighter who strikes up a friendship with a young squire, “Egg” (whose actual identity we’re still probably not allowed to talk about, even though Martin revealed it all the way back in 1998). The upshot of the whole thing is that the stories give at least some perspective on what it’s like to not be one of the elites of the Seven Kingdoms, as Dunk struggles to make ends meet while holding on to his honor in the era of the reign of the not-yet-completely-mad Targaryens.

As revealed by David “Let’s keep just playing the hits, huh?” Zaslav, the 2025 release date for GOT:AKOTSK:THK means we’ll be getting a new season of Westeros both this year and the next, with existing prequel House Of The Dragon releasing new episodes later in 2024. Between this and that Harry Potter show Zaslav was also touting this week, the whole thing smacks of the old 30 Rock “Make it 2013 again through science or magic” gag—but we will admit that the “Dunk And Egg” stories are cool enough that we do kind of want to see them on screen. (Provided HBO can figure out a name short enough to fit on a single title card, at least.)

[via THR]