Overview
- Harington told The New York Times that the 2019 Change.org drive to redo Season 8 "genuinely angered" him and he labeled it "idiocy."
- The petition, which asked for a remake with "competent writers," gathered roughly 1.8 million signatures but never led to action.
- He defended showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and pointed to the production’s grueling demands, including a battle sequence filmed over 55 consecutive nights.
- The actor said he was in rehab during the final season’s broadcast and was shocked by the backlash when he left treatment.
- HBO chief Casey Bloys said in 2019 the network noted the petition but never seriously considered a remake, and Harington’s own Jon Snow spinoff was shelved in 2024.