For fans of the Game of Thrones franchise, Friday came with great news. Just over two months before the start of filming for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, one of the fans’ most beloved tales, we have confirmation of the two main actors: Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell, respectively, Ser Duncan and Aegon V, better known as Egg.

The series will mess up the timeline a little because each content is a period: Game of Thrones was the “most recent”, House of the Dragon takes place almost 200 years before, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, is well before Robert’s Rebellion, but not connects the stories as it takes place 100 years before GOT. Still, we will certainly meet the young Maester Aemon Targaryen, Egg’s older brother and crucial to the Targaryens’ succession order; this part will be cool!

The series description says, “Set in a time when the Targaryen bloodline still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet faded from living memory, great destinies, powerful enemies, and perilous exploits await these unlikely and incomparable friends.” Yes, Egg will be obsessed with the idea of rescuing the Dragons, who will be extinguished at the end of HOTD and in a tragic way, as the song Jenny of Oldstones reminds us.

Maintaining the tradition of launching “new faces” – when possible – the actors who will lead the cast are not newcomers, but, until today, they have not been highlighted. Peter Claffey is a former rugby player, with roles in Apple TV+’s Bad Sisters and Wreck, and is already in the cast of the film Small Things Like These, alongside Cillian Murphy, as well as appearing in the third season of Vikings: Valhalla, from Netflix.

Little Dexter Sol Ansell was in cinemas as young Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Birds and Snakes, as well as having participated in series such as Emmerdale and The Midwich Cuckoos.

One of the highlights that differentiates A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight is that the script will be written by George R.R. Martin himself, sharing the credits with Ira Parker, and the participation of House of the Dragon showrunner, Ryan Condal.

And the best? Finishing recording in 2024 means that the premiere is guaranteed for 2025, perhaps in June? We will follow everything, obviously.

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