“House of the Dragon” will have the same formula as “Game of Thrones” on HBO Max

It’s only been three years since the ‘Game of Thrones’ story ended, after becoming the first phenomenon on HBO and most likely the entire stream, but the franchise’s success is about to expand with the premiere of ‘House of the Dragon’ , the prequel arriving this August on the digital service.

‘House of the Dragon’, which was announced as the prequel to ‘Game of Thrones’, will repeat the formula that HBO had with the first production, so not only could it match it in terms of numbers, but it could definitely become the next hit of the HBO Max streaming platform and even surpass the first.

It took only three years for the dragons, family betrayals and the iron throne to return to television: HBO premieres “House of the Dragon” this week on August 21stthe prequel to the most successful series in history and the first title in what should be a long-running franchise arrives on the small screen.

Eager to squeeze the TV phenomenon after ‘Game of Thrones’ farewell in 2019, the channel found in “Fire and Blood” a short novel with which writer George RR Martin completed his fantasy universe, the perfect storyline for become the first in the list of derivative fictions he promised to publish.

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It is not a novel. It’s a fake history book. And it’s not written in a normal narrative structure, so it was very interesting to adapt it to the script format, “Ryan Condal, creator of the series with Miguel Sapochnik, explained to Efe during a presentation.

Unlike the original fiction, “House Of The Dragon” does not tell the fierce struggle of ambitious kingdoms and families for power, its plot tells the dissolution of a single dynasty, the Targaryensfor the election of the new heir to the throne.

“The House of the Dragon” takes place 200 years before “A Song of Ice and Fire”

Set 200 years before the events narrated in “A Song of Ice and Fire” (the collection of novels that inspired the original series), the new story stars Viserys (Paddy Considine), a king aware of his physical decline and desperate for his successor.

In that quest, eyes will turn to Prince Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), the king’s violent and rebellious younger brother, and Princess Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy and Milly Alcock), whose possible accession to the Iron Throne is seen. . who are suspicious of the idea of ​​a woman in power.

The same men who controlled the power system will not give up so easily before the end of the patriarchy, and that’s the story. To whom belongs the throne: to the person who decides the king, to the firstborn according to the law or to the one preferred by the people, ”Condal advanced.

The “Game of Thrones” prequel will retain the original elements

The creators of the series tried to completely forget “Game of Thrones”. None of its characters, dragons or settings (beyond the mythical Game of Thrones) are repeated in the sequel, but it will be familiar to many fans of the saga.

The dynasty of the protagonists, the Targaryens, are the ancestors of Daenerys, the enigmatic “Khaleesi” or the “Mother of Dragons” from the first series. She shares with them her recognizable physical attributes of her – blonde hair and a deep gaze, clear eyes – as well as an absolute mastery of dragon flight.

And in “House of the Dragon”, as in the whole world created by RR Martin, who controls the dragons, dominates the world. In the first season of the series, up to 17 creatures will appear.

It has everything to do with dragons, ”Sapochnik acknowledged, the other hand writing the script.

In addition to the dragons, internal fights and family tragedies of the “mother” series, the incredible settings of Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom are also maintained, modified by the computer to set the fantasy world thanks to an impressive technical workmanship for which HBO paid between $ 150 and $ 200 million for its first 10 episodes.

There won’t be, however, the same dose of sex and violence that marked the first seasons of “Game of Thrones”.

“The sex was there to get people’s attention and get them to watch the show. This is the truth and we’re very lucky that we don’t have to resort to sex to sell the show. It doesn’t mean it’s not there, but we’re free to determine. mandates that the original fiction had to assume, “justified Sapochnik. (With information from EFE).