Jon Snow's Sequel Can Finally Use 1 Key Book Character GOT Wrongly Cut
Jon Snow's Sequel Can Finally Use 1 Key Book Character GOT Wrongly Cut
The Jon Snow sequel show would be a great chance to use a character from the A Song of Ice and Fire books that Game of Thrones unfortunately cut.
Kit Harington as Jon Snow and Ciaran Hinds as Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones
Although Game of Thrones overtook George R.R. Martin's books long before it ended, the Jon Snow sequel show could still use one A Song of Ice and Fire character the HBO series didn't use. A Jon Snow sequel is reportedly in development at HBO, which would see Kit Harington reprise the role. It's a surprising move, given Game of Thrones' ending wrapped-up Jon Snow's story rather neatly, and the focus on spinoffs has been prequels set long before the timeline of Jon, Daenerys Targaryen, et al. Despite that, however, there are some intriguing directions it could go in.
Game of Thrones mostly passed Martin's books in season 6 (though even before that it was making increased changes and cuts), which inevitably included alterations to Jon Snow's story. The biggest element - Jon Snow's death at the hands of mutinous Night's Watch brothers - was kept intact (albeit again with some diversions), but otherwise there were broader changes to that plot. That included cutting many aspects of the Wildlings themselves and their part in the story, with one twist seeing Mance Rayder survive, his body switched with that of Rattleshirt who dies in his place, and infiltrating Winterfell, missing completely.