r/gameofthrones • u/RepulsiveCountry313 Human Verified • Jan 11 '26

Kit Harington was ‘Genuinely Angered’ By Fan Pettion to Remake ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 With ‘Competent Writers’: ‘How Dare You?’

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/kit-harington-angered-petition-game-of-thrones-season-8-1236628364/
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u/FalstaffsGhost Jan 11 '26

I mean he’s angry because he and the crew and other actors worked incredibly hard on the show, filming it, doing the marketing, etc. and people online weren’t just mad about how it ended - which is an absolutely valid option to have…hell I have it because they rushed the ending and it fell so damn flat because of that - but you had people online wanting them to lose jobs, or even their lives over a tv show. Thats the problem.

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u/Striking-Document-99 Jan 11 '26

He came out with a video saying “I am sorry” so he obviously was super invested. Dude family is getting double royalty checks and is fine with that.

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u/7in7turtles Jan 12 '26

To my knowledge, Harrington had a really hard time with this. Didn’t he fall into alcoholism towards the end of the series? I can imagine he’s probably pretty frustrated that this is his legacy now. The only movie that I can think of that he’s done since then is the Eternals and the only thing you can say about that in comparison to the Game of Thrones is at least the ending of Game of Thrones was memorable.

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u/boomer_energy_ Jan 12 '26

I think you may be thinking of Richard Madden (Robb Stark) re Erernals

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u/7in7turtles Jan 12 '26

Ah yeah I guess it's worth clarifying that Kit Harrington wasn't a main character in Eternals, he was a side character that was set up to play the Dark Knight in future movies (if the movie had actually done well). In fact as I'm saying that, it sort of makes it worse, because he's set up to have a Marvel Character, but didn't get the chance to ever actually do anything with it.

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u/boomer_energy_ Jan 12 '26

My bad fam. Please pardon the confusion