{"id":8714,"date":"2024-05-21T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=8714"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T21:27:24","slug":"heres-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2024\/05\/21\/heres-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Egg!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are moving along nicely with our Dunk &amp; Egg spinoff, HBO&#8217;s adaptation of my novella THE HEDGE KNIGHT.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the auditions &#8212; not all, but most &#8212; are done, and we should be able to announce some more cast members shortly.\u00a0\u00a0 We have our Tanselle, Steely Pate, Baelor Breakspear, the Laughing Storm, a couple of Fossoways, Aerion Brightflame (boo, hiss), Prince Maekar, and the rest.\u00a0\u00a0 Lists are being built on Ashford Meadow.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am told they just had the first table read, and that it went great.<\/p>\n<p>And our youngest star can&#8217;t wait to start.\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s Dexter, turning to Egg.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\" ><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/HouseOfTheDragon\/comments\/1cin88b\/dexter_sol_ansell_egg_getting_his_head_shaved\/\">Dexter Sol Ansell (Egg) getting his head shaved ahead of Dunk and Egg filming!<\/a><br \/> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/shad0wqueenxx\/\">u\/shad0wqueenxx<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/HouseOfTheDragon\/\">HouseOfTheDragon<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love it.<\/p>\n<p>THE HEDGE KNIGHT will be a lot shorter than GAME OF THRONES or HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, with a much different tone&#8230; but it&#8217;s still Westeros, so no one is truly safe\u00a0 Ira Parker and his team are doing a great job.\u00a0 I hope to visit the shoot come July, when I swing by Belfast on my way to the worldcon in Glasgow.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The show will make its debut next year&#8230; and if it does well, THE SWORN SWORD and THE MYSTERY KNIGHT will follow.\u00a0 By which time I hope to have finished some more Dunk &amp; Egg stories (yes, after I finish THE WINDS OF WINTER).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and we have our director as well:\u00a0 Owen Harris, a terrific British director whose credits include helming &#8220;San Junipero,&#8221; my all time favorite episode of BLACK MIRROR.\u00a0\u00a0 Owen will direct three of our six episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are moving along nicely with our Dunk &amp; Egg spinoff, HBO&#8217;s adaptation of my novella THE HEDGE KNIGHT. Most of the auditions &#8212; not all, but most &#8212; are done, and we should be able to announce some more cast members shortly.\u00a0\u00a0 We have our Tanselle, Steely Pate, Baelor Breakspear, the Laughing Storm, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,323],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8718,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions\/8718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}