United Kingdom, Jan. 11 -- Kit Harington was "angered" by the petition to remake the final season of Game of Thrones.

The 39-year-old actor starred in the HBO fantasy series as Jon Snow and revealed that he was left furious at the online petition to remake the much-criticised eighth season with "competent writers" as he felt it was insulting to the efforts of showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.

Kit told the New York Times newspaper: "That genuinely angered me.

"Like, how dare you? Sorry, that's just how I feel. I think it was a level of idiocy that can only come about through social media."

The concluding season of Game of Thrones was slammed for its reduced length and plot choices and Kit admits that he and the cast were "tire...