Last week it was introduced that Max was formally transferring ahead with the Game of Thrones spinoff sequence Tales of Dunk and Egg, solely that’s not the title of the present. The title that they got here up with is A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight. Some followers have questioned why the cable community and artistic crew determined to vary the title, and it merely got here all the way down to advertising and marketing and making the present accessible to extra individuals who aren’t conversant in Martin’s Dunk and Egg story.
George R.R. Martin lately shared an evidence of the title change on his weblog saying:
The working title might be A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS: THE HEDGE KNIGHT. Whether that would be the last title, I can’t say for positive… past saying that no, it received’t be referred to as TALES OF DUNK & EGG or THE ADVENTURES OF DUNK & EGG or DUNK & EGG or something alongside these traces. I like Dunk and I like Egg, and I do know that followers confer with my novellas as “the Dunk & Egg stories,” positive, however there are tens of millions of individuals on the market who have no idea the tales and the title must intrigue them too. If you don’t know the characters, DUNK & EGG appears like a sitcom. LAVERNE & SHIRLEY. ABBOTT & COSTELLO. BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD. So, no. We need “knight” within the title. Knighthood and chivalry are central to the themes of those tales.
I’d have been advantageous with Dunk & Egg, however I get the place everyone seems to be coming from on the advertising and marketing facet of the sequence. They need folks to observe it, and whereas Dunk & Egg are enjoyable and playful names, they need audiences to know that that is a present about a Knight.
The tales comply with the adventures of the hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall, who would turn into a legendary member of the Kingsguard, and his squire Egg, who would turn into King Aegon V Targaryen of Westeros. The tales are set 90 years previous to the occasions of A Song of Ice and Fire.
The official synopsis reads: “A century before the events of Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros … a young, naïve but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg. Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, great destinies, powerful foes and dangerous exploits all await these improbable and incomparable friends.”
This is the second prequel sequence to be picked up by Max, after final 12 months’s House of the Dragon. It might be written and govt produced by Martin and House of the Dragon producer Ira Parker and govt produced by Ryan Condal and Vince Gerardis.
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