A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Tom McCullagh on Scaling Down Westeros and Bridge-Building

'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' seizes the small-story moment in prestige TV with Dunk and Egg

Ser Duncan is tall, but his story is small.And Ira Parker, showrunner of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdom,” HBO's latest entry to the “Game of Thrones” universe that has charmed and disarmed viewers with its humble story of big, raw, aspiring knight Dunk and his tiny, cue ball-bald squire Egg, says it's going to stay that way.“If anything, I’d say Season 2 might feel even smaller,” Parker said. “It’s not at all busy and everything. There’s almost …

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Tom McCullagh on Scaling Down Westeros and Bridge-Building

After years of dragons, armies and sprawling battlefields, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms takes a more intimate approach to life in Westeros. The world is familiar, but feels smaller, as the hedge knight Dunk tries to find his place within it. That intimate shift shaped how production designer Tom McCullagh, who also worked as an art director on Game of Thrones, approached the spinoff series. “We were in between two established worlds with Game …