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Game of Thrones Showrunners on Kit Harington/Jon Snow Series Idea

Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff & Dan Weiss shared their thoughts on Kit Harington's proposed Jon Snow spinoff sequel series.

Maybe it's a good thing that Kit Harington's possible return as Jon Snow for a pseudo-sequel/spinoff series entitled "Snow" isn't close to a green light yet (according to HBO's head of drama, Francesca Orsi). Because maybe by the time it is ready to roll, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff & Dan Weiss will be ready to return to George R.R. Martin's universe. During a profile interview with The Hollywood Reporter in support of their upcoming Netflix series 3 Body Problem, the duo was asked if they would consider returning to the franchise years from now if the project was still in its development stage. If you're an eternal optimist who believes that a door being left open, even a sliver, is a sign of hope, you might like what they had to say.

"I don't know …" Benioff shared – offering a brief but realistically honest answer to the question, considering it requires having a sense of where things could be at some 5 to 10 years down the road. "It would be so great; nothing would make us happier than to work with our people from that show," Weiss added. "But there are a lot of other ways to make that happen that are fresh and exciting for everyone involved. Also, unless [Kit Harington] has been doing a lot of working out, that's a really heavy cloak for a guy in his 40s to carry around — it's like 60 pounds." But Benioff & Weiss did see some merit in how a series like that could work from the perspective of focusing on an old Jon Snow. "Like in 'The Color of Money' — that was a good sequel," Benioff said. "Maybe when we're 80 and Kit's approaching retirement, he can throw that cloak on again with real gray in his beard," Weiss followed – with Benioff adding, "One last ride …"

Game of Thrones: A Look Back at "Snow" Timeline

Between Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav's mandate that the WBD do more with its IPs and the success of HBO's "Game of Thrones" prequel series House of the Dragon, it's no surprise that more & more attention is being paid to Harington's reported possible return. So much so that even NBC's The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon dared to go there when Harington stopped by the late-night talk show. Starting at around 3:10, Harington discusses what it was like attending a GOT convention in Los Angeles in December 2022 (more on that in a minute). From there, Fallon springboards into the spinoff rumblings, with Harington playing a bit coy about what he could say while joking about how he may have to return so people keep remembering him. From there, Fallon & Harington came up with a fool-proof plan that would guarantee the spinoff gets made. And while we won't spoil it, let's just say that it would involve the fans literally doing nothing. Here's a look at Harington's late-night visit with Fallon:

George RR Martin & Kit Harington on "GOT" Spinoff Series "Snow"

In a blog post from Summer 2022, GRRM confirmed that the working title for the sequel series was "Snow," joining three other live-action shows in development at HBO and that the project "has been in development almost as long as the other three," but the news only leaked recently. GRRM also confirmed that "it was Kit Harington who brought the idea to us" and that Harington also brought in "his own team" of writers and showrunners. And though their names haven't been cleared for release yet, GRRM says "they are terrific." The celebrated author also confirmed his involvement in the series. "Kit's team have visited me here in Santa Fe and worked with me and my own team of brilliant, talented writers/ consultants to hammer out the show," GRRM continued. While he made it clear that none of the projects had received an official green light yet, GRRM offered a pretty impressive-sounding update at the time on how development was going. "All four of these successor shows are still in the script stage. Outlines and treatments have been written and approved, scripts have been written, notes have been given, second and third drafts have been written," the author wrote.

"I think if you asked him, he would've felt he got off lightly. At the end of the show, when we find him in that cell, he's preparing to be beheaded, and he wants to be. He's done. The fact he goes to the Wall is the greatest gift and also the greatest curse," Harington shared during his appearance at a Los Angeles GOT convention in December 2022, when asked about where Snow's head was at heading into the series-ender after having killed Daenerys (Clarke).

"He's gotta go back up to the place with all this history and live out his life thinking about how he killed Dany, and live out his life thinking about Ygritte dying in his arms, and live out his life thinking about how he hung Olly, and live out his life thinking about all of this trauma, and that, that's interesting," Harington continued, clearly alluding to the tortured hero's mindset heading into the end credits (and into his own series). "So I think where we leave him at the end of the show, there's always this feeling of like… I think we wanted some kind of little smile that things are OK. He's not OK."

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