House Of The Dragon teaser trailer introduces Matt Smith and the rest of the Targaryens
The Game Of Thrones spin-off is slated to premiere next year
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Two years after HBO announced that they would definitely be moving forward with Game Of Thrones spin-off, House Of The Dragon, they have finally dropped a teaser trailer. The short clip has given us fire, a brutal jousting match, a slightly clearer idea of when we’ll be able to stream the forthcoming series and, most importantly, a closer look at Matt Smith in that wig.
“Gods, kings, fire, and blood. Dreams didn’t make us kings—dragons did,” Smith says in a voiceover, reminding us that this is very much a story about the House Of Targaryen. Though we don’t get to see the dragon themselves in this teaser, at least we know their arrival is imminent.
The teaser didn’t give us much insight into the plot of the show but here’s what we do know: the series is based on George R.R. Martin’s book Fire And Blood and it will be set 200 years before the events of A Song Of Ice And Fire (which Games Of Thrones was based on).
As its name suggests, House Of The Dragon will focus on the Targaryen family history.
In addition to Smith (who plays Prince Daemon Targaryen), the rest of the cast includes: Emma D’Arcy, Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans, Fabien Frankel. Actors Ryan Corr, Jefferson Hall, David Horovitch, Graham McTavish, Matthew Needham, Bill Paterson, and Gavin Spokes were all recently announced cast members.
Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan Condal are co-showrunners for the series. The pair will also serve as executive producers alongside Martin and Vince Gerardis.
Production on the series began back in April and HBO gave the series a 10-episode order.
At the very end of the teaser, though there was no specific air date, HBO did reveal that the show will air at some point next year.
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I’m like ready for a future cyber punk Game of Thrones, some little blondie overthrowing robots with her dragon, it’s been medieval for legit 1000’s of years.
there already is something like that, it’s called shadowrun
You got that right, chummer!
Isn’t that the plot of Horizon: New Dawn? 😉
idk but I want the Lannister’s fucking each other future style. Instead of twins how about bunch of Jamie clones iron fisting each other.
Do you mean Horizon Zero Dawn? and it’s kind of like that, just mostly fighting machines and trying to stop rogue AI from destroying the world.
I’d watch a HZD TV series. Someone should make it.
Might be kind of cool, just not sure if it’d translate well from games to tv
I too, want a Shadowrun TV show
Shhhhhh…. they’re just gonna fuck it up, you know it, I know it. It’s like asking for a Mechwarrior Universe. Are there years of material to work with there? Of course. Will they try to sum up 100 years of history in 10 episodes? Of course. And we’ll all be the worse for it.
Brandon Sanderson said he’d eventually take his Mistborn books into a present-day ish setting, and then something futuristic, only with magic, but no idea when those will happen. He’s got *so* many projects, and takes so many detours, but he also writes so fast I’m kind of convinced he’s really a team of clones or something, so probably it’ll actually happen eventually. I really like the idea of advancing the state of technology, because it just doesn’t make sense that you’d stay in this same state for so long.
ew no, cyberpunk is the only genre more creatively bereft than high fantasy
The Villa Straylight Stories.
The book/series is A Song of Ice and Fire, yeah?
This is one of the prequel/side stories, Fire and Blood.
The General’s Chicken at House of Dragons certainly made fire come out of me!
Hopefully it will be more than just The Crown with dragons, but I don’t have high hopes.
It won’t have white winter zombies, right? And will end with one of the blondes going nuts, right? I don’t know how they’ll manage to put any sort of suspense there. A 200-years-later sequel would be more exciting.
“It won’t have white winter zombies, right?”GoT barely had them, so I don’t think it’s going to be a big loss.
Uhm, about half of the story was about or related to them: the wall, the Night Watch, Hodor, “Winter’s coming”, “You know nothing”, the alliances, the best battle (that one in the village behind the wall), and so on. Sure, in the end they turned out to be not-so-important. Sure, they could be replaced with a different (ideally: less silly) external threat – but that sub-plot was a big part of the GoT’s appeal.
“Uhm, about half of the story was about or related to them”LOL, no.
