“You’re Going To Meet Five New Dragons”: House of the Dragons’ ShowRunner Reveals Season Two Tidbits
On Tuesday, March 8, during an FYC screening in Los Angeles, Ryna Condal, the showrunner of HBO’s House of the Dragon, the prequel to the Game of Thrones series, announced an exciting fact about season two.
He tells the audience that five extra dragons will be added in season two and that the show’s second season will be returning “shortly.” Fans are already excited about this as there’ll be many more dragons to the existing number of dragons on the show.
In season one, there are already nine dragons — Caraxes, Vhagar, Balerion, Dreamfyre, Meleys, Seasmoke, Vermax, Moondancer, and Sunfyre. With five more additions, fans are excited that season two will run on another level of intensity.
Speaking about the exact release date of the show’s second season, the showrunner’s answer to all such questions at the screening was, “shortly.” The second season is expected to premiere in late 2024, following responses like “we don’t want to rush things” from HBO’s Chief Content Officer Casey Bloys.
Speaking to Variety concerning the show, he tells the publication, Bloys revealed that he wants the show to be built on natural flow rather than be rushed. “I am not doing it based on wanting to have one a year, two a year. I want to do it based on the scripts that we’re excited about,” he stated.
During the FYC event on Tuesday, the cast members of the show were present. They include Rhys Ifans (Otto Hightower), Eve Best (Rhaenys Targaryen), Steve Toussaint (Corlys Velaryon), Fabien Frankel (Criston Cole), Matt Smith (Daemon Targaryen), Olivia Cooke (Alicent Hightower), Paddy Considine (King Viserys Targaryen) and Emily Carey (young Alicent Hightower). Also present at the screening was George R.R Martins, the author of Games of Thrones and Fire & Blood, the book House of the Dragons is based upon.
Answering questions about the show, the author and co-creator of Game of Thrones told the audience that Ryan “has an amazing writing staff” because although the book is “fake history,” he noted that the showrunner added a lot of “wonderful” and “moving” details not present in the book.
Going further, the 74-year-old author admitted that another aspect of House of the Dragon that pleased him has to do with the dragons, pointing out that the dragons in Game of Thrones “were all the same,” but the show creators imbibed “personality” into the ones in the prequel.
