Kit Harington Came Up With the Idea for His Jon Snow ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff
thewrap.comon his website’s Not-a-Blog section, the project is codenamed “Snow” and has been development as long as the other “Game of Thrones”-adjacent series that HBO is developing, which are “Ten Thousand Ships” (from Amanda Segel), “Sea Snake” aka “Nine Voyages” (from “Rome” creator Bruno Heller) and a show centered around characters Dunk and Egg, from “The Pursuit of Happyness” writer Steve Conrad. (There are also some animated projects in development.) “For whatever reason it was never announced and it never leaked… until now,” Martin wrote.Martin also confirms what Emilia Clarke said in an interview with the BBC – that the new show was created by Harington himself. “It’s been created by Kit as far as I can understand, so he’s in it from the ground up,” Clarke told them. “Yes, it was Kit Harington who brought the idea to us,” Martin wrote on his blog. “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.”And yes, Martin is involved in this new show, just as he is involved with all the others.
Harington’s team visited Martin at his home in Santa Fe and they worked with Martin and Martin’s team of writers and consultants “to hammer out the show.” According to Martin, scripts have been written and re-written but “Snow” (and any of the other “Game of Thrones” spin-offs, beyond “House of the Dragon” which premieres in August) have yet to be given a greenlight.
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