It was until the two idiots in charge went past the books and decided they wanted nothing to do with it anymore.
Half of those storylines involved the wildlings and could’ve had the white walkers lifted right out.
Haven’t read Fire & Blood or any of the other side stories but I’m pretty sure this is mostly about the civil war between Targaryen factions and no white walkers were involved.
I dunno, I’d watch The Crown with dragons.
Does Margaret Thatcher count as a dragon lady?
If I had a wish though, it’d be that Claire Foy play her through the whole thing.
Ditto on Claire Foy. In hindsight, I think it was a big mistake to change the whole cast every couple of seasons. I’d have much rather had the same actors, with adjustments to makeup as they go along.
No, F the makeup. Just have Claire be an ageless Queen Elizabeth that I might worship her radiance.
Id argue she counts since she probably wished she could breath fire on the Irish or labor.
We know how WWII ended, but there are still some pretty good movies about it.
“more than just The Crown with dragons”
As if any of us wouldn’t watch that.
“The Crown with dragons” is what this show should aspire to be.
No, this is roughly a couple generations after Aegon the Conqueror took control of The Seven Kingdoms.
There’s actually not much suspense about the plot. Unlike the GOT series proper, Martin has let out all the plot points for this story and you can easily find them online, though some minor elements might be tweaked.
It’s all politicking and scheming, with the occasional dragon-fire and mass popular revolt in King’s Landing.
This teaser reminded me of something it will definitely have: incest. Not really looking forward to all that incest.
“It won’t have white winter zombies, right?”My question is- Will if have dragons? Wasn’t the FX cost for the dragons so high that GoT tried to avoid it as much as possible? And now they’re making an entire series focused on several clans of dragon riders?And agree 100%- I don’t know how any sort of suspense can be mustered when you already know the end of this story.
It’s been a while, so my memory of the timeline is a little fuzzy, but I think the dragons of this era would have been about the size of the direwolves or a little bigger. Which wouldn’t necessarily cut down on the costs of showing them, but would at least explain why people aren’t regularly riding them. And like the direwolves, would give them an easy excuse to pretend that FireFace and Dragonite are off patrolling the woods, so there’s no need to see them.
No, this was the era of the last big dragons that people flew around and fought each other on. The ‘Dance’ of the title refers to a brutal fight between the character Matt Smith is playing and Aemond on dragonback over a lake called the God’s Eye.
Oh, right. I never read Fire and Blood, so I was just judging off of what I remember from the main continuity, and Dunk and Egg. I think the last ones were already dead before Aemon, so I just assumed two hundred years before they were already diminishing.
It’s weird that this is based on Dance of the Dragons but is called House of Dragons, which is not as good a name.
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I think different people watch for different elements in a show. I’ll be ok with knowing the end result of Targ history if the acting is good and the dialog is clever.
Do you know who will win and be in the throne at the end?
Yeah, Bran.
aka Sir Not Appearing on this ShowAnd not for over 200 years according to the lore.I wonder, do you watch sword and sandals movies or do you say “No point. I already know the Roman Empire will fall in a few centuries later.”
It won’t have white winter zombies, right?
It will not. There was a second series that was being developed alongside this one starring Naomi Watts that would have focused on the winter zombies but HBO killed it after the pilot was filmed.
No one really knows why since it seemed to be the one George R.R. Martin was the most enthusiastic over.
No zombies… but, you know, dragons.
The zombies were the worst part. There’s a reason why HBO canned the spin-off that was about them.
I dunno, man, I dunno. I was so interested in this originally, but by now it’s just hard for me to generate any interest in this universe at all, other than checking out a story about Martin’s version of the books when his notes are released after he dies, having left the books unfinished.
I completely agree. All the air has been let out of the balloon. It’s been a while, and that last season sucked. And it sucked for sucky reasons that decrease interest. Namely, that the creators seemed to have lost interest themselves. I don’t know if they did or if they didn’t but that’s what it looked like to me. So… if they don’t care, why should I and why should I think this new series will hit the heights? If it doesn’t… well, it ain’t GoT and there are plenty of other shows to watch now in 2021. This isn’t 2010 anymore…
Namely, that the creators seemed to have lost interest themselves.But these are different creators? Why should the failures of a completely different group of people make you assume that this series will have the same failings?
