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It looks like they prevailed.
"Game of Thrones" tweeted a teaser poster on Monday with a
partial shot of Jon Snow's rugged, bloodstained face and
trademark hair, with the simple caption "APRIL. #GoTSeason6."
The sixth season will air on HBO in April 2016.
It is the first time the TV series has officially acknowledged
the future of the character, played by British actor Kit
Harington, and the poster sent fans on social media into
overdrive. The "Game of Thrones" tweet was shared more than
35,000 times in three hours on Monday and "Jon Snow" became the
top Twitter trend.
Emmy-winning "Game of Thrones," based on George R. R. Martin's
"A Song of Ice and Fire" books, is a sweeping fantasy epic of
the battle across seven kingdoms for the Iron Throne. It is
HBO's most-watched series, averaging 20 million viewers per
episode this year.
Fan speculation on Jon Snow's fate has ranged from sightings of
Harington on set in Ireland to the actor's decision not to cut
his shoulder-length brown locks, which have become a trademark
of his character.
Little slips from fellow cast members in interviews have also
fueled the fire, but HBO and the show's creators have enjoyed
toying with fans, always avoiding the question and keeping
Harington out of fan-events.
Jon Snow, the illegitimate son of Ned Stark (who was beheaded in
season one) and Commander of the Night's Watch, made it through
five seasons of "Game of Thrones" before being betrayed by his
subjects and stabbed to a seeming death in the penultimate
episode that aired in June.
Whether Jon Snow is actually alive or dead is still not known in
a series that is woven through with dark magic, sorcery and the
mysterious "White Walkers," an army of the undead.
His tragic demise was lamented, but readers of Martin's books
immediately suggested the character could be returning, albeit
through otherworldly means.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy, editing by Jill Serjeant and
Andrew Hay)
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