House Of The Dragon will end with season four, its showrunner has confirmed.
During a press conference today (August 5) that discussed the season finale of the hit HBO Game Of Thrones spin-off show, showrunner and co-creator Ryan Condal revealed that the show will have two more seasons, and will conclude with season four.
Author George R. R. Martin, who is co-creator of House Of The Dragon and has authored the book on which the show is based, had previously written on his personal blog that the show would take four seasons. However, up until now, HBO hasn’t discussed how many seasons the show would entail.
As per Variety, Condal said the third season is now being written with plans to go into production early in 2025. When asked about how long the new season would be, he explained: “I haven’t had discussions with HBO about it. I would just anticipate the cadence of the show, from a dramatic storytelling perspective, will continue to be the same from Season 2 on.”
In the conference, Condal also addressed the season two finale which didn’t include the ‘Battle Of The Gullet’, a highly anticipated plot point from Fire & Blood.
It comes after some fans expressed their disappointment at the lack of narrative progress in the finale of the show’s second season.
The eighth and final episode aired on HBO last night (August 4), although numerous scenes from it did leak online several days earlier.
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Titled ‘The Queen Who Ever Was’, it saw Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) finally take back her throne, with her husband Daemon (Matt Smith) at her side.
After the episode, fans of the show took to social media to share their thoughts, with some stating that they felt underwhelmed by the climax and its lack of narrative closure.
Condal said the highly anticipated plot point would be on the way. He explained: “We were trying to give the Gullet, which is arguably the most anticipated — well, I would say maybe the second-most-anticipated — action event of Fire & Blood, trying to give it the time and the space that it deserves…Obviously, as anybody that’s seen the finale, we’re building to that event. That event will happen very shortly in terms of the storytelling of House Of The Dragon.”
He added: “Based on what we know now, it should be the biggest thing to date that we’ve pulled off. And we just wanted to have the time, the space to do that at a level that is going to excite and satisfy the fans and in the way it’s deserved.”
“…I know everybody wants this to come out every summer,” Condal continued. “It’s just that the show is so complex that we’re really making multiple feature films every season. So I apologise for the wait, but I will just say if Rook’s Rest and the Red Sowing are any indication, we’re gonna pull off a hell of a win with the Battle the Gullet in the future.”
Before season three arrives, however, another Game Of Thrones spin-off, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, is expected to premiere in “early 2025”, with production rumoured to have already started.
Another prequel 10,000 Ships is also in development. The show would be set 1,000 years before the events of Game Of Thrones and would follow the events of warrior princess Nymeria. It has been through several different writers, with the most up to date info suggesting that Pulitzer Prize–winner Eboni Booth is writing the pilot.