I think the OP is listing reasons why they lost interest in the universe entirely rather than this show specifically. And I personally do find it difficult to get into a prequel series when I know the whole saga ends with some dude randomly declaring that kingdoms run on stories and therefore the weird crow kid should be in charge and everybody shrugging and going along with it.
Yeah the show ended on a wet fart and I have no real investment in the prequel when I know that the destination is Crow Boy becomes king because stories and the status quo of Westerosi politics relatively unchanged.
Given that we are just now starting to get spin off series, I dont think the unverse will “end” on Bran being the new king. I imagine they will keep telling stories in this universe for as long as it is financially viable. Fingers crossed someone can make a GoT follow up series that retcons all the unfortunate mistakes of the finale.It deservingly lost a lot of good will at the end, but the first 4.5 seasons are mostly exceptional.
Yeah, I’d actually give this a shot if it was a completely fresh property in a similar vein but for a prequel to work you have to have some curiosity about the world and desire to see backgrounds or unanswered questions explored. I have no further questions about the GoT universe, it’s something that’s over and done in my mind.This could be amazing TV (doubt it will, at best it will probably be “good enough”) but the last season of GoT was so half-assed (actually they’d probably need to add about .3 ass to be a full half-ass) and such a massive letdown in quality from the first few seasons I don’t think I could ever get invested in anything related to the universe ever again.
I agree, but think they could easily change my mind with an incredible first episode. Thats basically what they did with the original GoT
Because the first few seasons were something special and rare. If it isn’t going to recreate that then meh. Nothing against these other two but I have my doubts they can do it given TV.
It’s a totally different crew and creative team, yeah.
It sucked because the TV people were really good at adapting books with plot details, internal monologues, and other resources, but they could not fill in enough from the plot outline they had to end with.
GoT’s would’ve been so much better if shortly after the events of ‘The Long Night’, they ended it Fast Times At Ridgemont High style or Van Halen’s ‘Hot for Teacher’ video with freeze frames of the main surviving cast and a brief description of what they went on to do after.
Someone just posted a John Hughes ending for the last episode with just that sort of thing. I’d link to it below, but we can’t link to comments anymore!
You’re being overly dramatic. DoD is fairly self-contained, has an actual ending, and besides the obvious and banal, doesn’t really tie into the first show at all.
The source material isn’t as good as ASoIaF.
Agreed. But that’s really besides the point.
Exactly! The stories in Fire & Blood are so compelling. HBO can go gold mining from that book for years to come.
We will always have zombie George RR Martin though.
Is Z-Nation worth watching. I kinda just though it was a Walking Dead clone but if it’s more comedic I could enjoy it more
It is way more fun than The Walking Dead, but super uneven. I feel like it hovers for me around a C+/B- scale from episode to episode.
>checking out a story about Martin’s version of the books when his notes are released after he diesThe show was his ending. He met with D&D repeatedly and shared his overall plan for the story and that’s what we got on screen. There were huge gaps they had to fill so of course his version would differ (if he ever writes it) but the characters ended up where GRRM intended.Dude’s an absolute genius; he gets mega paid by HBO for writing half a story then sticks D&D with the blame for the phoned-in ending.
I mean…I can see it being a not terrible ending*. It’s just that D&D lost any interest in getting the characters from A to B organically, so we ended up with what should have been season(s)-long arcs—Daenerys descending into madness and eventually going full Nazi—taking place over, like, an episode.*Well, I’m not sure how King Bran could ever work, but the other beats make sense.
The reason GRRM hasn’t finished the series himself is there’s no convincing way to get the characters from where he left them to where he wants them to be. He’s talked at length about his writing process but essentially he just let the story grow organically, without a plan, into this big glorious mess but now he’s at the point where the story needs to stop growing and move towards a resolution and he’s stuck. He’s not lazy – he keeps pumping out other books – but asoiaf just got away from him. He’ll never finish it. HBO begged D&D to do exactly what you’re describing but they realized it was an impossible task and refused. That’s why the last two seasons are so short – they wanted to get them over with as quickly as possible instead of dragging the trainwreck out.
