The hugely successful HBO show Game of Thrones ended after an eight-season run in 2019. But the show’s success and fame had author George R.R. Martin, who wrote the novel series that inspired the HBO drama, wondering if the show’s fans wanted more with Westeros and its history.
Multiple spinoffs had been planned as the show ended, and one such spinoff, House of the Dragon, will premiere on HBO on August 21, 2022. Another spinoff is currently in development under the working title of “Snow” and will follow the story of its titular character Jon Snow, who we all know very well from GoT.
House of the Dragon does not focus on any of the characters featured in GoT. The upcoming HBO fantasy drama will serve as a prequel to the OG show, following the House of Targaryen and the Dance of the Dragons, the civil war between the Targaryen family, set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones.
Writers and producers George and Ryan Condal have already said that there will be some huge differences between the GoT spinoff and its predecessor. The show will keep the angle of carnage and scathing politics, but that’s probably the only mass point of commonality between the two shows.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, George R.R. Martin shared that the Targaryen family and the other characters in House of the Dragon will not be as lovable as the characters in GoT.
The author singled out Arya Stark’s (Maise Williams) character to highlight that these characters are “no Arya” and the kind of people fans will not be able to justify loving. The characters are “all flawed,” and “they do good things” and “bad things.”
It’s powerful, it’s visceral, it’s dark, it’s like a Shakespearean tragedy. There’s no Arya—a character everybody’s going to love. They’re all flawed. They’re all human. They do good things. They do bad things. They’re driven by the lust for power, jealousy, and old wounds—just like human beings. Just like I wrote them.
Martin uses Arya’s example to emphasize the “flawed human” characteristic that all House of the Dragon characters possess. The Fire and Ice author has made clear from the beginning that the upcoming show will only be the same in the genre to GoT, and this here is the key difference.
With the spinoff’s impending release in the upcoming month, fans will see for themselves if all promises will be kept and if House of the Dragon will be able to live up to the level of writing and story of GoT in the earlier seasons.
About House Of The Dragon
House of the Dragon is the prequel series to HBO’s blockbuster Game of Thrones based on George R. R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood.
Set three hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon will show Westeros under the Targaryen family’s rule before the dragons went extinct. It will follow the Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryen civil war between siblings Aegon II and Rhaenyra, who fought for the throne after the death of their father, Viserys I.
Directed by Ryan Condall and Miguel Sapochnik, the show stars Paddy Considine as Viserys I Targaryen, Emma D’Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen, Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen, Tom Glynn-Craney as Aegon II Targaryen, Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower, Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon, Eve Best as Rhaenys Velaryon, Sonoya Mizuno as Mysaria, Fabien Frankel as Criston Cole, and Graham McTavish.
Source: HollywwodReporter
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