A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO’s next Game of Thrones spinoff, won’t be released until early next year. But at New York Comic Con, eager fans got their first look at the upcoming series Thursday in the miniseries’ first trailer.
The trailer shows Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey), nicknamed “Dunk,” as he tries to make a name for hismelf as a knight, joined by his squire “Egg” (Dexter Sol Ansell). There’s more than meets the eye to Egg, and viewers will have to wait until the six-episode season premieres on January 18, 2026, to fully learn how he fits into the larger world of Game of Thrones.
Unlike Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will forfeit the franchise’s intricate opening credits sequence as a signal that the tone of the series is a departure from previous shows. Showrunner Ira Parker told Entertainment Weekly that Dunk is “plain and he’s simple and he’s to-the-point,” adding that the creators of the show wanted to “channel the type of person he is into every aspect of this show, even the title sequence.”
In other words, a simple Dunk gets a simple title card.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms also notably takes place in between House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones in an era where dragons have gone extinct in Westeros, though the memory of their terrifying power remains. The Targaryens still rule the Seven Kingdoms, but their power is greatly diminished without the powerful beasts to back them up.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is based on George R.R. Martin’s novellas following the adventures of Dunk and Egg. The three stories — The Hedge Knight (1998), The Sworn Sword (2003), and The Mystery Knight (2010) — were collected together and published in 2015 as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The first season of the show will adapt the first novella, and according to Martin, it’s “as faithful [an] adaptation as a reasonable man could hope for (and you all know how incredibly reasonable I am on that particular subject).” Martin intends to write another Dunk and Egg novella, but not until after he finishes The Winds of Winter. (Whatever you say, George.)