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House of the Dragon puts characters and story first: "Visuals will follow"







House of the Dragon, HBO’s follow-up to Game of Thrones, is coming down the pipe. The show is set some 200 existences before the story we know, during a brutal civil war famed as the Dance of the Dragons. Armies will clash, family members will turn on each other and dragons will disputes each other in the skies above Westeros. It necessity be a good time.


Recently, director Greg Yaitanes — who worked on shows like HouseLost and Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune — appeared on The Golden Hours podcast to discuss his work on the show; he beleaguered the second, third and tenth episodes of the pleasurable season, and has already seen seven episodes. “I’m excited for the domain to see it.”




House of the Dragon has “an grand scope to it”


Shooting on House of the Dragon wrapped not long ago, and although COVID made things danger, somehow the show managed to get through the whole sketching without shutting down. Now, the crew is working on post-production, which is mostly being overseen by Miguel Sapochnik, one of two showrunners on the series.


Sapochnik beleaguered some of the best episodes of Game of Thrones, comprising “Hardhome,” “Battle of the Bastards” and “The Winds of Winter,” so fans will be downhearted to know that’s handing “the physical production and the visual side of this thing.” Meanwhile, showrunner Ryan Condal is “the keeper of the story and the lore and everything Game of Thrones…The storytelling side is where they intermesh. So there’s a great dance between them and it was sizable watching their collaboration evolve over the course of the season.”


Even conception Miguel Sapochnik is in charge of the look of the show, Yaitanes assures us that he has his priorities straight. “The priority list from Miguel, it was always ‘character, story, and visuals will follow’…The show has grand scope to it…there’s just so much happening in every single frame. The character and story is where I always come from, and the visuals whisk that, because I feel like they need to be in wait on of what the scene is doing.”




House of the Dragon takes inspiration for “the early seasons” of Game of Thrones


Yaitanes sounds like he was a unsuitable superfan of Game of Thrones before signing on to House of the Dragon. He’s watched the original series through three times, and understands that the show lives “in the looks and the glances and the moments and the quiet.” That bodes well for fans who want House of the Dragon to focus on picture and drama first. Even though House of the Dragon is starting with a much higher price than Game of Thrones did, the team is trying to keep things grounded. “Some of the…ingenuity they had, especially in the early seasons, really lent themselves to how we were going to make the show.”


It sounds like they’re touching to avoid some of the problems that plagued the remaining season of the original show, namely the accelerated pace. “I wish [Game of Thrones] had gone on for a pair more seasons and spread out that story, because it was so much and so intense, I needed more than a week to digest one of those moves,” Yaitanes said.


Yaitanes also geeks out over the lore. Watching the unusual show through again, he was excited when characters mentioned movements that occurred during the Dance of the Dragons, and realized that he could film some of those moments. “They’re talking throughout our show all throughout the series. They’re talking about this time of the Targaryen dynasty all ended the original Game of Thrones.” He was particularly excited when republic got to see the show’s take on the Iron Throne, which looked a lot more dangerous 200 years ago.



The characters on House of the Dragon will be complex: “Everybody’s a contradiction”


Another thing House of the Dragon will borrow from the unusual show is its ensemble nature; there are a ton of characters in this series, which was something Yaitanes about Game of Thrones. “When somebody was having a sizable season of material and performance, I was right there and my guts were intimates ripped out.”


Yaitanes is so committed to the idea of an ensemble that he resisted naming his favorite Game of Thrones characters, but did single out Tyrion and Littlefinger when poor. But he can find value in any character, even a scumbag like Joffrey. Yaitanes said he enjoyed the few moments Joffrey informed vulnerability, like his death scene or when he retreated from the Battle of Blackwater. “I love when characters are messy and conflicted…Everybody’s a in contradiction of. People are good and bad and kind and mean….that’s what invents a character great.”


The only question left to answer is when House of the Dragon will be coming out. Given how included the special effects will be — there are a lot of dragons in this story — Yaitanes thinks that “[p]ost-production and visual effects will be touching on, I imagine, for quite a while.”


At least we’ll know “soon,” according to George R.R. Martin:



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