Why A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ producer is going even smaller for Season 2
Ira Parker talks about the Game of Thrones spin-off’s Season 2 and how stars Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell are like brothers off-screen
Ser Duncan is tall, but his story is small. And Ira Parker, producer of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, says it is going to stay that way.
HBO’s latest entry to the Game of Thrones universe has charmed and disarmed viewers with its humble story of big aspiring knight Dunk and his tiny bald squire Egg.
“If anything, I’d say Season 2 might feel even smaller,” says Parker from Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, where he is making the second season of the show. “It’s not at all busy and everything. There is almost some loneliness creeping into this.”
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is based on George R.R. Martin’s series of novellas about the journeys and adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his sidekick, whose nickname obscures his true identity.
After eight sprawling seasons of Game of Thrones and two seasons of House of the Dragon, some worried about Westeros fatigue when A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms arrived in January. Instead, it was enthusiastically embraced by fans and newcomers.
People seemed to want a world with no dragons or clashing kings, just an overgrown orphan without a last name trying to become somebody.