The showrunners of the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon revealed that they already know how the series will end.
House of the Dragon boss Miguel Sapochnik told ComicBook.com that he and co-showrunner Ryan Condal teased what fans should expect in future seasons. "We have a very, very precise idea of where we wanna go with it, but we can't tell you," Sapochnik said before going on to compare the series to Star Wars Episode IV. "So it's kind of, we're in the middle of a history that is rich and full of stories to tell and it's a good place to start."
Condal echoed Sapochnik's statement in another interview, where he discussed that the show's creative team has "a fairly good plan laid out" for House of the Dragon. "Plans like that always have to be fairly broad, yet you have an idea of landmarks, and places that you want to go, and a sense of an end point, which I think is really important, particularly with this story," Condal said.
Like its predecessor, House of the Dragon is based on the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin. Unlike Game of Thrones, the source material of the latest HBO series has been finished, as the series is primarily based on Martin's 2018 book titled Fire & Blood. Both House of the Dragon and Fire & Blood take place nearly 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones and depict the beginning of the end of the reign of House Targaryen. The show is also expected to add context that will allow viewers see Daenerys Targaryen in a completely different light than before.
Despite its place in the series' timeline, Condal insists that House of the Dragon is not a Game of Thrones prequel. "George [Martin] doesn't call House of the Dragon a prequel, he calls it a successor show, which I've always really liked - I guess it's a predecessor show. But I think that's actually one of the things that makes it really interesting," he said. "Because there's such a huge time gap between the shows, you really are relying on the thematic resonance between the two, and seeing how the dynamics of history change over time."
The first episode of House of the Dragon is available to watch now on HBO and HBO Max. New episodes of the series arrive every Sunday.
Source: ComicBook.com