“It should scare you, and it will scare you, but it’s also really thought-provoking,” Harington said of Scott Z. Burns’ climate change anthology series.

When it comes to environmental storytelling, there’s several different routes a project can take. Some have opted for scaring an audience into action (like Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up) while others have tried to Trojan horse climate messages into more uplifting fare, or take a more by-the-numbers documentary approach.

For Extrapolations, Apple TV+’s new anthology drama following eight different stories of people’s lives upended by climate change, creator Scott Z. Burns is taking inspiration from another future-looking anthology series, as star Kit Harington recalled how “Scott always described this to me as a kind of Black Mirror of a climate change show, and I think it falls in that.”

“There are thriller elements to it, there are horror elements to it and it should scare you, and it will scare you, but it’s also really thought-provoking,” Harington told The Hollywood Reporter at the show’s Los Angeles premiere on Tuesday. The star also commended the extensive research Burns put into the show, saying, “I think in time it’ll become a really historical piece; whatever anyone thinks of it now, when we fast-forward in 50 years’ time, people will be looking at this going, ‘Well, that’s what they thought would happen, they were right or they were wrong,’ and that was irresistible to me.”

Burns, who sees the climate crisis as “the most important issue of our time,” said when the show was greenlit he called up McKay — who has become a climate activist in life as well as through projects like Don’t Look Up — and “he said a really amazing thing, he said, ‘I hope that someday you and I are sitting around and there’s 10 climate change shows like there’s 10 hospital shows or 10 lawyer shows.’ So, I really hope that one of the things this will do is tell people there are stories to be made about what is happening all around us.”

As the writer of 2011’s Contagion, which many pointed to as having predicted the COVID-19 pandemic, Burns has somewhat of a reputation for seeing future crises, though he sees the two experiences differently.
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Kit Harington made an appearance at the Game of Thrones convention in L.A. where he was inevitably asked about the Jon Snow sequel series that was announced earlier this year.

Although Harington couldn’t say much about the development of the show, he did talk about how Jon Snow ended in the series and what could be happening to him after his character killed Daenerys.

“I think if you asked him, he would’ve felt he got off lightly,” Harington said during the panel at the convention Sunday night, according to Entertainment Weekly. “At the end of the show when we find him in that cell, he’s preparing to be beheaded and he wants to be. He’s done. The fact he goes to the Wall is the greatest gift and also the greatest curse.”

Harington continued, “He’s gotta go back up to the place with all this history and live out his life thinking about how he killed Dany, and live out his life thinking about Ygritte dying in his arms, and live out his life thinking about how he hung Olly, and live out his life thinking about all of this trauma, and that, that’s interesting.”

Without directly talking about the Jon Snow spinoff, Harington mentioned what state of mind his character was in at the end of Game of Thrones and indirectly teased the spinoff series.

“So I think where we leave him at the end of the show, there’s always this feeling of like… I think we wanted some kind of little smile that things are OK. He’s not OK,” he added.

Earlier this year George R.R. Martin revealed that it was Harington that came up with the idea of continuing Snow’s storyline in a new series.

“Yes, it was Kit Harrington (sic) who brought the idea to us,” Martin wrote in his blog back in June of this year. “I cannot tell you the names of the writers/ showrunners, since that has not been cleared for release yet… but Kit brought them in too, his own team, and they are terrific.”

Martin also let loose that SNOW is the working title of the spinoff series. [Source]

Ashleigh Cummings will star alongside Game of Thrones star Kit Harington in the upcoming thriller, What Remains Of Us.

The 29-year-old Australian actress will play the role of a young mother and wife.

The upcoming film will be produced by Poker Face’s Ryan Hamilton, Martin Owen, Addam Bramich, and Jack Christian.

Set in 1965, a ten-year-old girl begins to question her unusual life in her family’s fortified compound deep in the mountains of Arkansas.

She discovers that once a month her father (Harrington) turns into a monster but is ultimately convinced by her parents that there is nothing to be afraid of.

Yet when the monster escapes, the girl must confront the harsh reality of her father’s identity and grapples with a life-altering decision.

