Welcome back everyone is Charlie HBO just revealed that it's
casting the new Game of Thrones Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
prequel series. George R.R. Martin's also revealed
a bunch of details about it. So we'll break it all down. It's also going into production way faster
than we thought that it would, so we actually might see episodes
pretty soon. If you're brand new to the channel, be
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I'll do videos for all the episodes, just like I do for H
ouse of the Dragon,
like I did for Game of Thrones. Any of the other prequel series
or sequel series that they wind up releasing the next couple of years?
there's a lot of them. I'll talk about some of the other ones
at the end of the video. How's the Dragon's season? Two episodes should release during next summer. They're still on track for that,
even though there have been a couple of strikes.
Don't worry about that. I've already done a couple of videos about all the footage,
the teasers they'
ve released, so I'll put links to that down
in the description below. And at the end of this but starting
with the big stuff, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is based on the tales of dunk
and egg stories that George R.R. Martin wrote. There are three novellas, basically,
and they were just collected in a larger book called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,
which is where the series gets its name from, they might tweak the name
just a little bit to keep from getting super long because the full title
n
ow has a subtitle called The Hedge Knight. That might just be for season one
because the three Duncan Egg novellas are called A Hedge Knight, which is a
reference to Ser Duncan the Tall. Book two is called The Sworn Sword,
which is also a reference to Ser Duncan, the swearing his sword to Aegon
the fifth in the last novella book three is called The Mystery Knight,
which as you could have guessed it, big surprise is also a reference
to Ser Duncan the Tall. within the world of a song of Ice
and Fi
re in Westeros. A mystery Knight is someone who competes
in a tournament like a joust without revealing their identity
or using a pseudonym or a fake name during the tales of Duncan Egg dunk fights
in a tournament celebrating the wedding of Ser Ambrose Butterworth
using a pseudonym called The Gallows Knight
instead of his real name. probably the most famous example of
another mystery Knight in Game of Thrones history was Lyanna Stark, who fought
in the Great Tourney of Herron Hall during the tou
rnament, a younger Howland
Reed, seen here later in the timeline with a young Ned Stark, was bullied by three squires
of other knights at the tournament. Lyanna Stark came to his aid, beat off the attackers with the sword
like while she was dressed as Lyanna Certainly she had her dress on, then later entered the tournament
disguised as the Knight of the Laughing Tree with armor that had a tree on it
that appeared to be laughing. It drove the Mad King even more mad
because he thought the tree was
actually laughing at him. because you remember by this point
he's grown incredibly insane in supposedly the great tourney of Herron
Hall was a ruse that Rhaegar Targaryen threw in order
to try and call a great tournament and get the rest of the round to support him deposing his father
and him taking the iron throne. there are a lot of theories
about that during the original Game of Thrones novels, but they never definitively answered
if that's what regards original plan was. Maybe we'll hear ab
out that in some future
Robert's Rebellion series at some point. but. During that great tournament
when Lyanna Stark was pretending to be the Knight of the laughing tree, he defeated the three knights
that those squires were serving in the three defeated knights
agreed to severely chastise their squires as a way for Lyanna to help
get some justice for Howland Reed Because he'd been afraid
to actually challenge the squires in open combat like you
normally would in a situation like that, but the n
ews you may have seen
your feeds recently is that HBO is now casting the roles of Sir Duncan,
the Tall and Prince Aegon the fifth for a planned
filming date during 2024. At least that's what
the casting announcement looks like. They're going to be filming next year,
which is way faster than I think we expected I'm still not expecting them
to release episodes to like 2026. But if they aren't able to get House
of the Dragon season three out by 2025, we might actually get lucky. And they just relea
sed Knight of the Seven
Kingdoms between seasons of House of the Dragon
A while ago, George R.R. Martin made it sound like season
one of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms would only have about six episodes.
So be on the shorter side. But supposedly
the episode count could wind up changing. HBO wasn't really happy when the original series
started doing those shorter seasons, and they're not really happy. The House of the Dragon Season
two had to reduce their episode count to but house the dragon's
act
ually a good template for what Knight of the Seven
Kingdoms is going to be like. So when House the Dragons started
a lot of fans were worried that there wouldn't be enough material
for them to adapt to normal series because the actual dance of the Dragons Targaryen Civil War that it's covering
only lasted for a couple of years. Like it was actually pretty quick. George R.R. Martin only wrote a couple of short
stories covering that in the Fire and Blood book that he wrote is more of an appendices
like a Silmarillion type of book written by a master who narrates
when certain things happen in history. It's not written like an actual novel, like the main song of Ice and Fire novels
that they adapted for the main series. like when they did the original series,
they had really big novels to adapt for most of the seasons. Obviously, when the show started to go off
the rails is when they lost all the material to adapt verse,
everyone's worries when they get to the House of the Dragon.
