Production for “House of the Dragon” season 3 is underway in the UK. And according to showrunner Ryan Condal, it’s going to be the “biggest” season yet. The battle for the Iron Throne is set to begin, pitting Targaryen against Targaryen and dragon versus dragon. Condal promises that it will be worth the wait.
It Has Been a Long Wait for ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3
It’s been nearly a year since season 2 of “House of the Dragon” aired on HBO, but filming is just now getting underway for season 3. Condal told Entertainment Weekly that the delay is just part of the adaptation process.
They needed to lay the groundwork before the Targaryen civil war, known as the Dance of the Dragon. That took a lot of time and money, and decisions had to be made regarding resources.
“There’s been no television show in history that ever said, ‘We have too much money and too much time to make this. You’re always making decisions as you go along as to, how are we going to use the resources we have right now to tell the best story we can possibly tell? But I appreciate everybody’s patience,” Condal said.
Ryan Condal Breaks Down the Ambitious Season 3
Season 3 of “House of the Dragon” will feature eight new episodes, and Condal promises that the audience will get what they want.
“This is certainly our biggest season to date, both in terms of ambition and just the practical size, the amount of sets,” Condal revealed.
“We’re cresting that narrative parabola here and starting to come down into, if not the endgame, the midpoint and getting into the late Act 2 and moving onto the start of Act 3. Anybody that’s read that book [George R. R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood”] knows that the narrative gets bigger and grimmer as it goes along, and the show has to match that ambition as best it possibly can.”
The showrunner promises that the war in the upcoming season “goes very hot, very, very, quickly.” And those who were waiting for all of the “horrible, brutal, pitiless bloodshed will be getting it in copious amounts.”
‘House of the Dragon’ Showrunner Calls George R. R. Martin’s Critique ‘Disappointing’
Despite the success of “House of the Dragon” and the fan anticipation for season 3, author George R. R. Martin has thrown shade at the series on his “Not a Blog” LiveJournal. He quickly deleted the post, but the internet lives forever.
Martin detailed “everything that’s gone wrong with House of the Dragon,” including the omission of certain characters and taking the wrong approach to key scenes. Condal admits that as a fan of “A Song of Ice and Fire” for almost 25 years, Martin’s post was “disappointing.”
“[‘Fire & Blood] is this incomplete history, and it requires a lot of joining of the dots and a lot of invention as you go along the way,” Condal said.
“I will simply say, I made every effort to include George in the adaptation process. I really did. Over years and years. And we really enjoyed a mutually fruitful, I thought, really strong collaboration for a long time. But at some point, as we got deeper down the road, he just became unwilling to acknowledge the practical issues at hand in a reasonable way.”
No premiere date for “House of the Dragon” season 3 has been set. Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on Max.
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House of the Dragon Showrunner Calls Season 3 the ‘Biggest’ Yet