Is Jon Snow still part of 'Game of Thrones' season 6?

Watch the trailer here and find out

Hear! Hear! Kit Harrington will return to Game of Thrones season six.

Plot twist: As the corpse of Jon Snow.

Fans desperate to know the fate of Jon Snow surely have their answer in a new trailer released Tuesday -- and it's not looking good for the felled warrior.

Played by the 29-year-old British actor Kit Harington, Snow was stabbed by mutinous followers at the end of season five, sparking months of heated debate on social media about whether he really had met his end.

HBO's first full season six trailer opens and closes with what appears to be a lifeless Snow where we left him, his body lying prone in a puddle of his own blood.





"He's gone," says the knight Davos Seaworth, to the backdrop of a plaintive cover of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game.

The 100-second whistlestop tour through the fictional continent of Westeros offers up a mouth-watering smorgasbord of violence, gore, semi-nudity and more violence as viewers are given glimpses of several future storylines in rapid succession.

The action swoops into King's Landing, where an army is moving against the ousted royal Cersei Lannister and her companion, Gregor Clegane -- the brutal warrior otherwise known as The Mountain.

"Order your man to step aside, or there will be violence," commands Cersei's cousin Lancel Lannister. "I choose violence," Cersei replies, smirking from beneath newly shorn hair.

As the trailer ends, Davos says: "I've never been much of a fighter. Apologies for what you're about to see," unsheathing Snow's sword as he stands over the warlord's body.

The #GameofThrones Twitter hashtag began trending worldwide soon after the trailer's release, with speculation rife that all was not as it seemed.

"What a time to be alive," tweeted best-selling American fantasy author Victoria Aveyard.

Here's the trailer:




In a recent interview with Time Out, Harrington was asked about his return to the show. He flat out denied it saying, "Look, I’m not in the show any more. I’m definitely not in the new series."

Harrington has, however, reportedly been on set in Northern Ireland so Time Out asked again, more specifically, if he had filmed any new scenes for the show to which he responded, "I filmed some scenes of me being dead – [jokingly] it’s some of my best work."

"Do you know what happens in the series or have you lost your privileges?" was the next question to which the tight-lipped actor responded, "I don’t have a clue. I know how long I’m a corpse for, but I can’t tell you that!"



In the teaser, Snow's decapitated head says, “The Long night is coming, and the dead come with it.”

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Furthermore, Game of Thrones is now heading into uncharted territory as the seasons have out-paced the books written by George R R Martin, and so readers will no longer be able to base predictions off of the books.

The season premieres on April 24.