Earlier this year, offscreen play surrounding House of the Dragon play 2 threatened to eclipse what had happened successful Westeros, arsenic A Song of Ice and Fire creator George R.R. Martin—who’d notably kept rather during Game of Thrones‘ arguable last play successful 2019—took to his blog to aerial retired his frustrations with the prequel series.
Though helium soon deleted his post, the sting was inactive felt implicit astatine HBO and by House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal. Since Martin’s biggest gripes revolved astir changes made to the communicative successful play 2 that helium thinks volition person a detrimental impact connected characters down the road, some HBO and Condal’s responses to Martin’s station emphasized the information that adaptations tin and volition instrumentality indispensable liberties with their root material.
But portion Martin has since said he’s done talking astir House of the Dragon (though we’ll spot if helium holds to that erstwhile play 3 rolls around), helium is eagerly awaiting different Thrones spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. With that successful mind, it seems helium and HBO are inactive connected semi-decent terms… contempt each that humor and cheese.
That’s a sentiment shared by HBO main Casey Bloys, who was inevitably asked astir the House of the Dragon dust-up astatine a caller HBO property conference, Deadline reported.
“[Martin is] precise important to me, to us,” Bloys explained. “But erstwhile we enactment shows together, it’s similar putting a matrimony together. Marriages tin beryllium difficult, particularly erstwhile Ryan Condal is making originative decisions and adapting work. It tin beryllium fraught. Any matrimony tin get rocky. I would similar everybody get along, of course. But with the originative process, we are ever going to person bumps. That’s to beryllium expected.”
Bloys besides confirmed a Game of Thrones-adjacent tidbit we already knew about: Kit Harington’s Jon Snow spin-off is nary longer connected the table—or the Wall, arsenic the lawsuit whitethorn be. “We make a batch of ideas. Sometimes they don’t work. We each agreed it didn’t travel together,” Bloys said, though helium did adhd the tiniest sprinkle of anticipation for each those Jon Snow superfans: “Maybe we’ll effort again.”
At immoderate rate, caller bid A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms should beryllium our adjacent confirmed sojourn to Westeros, sometime successful 2025.
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