And some
of these are the prequels, but they don't have
a ton of material to adapt. but if George R.R. Martin is writing,
he wrote on House of the Dragon. He's writing on Knight of the Seven
Kingdoms, helping them expand the story. And if it weren't fine
for House of the Dragon, it'll probably work fine for any of the other periods in history
they want to cover. Well, funny you should ask. Let me get my map. so as long as he's the one that's
actually expanding the material for those different time
perio
ds, I'm not worried about the story. Knight of the Seven Kingdoms would pick up about 80 years
after the first black bi rebellion. So the other cool thing about the series,
they can feature the Blood Raven, Brendan Rivers, a.k.a. the Three-Eyed Raven. Before he became the Three-Eyed Raven he was very active
during this period in history. He was a Targaryen bastard of Aegon,
the fourth. He was the infamous king who started so many bastards
that it put Robert at the end of shame. He hated his legi
timate oldest son
who was heir to the iron throne, legitimized a bunch of the bastards creating house black fire, which directly
leads to the Black Fire rebellion. It causes a whole bunch of problems. the survivors of that wound up going off
to Essos to create the Golden Company. Brendan Rivers fought on the side
of his half brother, King Darren. The second obviously was half brothers
with all the black fighters too. so this is another Targaryen Civil war
like the House of the Dragon Dance of th
e Dragons. It was just a bunch of bastards
versus a bunch of true born people. Brendan Rivers supported the true born
side, the actual crown basically the reason why he was called the Blood
Raven though, was because of a birthmark covering most of his face
in after his half brother King Darren. The second died from an illness. After the Blackfire rebellion, He became the hand of the king
and the master of whispers to Darren's son Brynden's nephew, Aerys,
the first after he took the Iron throne.
Then Aerys dies without an heir. So the iron throne passes to his brother
Maekar the first. And it's around that period
the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series would be taking place. The story begins when Heir is the first
is still sitting on the Iron throne. But after the Blackfire rebellion
and before Aegon, the fifth father maker, the first succeeds
his brother Aerys is the next king. would they might do on the show though, is
because most of this takes place when Aegon the fifth is squire to
Sir
Duncan the tall like when he's much younger and is having adventures
going around the different seven kingdoms but because Aegon the fifth eventually
does become the next king in Ser Duncan. The taller becomes the Lord Commander
of his kingsguard eventually they'll probably have Some flash forward to where he actually becomes
the next king in the name Sir Duncan. The title to the Kingsguard this is, where
the title of the Collected Books gets its name. Because when you become a Kingsguard,
you become a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. a like the whole trajectory of the series, it's like the rise of Sir Duncan,
the title in The Rise of Aegon the fifth. but because so much of the series
takes place when they're much younger. I think that's
what most of the episodes will be in in those be like a quick flash forward
at the end of the series to him actually becoming king in Sir
Duncan the Tall becoming a Kingsguard. they're probably not going to do
the tragedy of summerhall because that h
appened
way later in Aegon that this life and because Aegon
the fifth was the younger brother of Mr. Aemon on the show Game of Thrones. We might actually see
a much younger version of Mr. Aemon the whole idea is that Aegon
the fifth became the next king of Westeros as part of a great council
where they were selecting the next king. but when that was happening, Mr. Aemon was actually ahead of him
in the line of succession, so part of the idea is that Mr. Aymond
didn't want to cause another Targar
yen Civil War battle over succession
so soon after the Blackfire rebellion, and he didn't want to leave the master, so he chose to take the black instead,
basically leading the great council to select Aegon. The fifth is like the next
likely successor. There was a brief moment during the
original Game of Thrones series where Mr. Aymond is talking to Jon
Snow about his true heritage. Like I am a Targaryen, I had to sit through all these different
conflicts, the rise of the Mad King, everything th
at happened
with the neighbors, you know, I wasn't able to help them
even though I wanted to like mainstream and actually wanted to leave
and help the nearest when everything happened with the Mad King
and Robert's rebellion. so it was much earlier in the timeline. He still like a lot of characters
who were alive during the main series Game of Thrones. Also, Melisandre is like one of the oldest characters
in the main series and game of Thrones. She could show up at any point
during this part of
the timeline. the other interesting thing too,
is about the Bloodraven black stories. So when Mr. Amos took the black and went to the wall,
the blood raven also took the black and went to the wall, He even rose to the rank of Lord Commander of the night's watch
before he became the Three-Eyed Raven. But the reason why the blood raven took
the black was because of a separate event
involving the death of one of the black fighters
during the great tournament. It was like one of Aegon,
the first fir
st acts to actually have him arrested
and gave him the choice to take the black. So let's take a whole different video
about the history of the blood raven as is you really interesting. So if we learn more about the character
on the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series,
I'll do a much bigger video about him. but when the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
series picks up, he's basically hand of the king. So it makes sense that we would
actually see him during the series. Let me know in the comments. So
who do you want to play? Duncan Egg? I would totally be fine if they were unknown actors
that we don't know anything about. I don't mind their not being a super famous actors
on any of the Game of Thrones series, even though there are a couple
on House of the Dragon, they probably won't announce more the actual characters, the casting
until next year, but they can probably do
like a solid three or four seasons out of this, just like
they're doing for House of the Dragon. Like I said, expanding
the story
with George R.R. Martin being the one
to actually expand the story. what they'll probably do, though,
is that once House of the Dragon Season four airs this Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series would take over,
become like the main series. And then they do like the next sequel
series, spin off and so on and so forth. there's still a bunch of others
that they're working on, like the Jon Snow sequel series, The Sea Snake Series,
about his nine voyages, like the nine famous voyages
and con
quests around the world. A Princess Nymeria the 10,000 Ship series
about the history of Dorne. there's an animated series
that they're working on. There's the Aegon's Conquest series,
which might just be like a future House of the Dragon series. The idea is that they'll do more
Targaryen periods in history and just still call it House the Dragon,
but cover different periods in history. sort of be like House of the Dragon
Subtitle Conquest for Aegon's Conquest. the only series that I've heard abo
ut them
actually canceling is the flea bottom series. I'm totally fine
and then not doing that. But there's a bunch of others
that we'll probably hear about in like the next several years. Like they'll still do Game of Thrones
sequel series, spinoff series
till the Heat Death of the Universe. So I'm going to be like 90 years old
someday doing breakdowns for a new Game of Thrones
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