Game of Thrones - "House Of The Dragon" Official Threads (NO SPOILERS....ZERO)

[humminbird]

Aegons face at the end was priceless

 

[Json]

Sea Snake getting a spin-off?

hopefully they cast a fine ass young Rhaenys

 

[EzekelRAGE]

On resetera, some show only ppl(me included) got into it with bookreaders posting spoilers/book differences in the thread. We just asked them to at least spoiler tag it, They refused saying differences arent spoilers and technically it's a history book so none of it is really spoiling anything. So we made our own show only thread.

I made this gif and wanted to share it here

 

[gldnone913]

Can we agree the Viserys was a terrible king. He knew naming Rhaynera then having a son would cause bloodshed after his death. But yet he never took steps to mitigate it. Causing the civil war that will eventually be the end of dragons

I don't think he was terrible. He fukked up, but he wasn't terrible. I think he fukked up in the way he named his heir, regardless of whom. He named Rhaenyra but didn't really do shyt for her afterwards until he was on her dying bed. And it looks like shyt was mitigated until he was high off lean and spit that Prince that was Promised shyt to Alicent. He also fukked up bringing Otto back into the fold. If Otto is out of the picture, there likely wouldn't be a plan to usurp the throne.

 

[LordDeathwatch]

On resetera, some show only ppl(me included) got into it with bookreaders posting spoilers/book differences in the thread. We just asked them to at least spoiler tag it, They refused saying differences arent spoilers and technically it's a history book so none of it is really spoiling anything. So we made our own show only thread.

I made this gif and wanted to share it here

@Neo The Resurrected ONE we just found your new sig.

 

[Burned Verses]

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

I read on twitter that they used real dragons for the final ep so that’s probably why

Spoiler

This simple ass joke got me

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Sea Snake getting a spin-off?

They setting the black man up to fail. I’d rather they not do it versus doing it and setting him up to flop. Cuz please believe it’s gonna flop.

 

[SCJoe]

“To elude a storm, you can either sail into it, or around it. But you must never await its coming.” -Lord Corlys. I guess he tried to sail into it.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Are we assuming this shyt is going to take us all the way to the mad king? This was a epic season

The initial pitch was for "House Of The Dragon" to be a miniseries that covered various important parts of the Targaryen history. Aegon's Conquest, Dance Of Dragons, the conquest of Dorne, etc. Whether they visit those other two things still who knows.

Timeline wise the thing that gets you closest to the Mad King is the Dunk & Egg stories, which are also in development. That would cover the childhood and reign of Aegon V, the grandfather of the Mad King.

 

[BigBlackSea]

It looks like Daemon will be pulling out that big dragon Venithor as the equalizer against the Green's Vhagar.

I wonder how a matchup would go if he decided to use Caraxes against Aemond?

Vhagar's got experience and size, but Aemon look like he hasn't really leaned into his gully side, as shown when he chomped on Luc. Daemon and Caraxes might as well be one being when they ride together, and they both seem like they're ready to pop off and go bloodlusted at the drop of a hat. They don't make threats, they make promises.

Shyt would probably look like Tyson vs Holmes, with the younger contender going HAM and just overpowering the larger, older champion.

 

[Diunx]

On resetera, some show only ppl(me included) got into it with bookreaders posting spoilers/book differences in the thread. We just asked them to at least spoiler tag it, They refused saying differences arent spoilers and technically it's a history book so none of it is really spoiling anything. So we made our own show only thread.

I made this gif and wanted to share it here

Sounds like you uncultured swine should read the book

 

[Tasha And]

The initial pitch was for "House Of The Dragon" to be a miniseries that covered various important parts of the Targaryen history. Aegon's Conquest, Dance Of Dragons, the conquest of Dorne, etc. Whether they visit those other two things still who knows.

Timeline wise the thing that gets you closest to the Mad King is the Dunk & Egg stories, which are also in development. That would cover the childhood and reign of Aegon V, the grandfather of the Mad King.