We basically got the TL:DR version of the series conclusion. I think the producers had their minds on new projects already. Plus didn’t HBO reduce their budget/episode order too?
If the latter seasons had been done with the same room to breathe as the earlier seasons, maybe we would have accepted the ending. But it wasn’t earned on screen.
Nah, HBO wanted *more* episodes. It was all on the showrunners.
I stand corrected.
I really think best thing they could have done is ended the series at some natural stopping point at the end of season 4 or 5 or something and called the whole thing “part one.” Then they’d still have some goodwill and interest in the prequels and in x amount of years they could come back refreshed with new showrunners, better scripts and even a new cast (casting alone would be huge news) and it’d be a huge television event. This thing we got just rushed to the finale to get it over with ASAP and unless it’s entirely remade in 20 years or something I think the property is pretty much over.
I’m slightly more sympathetic to the position they were in. When they were adapting the books, their hit to miss ratio was basically unparalleled, and it resulted in probably the most popular show of all time. Once that ran out, they were just connecting the dots to increasing critical and popular disapproval so of course they lost interest. Their job changed entirely from adapting to creating, and no one can just overnight become a GRRM even if you are intimately familiar with the work. I don’t purely blame GRRM because maybe they could’ve taken a hiatus or something, but it’s basically on him for not finishing. He’s still (hopefully) filthy rich and his story got told in some form so he probably got the best deal of all.
I know the feeling. I loved reading the lore of the series but I’m just shrugging at all this. The only emotion I get now relatee GOT is googling Winds of Winter every couple of months and getting annoyed Martin is making excuses again.
The plot is the Dance of the Dragons, a civil war between a son and a daughter for the Iron Throne after their father the king dies. This is the most interesting bit from the aforementioned Fire and Blood book. Having looked over the casting, I can’t say I’m crazy excited about this adaptation. But of course I’ll watch it.
“most interesting bit” is still a low bar. That story is about a bunch of awful people who never learn any lessons and instead just commit a series of war crimes against each other and die.
Just like a real monarchy!
“That story is about a bunch of awful people who never learn any lessons and instead just commit a series of war crimes against each other and die.”You just described like 80% of contemporary fantasy novels. I long for some basic hero’s journey shit.
I look forward to when the show runners decide to cash out with two really short, rushed, and underwhelming final seasons so they ca do a Star Wars movie…I wonder who’ll get waterboarded this time?
These are completely different show-runners, you do realise that?
“Dreams didn’t make us kings—dragons did!”I prefer, “Headlines don’t sell papes–newsies sell papes!”
Newsies sell papers…ON DRAGONS!
“Guns don’t kill people—I do!”
“… with guns”
I have the sudden urge to play the soundtrack to Newsies.
I’ve never seen this Game of Thrones. Is it one of those things that’s a mix of medieval stuff with steampunk sci-fi trappings, like big brass jetpacks and bulky Alex Raymond laser blasters and things like that?
Nope. It’s all just fantasy
Zero of that
It’s exactly that except replace “sci-fi trappings” with “tits”. You also have your choice of a critically panned fan fiction conclusion or none at all. The canon you choose is up to you!
Ugh, why is Olivia Cooke wasting her time on this?!
She was great in Thoroughbreds and Sound of Metal was excellent, but the stuff she appears in isn’t invariably great. Her most recent film has a 27% RT score (only her 3rd lowest). This might be her highest profile role yet.
A paycheck is a paycheck, but I keep hoping Matt Smith will find a post-Doctor Who gig that actually uses him effectively. I suspect I may be waiting a while.
Matt Smith is the lead in a massively-budgeted spinoff of a series that generated billions in revenue and remains the most-viewed TV series of all time. His character is a rogueish antihero who is neither evil nor good, so I’m sure he’s having fun as an actor. I am not seeing how there is any downside, at all, to him headlining this series, other than that you wanted to comment some sort of hot take based on nothing.
