'House Of The Dragon' Will End After Season Four But There is More 'Game Of Thrones' Spin-Offs Coming
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House of the Dragon just aired the finale of its eight-episode sophomore season with the third season currently being written. Production is expected to begin early next year. Showrunner and co-creator Ryan Condal shared in a press conference on Monday a few tidbits of what to expect in Season Three, along with confirming that House of The Dragon will end after Season Four. But fear not, George R.R. Martins fans, there are more Game of Thrones spin-offs on the horizon!
When asked how many episodes to expect in Season Three from HBO, Condal said, “I haven’t had discussions with HBO about it. I would just anticipate the cadence of the show, from a dramatic storytelling perspective, will continue to be the same from Season 2 on.”
One of the storyline's most anticipated events is the Battle of Gullet. Condal spoke to that expectation as well. “As a showrunner you are always in a position of having to balance storytelling and resources you have available to tell that story. We are also starting to think about, what is the final destination of this series and where are we going? A combination of factors led to that re-balance. There is a tremendous amount of resources, construction, armor, costumes and visual effects needed to give the Gullet.” He went on to explain the need to build to the event.
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Condal elaborated further about what to expect concerning Gullet. “We were trying to give the Gullet, which is arguably the most anticipated — well, I would say maybe the second-most-anticipated — action event of ‘Fire & Blood,’ trying to give it the time and the space that it deserves. Obviously, as anybody who’s seen the finale, we’re building to that event. That event will happen very shortly in terms of the storytelling of House of the Dragon. I know everybody wants this to come out every summer,” Condal said. “It’s just that the show is so complex that we’re really making multiple feature films every season. So I apologize for the wait, but I will just say if Rook’s Rest and the Red Sowing are any indication, we’re gonna pull off a hell of a win with the Battle the Gullet in the future.”
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“There are so many great events that we are already writing in Season 3 as it is,” Condal said. “This war really comes to a big head at this point in the storytelling. I mean, if you look at Season 2, it’s largely a metaphor for a nuclear conflict … There’s gonna be giant moments of spectacle but real moments of surprise and character nuance that we’re very much looking forward to.”
In terms of preparing fans for Season Three to hit the small screen, Condal offers some advice: “I invite anybody to take the off season to purchase and read Fire and Blood so you can be armed with lots of information going into Season 3.” Condal commented “It’s a very tricky position in my seat, Sara Hess and I are custodians of this world. We have to render an exciting TV adaptation of this story, knowing there will be a percentage of the gigantic TV audience that has not read the book. We are constantly trying to serve both worlds.”
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As if the Season Two finale, learning of the work in progress toward Season Three and the Battle of Gullet, and that House of the Dragon will be put to rest following Season Four isn’t enough to digest, George R.R. Martin himself has teased that the Game of Thrones television adaptations aren’t done yet. It appears that they aren’t in the ballpark of done yet. Martin shared that as many as seven spin-offs are coming to the small screen in the future, several of which will be animated.
The next series will be titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and will be adapted from Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg, a series of novellas centered on Ser Duncan the Tall and King Aegon V Targaryen set 90 years before the events seen in Game of Thrones.
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