HBO Max released the first official trailer for “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”, another prequel series to hit show “Game of Thrones”.
This new series is set a hundred years before “Game of Thrones” but around 70 years after another prequel series, “House of the Dragon”. Targaryens still rule Westeros, but dragons no longer fly in the sky.
It is an adaptation of author George R.R. Martin’s “Tales of Dunk and Egg” novellas, which center around the early beginnings of Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire Egg, the future King Aegon V Targaryen.
Slipping into the main roles are Irish rugby player-turned-actor Peter Claffey as Dunk and “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” actor Dexter Sol Ansell as Egg.
The trailer appears to tease that the six-episode show will indeed start by adapting the first novella “The Hedge Knight”, where Dunk assumes the belongings of his deceased liege to fulfill his dream of becoming a knight.
Dunk gains a squire in Egg and joins a tourney in Ashford with the help of Crown Prince and Hand of the King Baelor Targaryan (Bertie Carvel), but Dunk gets into trouble with Baelor’s nephew Prince Aerion (Finn Bennett), which leads to multiple conflicts.
“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” will premiere on January 18, 2026, months before the third and penultimate season of “House of the Dragon.”