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You recognize every thing, Jon Snow.
Game of Thrones alum Package Harington is lastly opening up concerning the fan petition signed by two million individuals to remake the ultimate season of HBO's fantasy sequence "with competent writers." And it's an understatement to say that the actor was not happy to listen to about it.
"That genuinely angered me," Harington mentioned in a new interview with the New York Times. "Like, how dare you? Sorry, that's simply how I really feel."
The Sport of Thrones star added that he knew how onerous the present's writers, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, had labored to make the ultimate season, particularly for the reason that present had outpaced creator George R.R. Martin's A Music of Ice and Hearth novels (the sequence nonetheless stays unfinished). That's why he was so upset when he discovered that two million individuals had signed the unofficial Change.org petition asking for a redo of the ultimate season.
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"I feel it was a degree of idiocy that may solely come about by way of social media," Harington mentioned.
The ultimate season of Sport of Thrones aired whereas Harington was in rehab for alcohol habit and stress, and when he returned, he was shocked by the unfavourable backlash from viewers.
"I went in and everybody beloved Thrones; I got here out and everybody hated it," Harington beforehand mentioned in April 2024. "I feel if there was any fault with the tip of Thrones, is that we had been all so f—ing drained, we couldn't have gone on longer. And so I perceive some individuals thought it was rushed and I would agree with them. However I'm unsure there was any different. I take a look at footage of me in that remaining season and I look exhausted. I look spent. I didn't have one other season in me."
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Harington beforehand informed Leisure Weekly that his proposed GOT sequel series about his character Jon Snow had been placed on the shelf.
"It's not taking place — and never taking place anytime quickly anyway," the actor mentioned earlier that month. "We bounced some concepts round and nothing actually lit us up. It simply didn't. I feel we don't wish to do one thing that's not value it. So in the interim, we're simply shelving it."
Harington added that he beforehand had excessive hopes for the sequel spinoff.
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"I’d by no means have mentioned sure to the concept of creating one thing with Jon Snow if I didn't suppose there was one thing attention-grabbing there, and there might have been," he mentioned. "However HBO cares concerning the character lots and I care concerning the character lots, and we don't wish to put out one thing that’s going to sully the character. That's the worst factor that we might presumably do. So except we discover one thing sooner or later that actually lands, there's no level in dashing it. There's no level in maintaining creating for improvement's sake and doing one thing that I don't wish to do."
And but, what’s lifeless could by no means die. The Sport of Thrones franchise nonetheless continues, even with out Jon Snow. Prequel sequence House of the Dragon will return for season 3, and new sequence A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms debuts Jan. 18 on HBO.
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