Matt Smith is the lead in a massively-budgeted spinoff of a series that generated billions in revenue and remains the most-viewed TV series of all time. His character is a rogueish antihero who is neither evil nor good, so I’m sure he’s having fun as an actor.But enough about Prince Philip.
So it’s a race between this, the LOTR series and the Wheel of Time series to see which one flops the hardest right?
My money’s on WoT.
Most people heard of Game of Thones.
I am pretty sure the Lord of the Rings is also sorta well known. There were kinda these three movies that were a little popular a few decades ago.
I dunno. The only one I expect to be dull as dirty dishwater is the LotR one.
Depends how sexy Sauron is.
Hopefully the Ice King him up by 10-15%.
I want to say you’re being insolent & rude (as WoT is my first love fantasy-wise), but I fear you’re…not wrong. Which breaks my heart immensely. :-/
WoT I think has the best source material for the first season or two. But those later books dragged quite a bit. To some extent the success of all these shows is how much they can control costs. They all look crazy expensive to produce. If they all need to be GoT size hits to get renewed for a second season, they are all doomed.
I’ve got LotR.
Given the disparities between WoT and LOTR in regards to both name recognition and how much money was spent, I’m not liking those odds.
Mine is, too, but I can also see it’s relative anonymity being a plus.
This will get big premiere numbers, but episodes 2-3 ratings will be the real ratings.
The fact that you didn’t even mention Foundation tells me it’s already won (lost).
I put Foundation in a different category since it’s thinking mans Sci-Fi. Honestly kinda hope it does well so they adapt more books in that style. I’ve been wishing for a Hyperion adaption for years.
I think they’ll be big hits. WoT would be the most likely one to flop since it’s been a while since the WoT books were really popular and it doesn’t have the cultural presence of Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings, but I think it will be a success.
A lot of people who aren’t fantasy fans know about LOTR on the account of the trilogy and The Hobbit movies. Also, a lot of people know GoT on the account of it being at one point the most popular show in the world. WoT isn’t as popular, so it will probably fail the hardest.In any case, I don’t see any of these three series getting past season 2. They are too expensive for the amount of interest they will potentially generate.
IDK, I’m so burned out on GoT at this point (still waiting on that book…), I don’t think I’m alone in this and it’s likely people will just not pay attention now that there’s other options. Meanwhile WoT has a totally different aesthetic, and if you got through the whole series you’re probably invested enough to watch as well.
GOT was the biggest television series of all time in terms of viewership, and overall it brought in literally billions of dollars for HBO/Warners/AT&T. So no House of the Dragon will not “flop” and neither will LOTR. They both have huge budgets, will get loads of marketing dollars thrown at them, and huge amounts of earned media coverage.
as far as viewers go, it’ll be WoT and it won’t even be close. but as far as dollars go, the LOTR show is like the most expensive show ever made or something, and i think it won’t even get close to enough eyeballs to make that back.i could be wrong of course, i thought ipads were a dumb idea way back when
I’m still waiting for the Mad Men sequel series.
Matt Smith continues the trend of getting big-deal roles in nerd series just slightly after everyone moves on.
In the US, at least, I’d say Doctor Who was at its peak popularity during his run (by which I mean, during the time it was available on Netflix).
On the other hand, he turned up in a Terminator film decades past the peak, so it evens out.
This. I really feel like the U.S. caught Whovian fever during Smith’s run with Amy & Rory as companions. That’s played a factor in why Karen Gillian seems to be doing so well stateside (IMO).
Her sitcom didn’t do so well.
That was John Cho’s sitcom and don’t you forget it!
He was kind of cool in the Avengers movie though.
The title would seem to guarantee dragons, but what about tits?
And what about dragon tits?
Well, they’re pretty reptilian as depicted on the show, so probably no tits. Might get some dragon cloaca, though!
Weirdo.
Hey now, don’t kink shame.
Is it just me or does this look significantly cheaper and tackier than GOT? Even the costuming looks worse.
Not just you.
