‘House of the Dragon’ fans will have to be patient to see how the story of the ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel continues in Season 2.
According to HBO and HBO Max head Casey Bloys, the HBO series, set 200 years before the events of “Thrones,” wraps up its first season in October, making it highly unlikely that “House of the Dragon” Season 2 will be next. year will be released. ,
“Don’t expect it in 2023, but I think sometime in 2024,” Bloys said Vulture, refusing to receive further specifics about the release of “House of the Dragon” Season 2. “We’re just starting to put the plan together, and like last time, there are a lot of unknowns. It doesn’t have to be shy or secretive, but you don’t want to say it’s going to be ready on this date, and Then you have to move it.
Like “Game of Thrones” before it, HBO undoubtedly wants “House of the Dragon” to be a consistent presence in the Emmy race, which means the network will likely start Season 2 before the 2023-24 eligibility window closes. Will be At the end of May 2024 if they can. The show’s first season will certainly be a force to be reckoned with in the 2022-23 Awards season when the next Emmys ceremony – dated for September 2023 – rolls around.
“House of the Dragon” tells the story of the beginning of the end of House Targaryen, and the show’s first season chronicled the long backstories for characters important to King Viserys’ reign and the civil war that resulted from his spurious succession plans. Season 1 ends with battle lines between Viserys’ daughter Rainera (Emma D’Arcy) and her younger half-brother Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) driven by her mother (and Rainera’s childhood friend) Queen Alicante (Olivia Cooke). Happened.
While “Game of Thrones” was on an annual release schedule for its first seven seasons, the eighth and final season did not begin until two years after Season 7 ended due to the increased scale of the previous season. The show, of course, debuted on a much smaller production scale than “House of the Dragon.”
Showrunner Ryan Condall previously told TheWrap that “House of the Dragon” is a shorter story than “Game of Thrones” has been told and likely won’t last as long as the major series goes, so While the wait between seasons may be long, the story may end in a few seasons.
“This particular story, which I’m telling now, Dancing of the Dragons, as the original series, doesn’t have that much breadth,” Kondall said. “Not to say it’s less interesting. Really great series. But I think part of making a series is knowing when to unveil and end.”
That said, Condall teased that there is a rich Targaryen history to be mined before and after the events of “House of the Dragon” that could be continued in another HBO series.
“But I’ve always said the show is called ‘House of the Dragons.’ It’s not called ‘The Dance of the Dragons.’ And I think there’s a very rich Targaryen dynasty of 300 years, many of which There are stories, and that’s the thing that I think is most promising for the future for Westeros fans is George [R.R. Martin] Some deeply complicated history is written. It is three centuries long that begins with the Conquest of Aegon – in fact it begins before the Conquest of Aegon, with the story of the Targaryens abandoning old Valeria because of a little girl’s dream. There are a lot of stories out there to be mined. I think as long as there is an interested audience, there are a lot of Targaryens to come. ,
