The ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Showrunner Has an Thought for an Unhinged ‘Sport of Thrones’ Cameo

As followers eagerly await the arrival of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, bringing one other nook of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros to HBO, the showrunner of the Game of Thrones spinoff is teasing the return of a well-known character. Kind of. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms takes place a few century earlier than Sport of Thrones, so it must be somebody we met on the latter present very, very late of their life. Somebody like, say… Walder Frey.

The Lord of the Crossing—very well-known to followers of each Martin’s books and the HBO sequence for internet hosting the notorious Purple Marriage ceremony—is of extraordinarily superior age once we meet his incarnation performed by David Bradley. However time hasn’t softened his devious, unforgiving nature, as Robb Stark and firm be taught the laborious approach. And, as Martin’s Dunk character learns in The Thriller Knight, the third novella within the sequence that impressed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Walder was a tablet at the same time as a tot.

Within the story, Dunk and Egg discover themselves at a marriage feast involving a daughter of Home Frey—a marriage hastened into being as a result of the bride’s youthful brother caught her playing around with a servant. The youthful brother is a toddler that Dunk finds so annoying he has a thought to chuck him down a effectively—think about the historical past he may’ve rewritten!

And A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner Ira Parker teased he wouldn’t be in opposition to giving wee Walder a cameo, based on Polygon.

“My favourite [cameo idea] is, and look, it’s not till the third ebook, however there’s a child Walder Frey,” Parker advised the outlet. “I’ve this, hopefully, actually humorous concept that individuals are most likely gonna kill me for. However this concept that one thing’s occurring, like there’s a runaway horse cart, and this child’s about to be killed, and Dunk intervenes and saves child Walder Frey.”

If A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms goes there, Parker continued, it wouldn’t contain an enormous wink on the viewers to ensure everybody caught the reference. “We don’t ever make a factor of it,” he stated. “It simply occurs, and we’re on with the story. That’s kind of the closest we get to [a direct crossover with characters] within the three novels which were written.”

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which adapts The Hedge Knight, the primary Dunk and Egg story, hits HBO January 18.

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