DUBAI: Ira Parker knew that adapting one of author George R. R. Martin’s most beloved novellas from the “Game of Thrones” universe would require a preternatural degree of trust and collaboration.
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The showrunner of the new HBO show “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” which is showing on OSN+ in the region, cut his teeth at the “Game of Thrones” table as a writer on “House of the Dragon,”and has now worked closely with Martin to bring the author’s tales of Ser Duncan the Tall (Dunk), a hedge knight of humble origins, and his sharp-tongued young squire Aegon Targaryen (Egg), who will grow up to become King Aegon V, to the screen, crafting a series that feels intimate and character-driven within the expansive world of Westeros.
Finn Bennett as Prince Aerion Targaryen. (HBO)
“Very early on, I told him, ‘I’m not going to put anything in this show that you don’t want in (it).’ And because of that, it never became a question of his version versus my version. We were just making a version together,” said Parker of working with Martin. “I would write drafts, and he would be the first person I’d send them to. Well, my wife, then to George, because she’s sometimes softer in her appraisals of my writing.”
