With the first season of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” a resounding success for the premium cabler and already renewed, there’s the obvious question as to how long the “Game of Thrones” spin-off intends to run.
Author and series co-creator George R. R. Martin previously said on his blog that the thinking is ‘to do justice’ the series will have to go on for four seasons of ten episodes each to cover the entirety of the ‘Dance of Dragons’.
Martin, however, famously predicted that “Game of Thrones” needed about ten seasons (or more) to tell its story and that didn’t happen with the showrunners rushing to end the series in eight seasons. “House of the Dragon” showrunner Ryan Condal also isn’t locking a four-season plan, telling THR this week the ending has yet to be determined:
“‘I don’t know yet’ is the honest answer. [There’ll be] more storytelling to come after season two. I’m very focused on the ten episodes in front of me at the moment.
The question is less where this story ends and more where does the curtain fall [on the show]. This is the end of a chapter in the story, and then another chapter begins.”
Unlike with ‘Thrones’, the Dance of Dragons storyline is complete within the “Fire & Blood” book upon which the show is based. So, as Condal says, the ending is more a question of deciding how far past the war they will cover: “The question is less where this story ends and more where does the curtain fall [on the show].”
