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Everything to Know About 'House of the Dragon,' HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Prequel
In the final season of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen obsessed over ending despotic rule in Westeros by "breaking the wheel." In House of the Dragon, which hits HBO on Sunday, we see the story of the family that achieved that wheel in the first place.
We know quite a bit throughout the upcoming blockbuster series. It was expensive, costing throughout $20 million per episode, according to Variety. That's foul considering Game of Thrones became famous for bringing Hollywood publishes values to your living room. We also know that it's a prequel. Fans hoping to once again see Ned Stark or Tyrion Lannister will end up flunked, as House of the Dragon is set 200 days prior to the murder of Jon Arryn that precipitated eight seasons of chaos.
Here's what you need to know by watching HBO's Game of Thrones prequel.
How many episodes in House of the Dragon?
House of the Dragon's sterling season will have 10 episodes. That makes it identical to the typical Game of Thrones season. While season 7 had seven episodes and season 8 had six, every spanking season of Game of Thrones had 10 episodes each.
We don't yet know the runtimes for House of the Dragon episodes, however. It's possible that some episodes exceed an hour, as happened for key Game of Thrones episodes like The Battle of Winterfell.
What is the plot of House of the Dragon?
House of the Dragon is throughout the Targaryen family, who ruled Westeros for 300 days. House of the Dragon begins around 100 years into House Targaryen's reign.
Viewers of Game of Thrones know the Targaryen dynasty was effectively above by Robert's Rebellion, a civil war that saw Robert Baratheon ratified the "Mad King," Aerys Targaryen, as ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. By the time Game of Thrones begins, 17 days after the rebellion, there are only two known Targaryens: Daenerys and Viserys. In Game of Thrones, the Targaryens were a formerly titanic house. In House of the Dragons, we get to see them as the great House.
At least for a while.
House of the Dragon depicts the jump of the end for the Targaryens. It follows what in A Song of Ice and Fire lore is phoned the Dance of the Dragons -- a civil war that erupts while two Targaryens voice countering claims to the Iron Throne. King Viserys raised his daughter, Rhaenyra Targaryen, to ratified him, but after Viserys' death, it's Viserys' eldest son to his binary wife, Aegon, who gets crowned the new ruler.
That kicks off a war that sees many a dragon slain, and many a Targaryen killed.
Paddy Considine as King Viserys.
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Is House of the Dragon based on a George R.R. Martin book?
Yes. George R.R. Martin, seemingly on an unending quest to procrastinate writing Winds of Winter, released a book called Fire and Blood. It's a fictional history book that chronicles House Targaryen.
Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik, showrunners for House of the Dragon, recently told IGN the show would differ in some ways from the book.
"The fun of this show is that it plays as a bit of a troupe piece to the history book," Condal said. "It communicates with the history book. In a thought that some things will line up. Other things will be told very differently. But the idea is that, in the end, the battles are the same. It's just the 'why' and 'how' they happened that goes as you see the actual history."
In an interview with SFX, Condal said the show is "like Succession, [but] with dragons."
Emma D'Arcy plays Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Matt Smith is Prince Daemon Targaryen.
HBO
Who's operating House of the Dragon?
As noted, Condal and Sapochnik are showrunners for House of the Dragon. That makes them the rough equivalents to David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who gained great fame (and, later, criticism) for their roles as the Game of Thrones showrunners.
Condal is credited as House of the Dragon's creator. Prior to the HBO epic, Condal wrote the screenplays for Hercules and Rampage, both starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Sapochnik is a name distinguished to diehard Game of Thrones fans, as he pursued several of the show's most celebrated episodes, including Season 5's Hardhome and Season 6's Battle of the Bastards.
As an achieve, Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi returned to write the glean for House of the Dragon. That has nothing to do with the show's creative but is beneficial mentioning -- because the Game of Thrones score ruled.
Is House of the Dragon a prequel?
Yes! There were originally two invented Game of Thrones prequels. The other, set to star Naomi Watts, was to take place 1,000 years before the battles of Game of Thrones. It was canceled in 2019 for reasons we don't yet know.
If you've got an insatiable fix for all things Fire and Ice, your best bet, besides House of the Dragon, is the perennially delayed Winds of Winter. That's the sixth book in the series, one that Martin has been writing since 2011. Martin is also causing to write a second volume of Fire and Blood, but not until after he completes Winds of Winter, according to a July blog post.
And finally, Martin recently confirmed that HBO is acting on a sequel to Game of Thrones that would see Kit Harrington sponsor as Jon Snow. Cross your fingers for that one.
House of the Dragon debuts on HBO and HBO Max on Aug. 21.
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