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As fans eagerly await the arrival of A knight of the Seven Kingdomsbrings another corner of George RR Martin’s Westeros to HBO, the showrunner of the game of Thrones Spinoff teases the return of a familiar character. Somehow. A knight of the Seven Kingdoms takes place about a century earlier game of Thronesso it would have to be someone we only met very, very late in his life on the latter show. Someone like, let’s say… Walder Frey.
The Lord of the Cross – well known to fans of Martin’s books and the HBO series for hosting the infamous Red Wedding – is already at an extremely advanced age when we meet his incarnation, played by David Bradley. But time has not softened his treacherous, unforgiving nature, as Robb Stark and company learn the hard way. And as Martin’s Dunk character learns The mysterious knightthe third novella in the series that inspired A knight of the Seven KingdomsWalder was a pill even as a toddler.
In the story, Dunk and Egg find themselves at a wedding feast with a daughter of the House of Frey – a wedding that quickly came about because the bride’s younger brother caught her fooling around with a servant. The younger brother is a toddler who finds Dunk so annoying that he comes up with the idea of throwing him into a well – imagine the story he could have rewritten!
And A knight of the Seven Kingdoms Showrunner Ira Parker teased that he wouldn’t mind giving little Walder a cameo Polygon.
“My favorite (cameo idea) is, and look, it’s only in the third book, but there’s a baby Walder Frey,” Parker told the outlet. “I have this hopefully really funny idea that people will probably kill me for. But this idea that something happens, like there’s a runaway horse-drawn cart and this baby is about to be killed and Dunk steps in and saves baby Walder Frey.”
If A knight of the Seven Kingdoms If it goes there, Parker continued, it wouldn’t need a big wink at the audience to make sure everyone gets the reference. “We never make anything of it,” he said. “It just happens and we move on with the story. That’s kind of the best thing we’ve done in the three novels we’ve written (a direct character crossover).”
A knight of the Seven Kingdomsthat adapts The Hedge Knightthe first Dunk and Egg story, coming January 18th on HBO.
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