More dragons means a bigger CGI budget, right? Gotta cut costs somewhere.
I swear it’s one of the only shows where I’ve had to hear about their budgetary concerns for something so consistently. Specifically about those dragons which were generally fine. Did they save money by firing a bunch of writers?
HBO choosing the single most expensive (dragons dragons dragons) of the spin-off options is really weird given how they loathed to spend a dime on the dire wolves or more than a token of dragon shots for multiple seasons.
Imagine how much easier it would have been to do Tales of Dunk and Egg.
You could see something?
GoT’s season 1 costume and wig game was significantly weaker than from season 2 onwards, though – I imagine they don’t want to overcommit on the budget there. Dinklage’s awful hair almost distracts from his performance at points.And to be fair – season 8 had some incredibly intricate costumes and it was also abject shit, so if a better wig means a dip in storytelling they can look like shitty LARPers for all I care.
It might just not be finished yet in post-production and re-shoots. It’s just a teaser. It’s interesting they went for the most expensive Game of Thrones story idea, the one with the battles and lots of big dragons.
The costumes in the header picture aren’t so great and HBO provided that apparently.
Those are typical business suits for dragon-oriented royals in pretend times. I see no issue.
So bland. Aristocratic dress is supposed to be showy and expensive-looking.
Matt Smith with that wig… doesn’t look very good.
the nighttime lighting definitely has “latter season GoT” vibes, in that it’s terrible and unwatchable
Is Matt Smith playing a High Elf? Because he looks like a High Elf right there.
Ever seen a High Elf . . .
on WEEEEEED?!
The people on this show have to wear wigs if they want to keep their hair. It’s very hard to get that white hair with bleach not to mention very damaging.
Can’t tell if getting the title wrong every single time is trolling or not.
oooh they changed up the iron throne a little
I’ve seen people online saying that this is going to be Game of Thrones but with good showrunners this time, so it will be much better. Let’s see how that works out…
Thing is, GoT had good showrunners. Or at least competent showrunners…until they weren’t.
They were never competent. Competent writers on a TV show put together a writer’s room.
The first season has completely invented scenes that are still quite good. And Benioff’s “The 25th Hour” was good. I think they just got tired of the show and wanted to be done with it.
They had some good writers on staff who likely penned the scenes you’re describing. There are very few completely invented/original scenes confirmed to be written by Benioff and Weiss that are actually good. They are not great at writing dialogue, for example.
yeah, that’s my thought. They dropped the ball at the end, but they were good enough to create one of the biggest TV shows of all time, and set a new standard for what we might expect from a ‘fantasy’ TV show. The showrunners for this new show are going to struggle to measure up, even if they may learn lessons from the way GoT lost steam (after many years of greatness).
Benioff and Weiss benefited from the material they were adapting. During the first four seasons the best scenes and dialogue were all adapted fairly directly from the source text. The stuff that people don’t like, later in the series, was all their original material that they literally had to create and write (based very loosely on Martin’s outline of significant story details). This is most noticeable in much of the stiff and odd dialogue in the laters seasons; they were trying to emulate George RR Martin’s excellent dialogue from his novels, so they would have the usually verbose and clever Tyrion spout a bunch of nonsense that sounded vaguely Tyrion-esque to them, and they’d add a dick joke or whatever.
Nah. Running out of pre-written material exposed them as hacks. There’s a reason why all of their high profile prospects dried up when GoT ended.
Dried up? There was a huge bidding war for them:https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49276329
“Was” is the operative word. This article is outdated. This Netflix deal is the only thing they have left because everything they had lined up (at the time this article was written) went away. You will not find companies having bidding wars over them anymore.
“Went away”? Netflix won the bidding war. D&D signed with them. They can’t make a deal with somebody else unless that somebody else pays Netflix enough to let them out of their contract. There wouldn’t be another bidding war until they reach the end of that contract.
Eh…sure. Fine.
the real question is- will I be less embarassed by having light blonde hair after this comes out…or more?
Sheesh, Matt Smith is — as my late grandmother would say — a big-faced man.
