HBO Max’s Best ‘Game of Thrones’ Spin-Off Takes a Colossal Step Forward After Season 2 Filming Delay



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HBO’s latest offering from Westeros, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, came in quietly and won the hearts of viewers worldwide. The six-part series, showrun by Ira Parker, was made on a smaller scale than its predecessors, Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, but had a much greater impact. It left behind the dragons and the white walkers and took us closer to the small folk with the help of Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and young Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell).

The series follows Ser Duncan and his squire Egg as they navigate the events of the Ashford tourney and gives us a glimpse into the lives of regular people who inhabit the Sven Kingdoms. It also gives us a glimpse into the interpersonal relationships of the ruling Targaryen family as we see them as brothers, fathers, and sons rather than dragon riders or scheming politicians. The series came in as a breath of fresh air and earned its flowers.

A second season already began filming in Belfast, Ireland, back in December 2025, before the series had even debuted, showing the maker’s confidence in their product. However, Season 2 recently hit a setback when filming shut down at Las Niñas dam in Gran Canaria due to historic floods. But that’s about to change as Atlántico Hoy reports that season 2 will resume filming but at a different location in Spain. It seems many locations were chosen to shoot the next season, and the production is simply moving on to film other parts. While the cast and crew will film scenes at La Fortaleza in Gran Canaria, scouting will also begin to find a replacement for the Las Niñas Dam.

Collider Exclusive · Middle-earth Quiz
Which Lord of the Rings
Race Do You Belong To?

Hobbit · Elf · Dwarf · Man · Orc

Middle-earth is home to many peoples — the courageous, the ancient, the stubborn, the ambitious, and the wretched. Ten questions will determine which race truly claims your soul. The answer may surprise you. Or it may confirm what you already suspected.

🌿Hobbit

🌟Elf

⚒️Dwarf

⚔️Man

💀Orc

01

What does your ideal day look like?
How we rest reveals as much as how we fight.






02

How do you feel about the passing of time?
Our relationship with mortality shapes everything we value.






03

Danger is approaching. Your first instinct is to:
Fight, flight, or something in between — it’s more revealing than you’d think.






04

You stumble upon a great treasure. What do you feel?
What we desire — and what we do about it — is the true test.






05

How important is community and belonging to you?
No race of Middle-earth is truly alone — but some prefer it that way.






06

How ambitious are you, honestly?
Ambition is neither virtue nor vice — it depends entirely on what you want.






07

Where do you feel most at home in the natural world?
Middle-earth is vast — and every race has its place within it.






08

What kind of strength do you most respect?
Every race defines strength differently — and they’re all at least a little right.






09

What do you want to leave behind when you’re gone?
Legacy is the story we tell ourselves about why any of this matters.






10

Be honest — what do you actually want most out of life?
The truest question always comes last.






Middle-earth Has Spoken
You Belong To…

The race that claimed the most of your answers is your true kin. If two tied, both are shown — you walk between worlds.

◆ A TIE — YOU WALK BETWEEN TWO RACES ◆

🌿

Your Race

The Hobbits

You are, at your core, a creature of comfort, community, and quiet joy — and there is nothing small about that. Hobbits are proof that heroism does not require ambition, that the bravest heart can beat inside the most unassuming chest. You value good food, warm hearths, close friends, and a world that stays largely untroubled by dark lords and quests. When adventure does find you — and it will — you rise to it not because you sought it, but because the people you love needed you to. That is not ordinary. That is the rarest kind of courage in all of Middle-earth.

🌟

Your Race

The Elves

Ancient, graceful, and carrying a weight of memory most mortals cannot fathom, you are one of the Elves. You see the world in its fullness — its beauty, its impermanence, the unbearable ache of watching everything you love eventually fade. You pursue perfection not from pride, but because excellence is how you honour the time you have been given. Others may see you as remote or melancholy. They are not wrong, exactly. But they mistake depth for distance. You feel everything — which is precisely why you have learned to carry it so quietly.

⚒️

Your Race

The Dwarves

Stubborn, proud, fiercely loyal, and possessed of a work ethic that would exhaust most other races before breakfast — you are Dwarf-kind through and through. You do not ask for approval and you do not offer it cheaply. Your loyalty, once given, is given for life. Your grudges last longer. You love deeply and defend ferociously, and the things you build — with your hands, with your sweat, with generations of accumulated craft — are made to last. Not for glory. Because anything worth doing is worth doing properly, and you have never once done anything by half measures.

⚔️

Your Race

The Race of Men

Mortal, ambitious, flawed, and magnificent — you belong to the most complicated race in Middle-earth, and that complexity is your greatest strength. Men are capable of cowardice and extraordinary bravery, of cruelty and breathtaking sacrifice, sometimes within the same breath. You feel the urgency of your finite years, and it drives you. You want to matter. You want to leave something behind. You fall, and you rise, and the rising is what defines you. Tolkien called mortality the Gift of Men — not a curse, but a fire that burns bright precisely because it does not burn forever. That fire is you.

💀

Your Race

The Orcs

Brutal, survivalist, and contemptuous of anything that can’t defend itself — you answered with the instincts of an Orc, and there is a certain savage honesty in that. You do not dress up your desires in polite language or pretend you want things you don’t. You want power, survival, and to never be at the bottom of any hierarchy ever again. Orcs are not evil by nature — they were made from something that was once good, and broken into this shape by forces they did not choose. What remains is fierce, territorial, and deeply aware that the world is not kind. You’ve made your peace with that. The question is what you do with it.

What to Expect From A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2?

More of Dunk and Egg’s adventures for sure. The next season will cover the events of George RR Martin’s novella The Sworn Sword. It has already gathered new cast members, and with filming resuming soon, the series shouldn’t be delayed. New faces joining season 2 include Lucy Boynton as Lady Rohanne, Peter Mullan as Ser Eustace Osgrey, and British actor Babou Ceesay as Ser Bennis. Given the series’ small scale, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms aims to release a season each year, giving fans more of what they want.

Check out A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on HBO Max and stay tuned to Collider for more such updates.


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Release Date

January 18, 2026

Network

HBO

Showrunner

Ira Parker

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    Peter Claffey

    Ser Duncan ‘Dunk’ the Tall

  • Headshot Of Dexter Sol Ansell


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