What Remains Of Us will be directed by Alexander Farrell and is set for release sometime next year. [Source]

The Jon Snow actor joins the fan event, which announces a new city and date.

The King in the North has signed on to the official Game of Thrones fan convention.

Kit Harington has joined the lineup for the event, which is also announcing a new location and date.

The convention was originally supposed to make its debut in Las Vegas last February. It’s now being re-launched for December (9-11) in Los Angeles.

The Jon Snow actor will be joining previously announced Thrones castmembers Alfie Allen (“Theon Greyjoy”), Jack Gleeson (“Joffrey Baratheon”), Kristofer Hivju (“Tormund Giantsbane”), Kristian Nairn (“Hodor”), Daniel Portman (“Podrick Payne”), Gemma Whelan (“Yara Greyjoy”) and Isaac Hempstead Wright (“Bran Stark”).

The convention will be hosted by Jason Concepcion and Greta Johnsen, who are also hosting HBO’s upcoming Official Game of Thrones Podcast: House of the Dragon.

Last month, the news broke that Harington is also attached to a Jon Snow spinoff series that’s in development at HBO.

The news comes as Thrones upgrades to streaming in 4K on select devices for the first time as HBO gears up for its publicity push for its Dragon prequel series premiering Aug. 21. [Source]

Kit Harington is attached to reprise his fan-favorite role in the first potential ‘Thrones’ project to take place after the events in the original series.

You know nothing about HBO’s post-Game of Thrones plans.

The network has entered into early development on its first sequel to its blockbuster fantasy drama: A live-action spinoff series centered on the fan-favorite character Jon Snow, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Kit Harington is attached to reprise the role should a series move forward. The actor was twice nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of an action hero who struggles to uphold his family’s noble values in a brutal world.

In Thrones’ eighth-and-final season, Jon Snow discovered his true name was Aegon Targaryen, a potential heir to the Iron Throne. In the series finale, he was exiled from Westeros and journeyed North of the Wall with the Wildlings to leave his old life behind.

Since completing his work across eight seasons of Thrones, Harington has appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, co-starring in 2021’s Eternals. He also recently starred in the title role in the National Theater’s live production of Henry V. On Thrones, the actor was known for enduring some of the show’s most grueling filming, including the final season’s infamous 11 weeks of winter night shoots in Northern Ireland.

The development signals an intriguing new direction in HBO’s handling of author George R.R. Martin’s fantasy universe, a move not unlike Disney+’s management of its Star Wars and Marvel brands where the streamer has found success launching character-focused sequel series such as WandaVision (starring Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (with Ewan McGregor reprising his iconic role).
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Actor-producer Kit Harington (Game of Thrones, Gunpowder) has signed with UTA for representation in all areas.

Harington broke out in 2011 in the starring role of Jon Snow on HBO’s critically-acclaimed, Emmy winning fantasy series, Game of Thrones, based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series by George R. R. Martin. Over the course of the show’s eight-season run, the part brought him seven Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, two Emmy nominations, and noms at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards, among other accolades.

Harington most recently appeared in Marvel’s Eternals, the hit Amazon series Modern Love and Netflix’s Criminal: UK. In 2018, he exec produced and starred alongside Peter Mullan, Mark Gatiss and Liv Tyler in the HBO Max miniseries Gunpowder, which had him portraying his real-life ancestor, Catholic rebel Robert Catesby.

The actor has also appeared in films including the HBO sports mockumentary 7 Days in Hell, the Sony Pictures Classics drama Testament of Youth and the big-screen adaptation of the hit British spy series Spooks: The Greater Good. He also lent his voice to the animated film How to Train Your Dragon 2, which won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film and secured an Academy Award nomination in 2014.

Harington studied at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and made his stage debut as Albert Narracott in the hit production War Horse. He also previously appeared in Laura Wade’s Posh at the Royal Court Theatre in London and recently starred in an adaptation of Sam Shepard’s modern classic True West on the West End. He will return to the stage this spring to star as Henry V in a modern rendition of William Shakespeare’s play of the same name at the Donmar Warehouse, which was conceived as a provocative meditation on patriotism, nationalism, and England’s relationship with Europe.

Harington continues to be represented by United Agents and attorney Karl Austen. [Source]