I’ve always thought of him as looking like the recipient of an extremely successful facial transplant.
There’s a throwaway line in Doctor Who revealing that he inspired the Easter Island statues.
Seems Weiss & Beinoff have been completely banished to beyond the wall of obscurity. They aren’t even producers on this series.Probably busy on a “but what if incest wasn’t illegal?” show or something, anyway.
The premise would have to be stupider, “What if marrying someone who WASN’T more related to you than a first cousin was the thing that was illegal?”The teaser:POLICEMAN: Sylvester Olivier de Charles, you are under arrest for the crime of attempting to marry your second cousin, Margaret!FATHER: Dammit boy! Why couldn’t you just have married your sister, like a decent person…
Their deal isn’t with HBO anymore. I think they’re adapting “The Three Body Problem” for Netflix.
A shame it’s such a good book they’re planning on ruining.
What if we did an alt history Confederate show thankfully died in the crib at least.
It came way too close to being a reality.
I’d love to see their notes on that and probably someone at HBO just stamped “BAD IDEA!” across the pitch.
This show’s gonna have much more out-in-the-open incest though
They signed a multi million dollar deal with Netflix and are not with HBO any more. Why will they be producers on this or be banished? They just produced a well received comedy drama called ‘The Chair’ on Netflix. The personal hatred some of you feel for them for botching a season of goddamn television is quite something.
Eh I hate to be “that guy” but its “House of the Dragon” not “House of Dragons” like some lowbrow gutter snipe
When is Da’Quan Targaryen showin’ up?
it will be set 200 years before the events of the book A Song Of Fire And IceA Song of Ice and Fire*
Dr. Iceandfirestein’s Monster
Nope. If this MFer would stop writing sequels and companion books, he might actually finish the one thing people actually care about.I bailed on GoT early. Season 5 was my last. The last thing one my mind was “well, what about the history of the Targaryens?”They are trying to turn this into the Star Wars universe but most of us didn’t grow up on these books. These UNFINISHED books. We just don’t care enough. No way this is good or successful.
Obligatory editorial note:
it will be set 200 years before the events of the book A Song Of Fire And Ice (which Games Of Thrones was based on).The book SERIES: A Song of ICE AND FIRE. The first novel in the series is called Game of Thrones. Seriously, two seconds on Google go a long way.
When there was rumors just starting out about GoT spinoffs, I was excited. But the finale to GoT completely killed all excitement from about any related materials. I watched this trailer and there’s a tiny twinge of wanting to like this but that’s about it. Looking like the only way I’m gonna watch and invest in this is if the season long reviews are good and I’ll catch up after the fact
Having read the source material, Matt Smith seems like a poor fit for Daemon Targaeryan, who was the closest thing to an universe rock-star type figure in Westeros history, a badass who conquered islands and created his own kingdom out of nothing, then gave it up for no other reason than he was bored, slept with half the royal court, and set off a Civil War that basically set his family’s dynasty on the road to ruin. Daemon Targaeryan’s charisma was off the charts. You basically need a bigger than life star to effectively play him.
I don’t know what about standing on a cold beach frowning at a woman who is also frowning doesn’t just ooze charisma for you.
I wasn’t super hyped when they announced he had been cast as Daemon, but I’m reserving judgment. It may turn out well. I’m sure he’s pleased that he has such interesting material to work with, in any case.
Oh my no.
i really wish we could have a show about a powerful woman without her doing hollywood-girlboss-powerful-woman-face directly at the camera. GoT acknowledged (hamfistedly, but still) that the divine right of kings is deranged and evil, but because dany did the whole “how dare you question my authority because i am a woman, hear me roar, et cetera” schtick (the only way women are allowed to be powerful on tv) everyone treated her like a yass kween instead of another patently evil and narcissistic grasper
Sure, why not? I mooch HBO, so no hair off my butt.
Game of Thrones would’ve wrapped up so much better if it ended like this:
So, what hackjob method will they use to get some of the original cast to appear in the show? I assume the easiest is to have Bran creeping on everyone from the sidelines, but I’m open to other, even stupider, possibilities.