'No, God No' — Game of Thrones Actor Kit Harington Says He Spent 10 Years Playing Jon Snow and Doesn't Want to 'Go Anywhere Near It'

Game of Thrones prima Kit Harington sounds similar he's done playing Jon Snow for good, having walk a decennary arsenic the Northerner who knows nothing.

While Game of Thrones finished respective years ago, George R. R. Martin's phantasy franchise is inactive going beardown — with adjacent much spin-offs connected the way. But contempt erstwhile plans for a Jon Snow series, it present sounds similar Harington has parted ways with the quality for good.

"No, deity no," Harington told Variety, erstwhile asked whether he'd reprise his aged relation again for an audiobook version. "I don't wanna spell anyplace adjacent it. I spent 10 years doing that. Thanks, I'm alright."

Kit Harington. Image credit: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty.

Harington precocious recorded the relation of Gilderoy Lockhart for Audible's Harry Potter audio play adaptation, prompting the question of whether helium would ever reprise his relation for a akin audio mentation of Game of Thrones. Harington's effect — that helium doesn't privation to spell "anywhere near" the quality helium erstwhile played to bash truthful — seems beauteous definitive.

Following Game of Thrones' melodramatic decision successful 2019 — which saw Jon Snow past but caput backmost north, pursuing his devastating determination to halt Daenerys — George R.R. Martin confirmed HBO was moving connected a Jon Snow spin-off with the moving rubric "Snow." According to Martin, Harington was processing the bid with his ain team.

But contempt lengthy conversations astir the show's direction, Harington yet revealed that the task was nary longer moving forward. "Currently, it's disconnected the table, due to the fact that we each couldn't find the close communicative to archer that we were each excited astir enough," Harington said past year. "So, we decided to laic down tools with it for the clip being. There whitethorn beryllium a clip successful the aboriginal wherever we instrumentality to it, but astatine the moment, no. It's firmly connected the shelf."

During a Game of Thrones instrumentality normal successful 2022, Harington hinted that his spin-off would absorption connected his character's conflict to flooded past traumas disconnected the heels of play 8's finale. "He's gotta spell backmost up to the spot with each this past and unrecorded retired his beingness reasoning astir however helium killed Dany, and unrecorded retired his beingness reasoning astir Ygritte dying successful his arms, and unrecorded retired his beingness reasoning astir however helium hung Olly, and unrecorded retired his beingness reasoning astir each of this trauma, and that, that's interesting," Harington said astatine the time. Cheerful.

In a abstracted interrogation past year, Harington besides reflected connected however sequels to fashionable shows were historically harder to develop, arsenic they relied connected existing formed returning. "You tally into a batch of issues with a sequel," helium said. "A batch of the formed are done with it by then. So, who are you bringing back? Are you bringing backmost the aforesaid people?

"With ours, it was conscionable astir not uncovering the close communicative and not uncovering thing that was worthy doing, to bring maine backmost to it and to enactment successful it. It conscionable made little sense, the longer we went connected with it, truthful we recanted."

But portion Harington isn't returning anytime soon, HBO has large plans to proceed the Game of Thrones universe. Last month, it laid retired a Marvel-style slate for the coming years, and confirmed it had already renewed upcoming spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms for a 2nd play successful 2027, up of its archetypal play debut connected January 18, 2026. House of the Dragon Season 3, meanwhile, debuts successful summertime 2026, with Season 4 acceptable for 2028.

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