News A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Will Be Smaller, More Intimate Than Game of Thrones Showrunner Ira Parker reveals how the upcoming series will be different from Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 6, 2025 Credit: Steffan Hill/HBO Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Steffan Hill/HBO We’re finally getting some glimpses of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the series set in the Game of Thrones universe that’s based on George R.R. Martin’s novella, The Hedge Knight. One of those glimpses reveals that the show will start differently than Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon: There will be no big opening title sequence with a musical number, just a simple title card. That move by showrunner Ira Parker was intentional. Unlike the shows before it, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will be a smaller story told from the point of view of common folk in Westeros, a hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones and fifty years after the last dragon died. And that dragon, Parker told Entertainment Weekly, was a sad little thing: “It couldn’t even fly. If you can’t fly, what are you really? They’re just a fancy lizard.” Harsh! That dragon would still be a dragon to me! Parker added, however, that while the world is closer to 14th-century Britain than not, it’s also a place where magic once existed. “This is the ground and the grass that has seen dragons and dragon fire before,” he said. “So everything is just like how the world is, but a little stranger, a little different.” The show centers on Ser Duncan the Tall, aka Dunk, who is played by actor Peter Claffey. Dunk’s just minding his own business, talking to his horses, when a bald boy who goes by Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) convinces Dunk to let him squire. They head to a tourney, the Targaryens currently grasping at power are there, and events ensue. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms premieres on HBO in early 2026. [end-mark] The post <i>A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms</i> Will Be Smaller, More Intimate Than <i>Game of Thrones</i> appeared first on Reactor.