At New York Comic Con 2025, Martin offered rare, glowing praise for HBO’s upcoming prequel series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, calling Season 1 “very similar” to his original novella The Hedge Knight. The show adapts the first of three Dunk & Egg tales, set roughly 90 years before Game of Thrones. “By the time I finished it, I was like: this is one of the best things I’d ever done,” Martin said. “And Ira and his amazing team… have done an amazing job of adapting them. What you see is gonna be very similar to what I wrote.”
Quick read:
- Martin says the show closely matches The Hedge Knight.
- He calls it one of his best works.
- Fans might see it as a return to form.
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Martin’s affection for The Hedge Knight runs deep. “Sometimes writing is a struggle… but it came to me very quickly, and I loved it,” he said at NYCC. The story’s simplicity—centered on Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire Egg—offers a refreshing contrast to the sprawling epics fans are used to. With Martin’s seal of approval, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms may finally restore trust in the franchise’s storytelling roots.
For fans burned by past missteps, this series might just be the redemption arc Westeros needed.
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