Nah House of the Dragon from the very beginning was always a Dance of the Dragons adaptation.

GRRM pitched two shows to HBO when they asked him for spinoffs - The Dance, and a Dunk and Egg adaptation. Ryan Condal had previously met with GRRM and asked if he could develop Dunk and Egg. But HBO originally declined Dunk and Egg and instead tabbed Carly Wray to develop the Dance adaptation. GRRM and Carly could not agree on where to start the show in the timeline. George wanted to start earlier, Carly wanted to start later, so HBO next went to Bryan Cogman (who was still working on writing the final season of Game of Thrones) who developed his pitch but saw it get declined in favor of the Long Night prequel show by Jane Goldman.

GRRM still persisted in wanting to see the Dance adapted so he personally met his friend Ryan Condal for dinner and hired him on the spot to develop the Dance. They then met at GRRM's house, opened the book, argued about where to start, found a compromise starting point, broke the pilot together, wrote a series bible, and then took it to HBO.

GRRM has spoken several times about how HBO wasn't really listening to his ideas and desires at this point. HBO was hiring their own writers to develop shows completely independently from GRRM. For instance, he had no idea they were even developing the Long Night show at the same time they asked him for spinoff ideas, and was surprised to learn they had that in development, plus like 10 other shows they were kicking around. He's since said that many of the writers HBO hired had never even read his books, and that he didn't want to go through that, which is why he wanted Ryan Condal specifically.

Once HBO received the $30 million filmed pilot for The Long Night prequel (called Bloodmoon), they screened it for execs, canceled it because it wasn't up to par to be their big spinoff series, and ordered a full series of the Condal and GRRM created Dance adaptation, which they named House of the Dragon. Then Ryan went to Miguel to see if he wanted to come on board as co-show runner, since he and Miguel had worked together in the past and Miguel had name cache from his work on Thrones.

What Miguel has said is they could conceivably turn House of the Dragon into an anthology, meaning they keep the branding "House of the Dragon" as an umbrella for other Targaryen stories throughout their 300 year history in Westeros. But that isn't set in stone, he was speaking hypothetically about what they could do once they finish the story of the Dance. But that was never the initial plan. In fact, Aegon's Conquest got it's own pitch already - they were going to write Aegon the Conqueror as a drunk

One effort was a script about the destruction of the ancient Targaryen empire of Valyria by Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island), another was a take on the Dornish warrior queen Nymeria by Oscar winner Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential) and yet another — like much in this story, never before reported — was about Aegon’s conquest of Westeros and penned by Rand Ravich and Far Shariat (The Astronaut’s Wife). That script portrayed the William the Conqueror-inspired figure as a drunken lout.

Inside ‘House of the Dragon’: The Epic Mission to Make the Next ‘Game of Thrones’

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www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Tasha And]

Referring to the name for this particular Targaryen civil war that's about to break out, Condal remarks, "I don't know if the Dance of the Dragons will ever have the sprawl that the original Game of Thrones did, simply because of North of the Wall and Esso and all these other places that it went. But certainly the season that we're writing, the rhythms of this show are going to feel much more like a middle season — seasons 3-6 of Game of Thrones — in terms of its scope and breadth and the number of characters."

While season 1 was focused primarily on Rhaenyra, Alicent, Viserys, and Daemon as the four main characters, season 2 "does fall into that ensemble piece where you're following multiple characters," Condal adds. "They're not all in the same place, but this is still very much a story of Alicent and Rhaenyra and their families pitted against each other. We're not gonna suddenly pull away from telling their stories. It's just the nature of this thing, in season 2, it really opens up the world in a big way and the sprawl grows quite a bit."

'House of the Dragon' season 2 'opens up the world in a big way'

'House of the Dragon' season 2 "opens up the world in a big way," says co-creator Ryan Condal: "We've flipped the chessboard over and spilled the pieces on the ground."

ew.com

 

[42 Monks]

RIP to Vaemond..........a real one

one of the highlights of the season for sure