EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming second season of HBO home of the dragon will consist of eight episodes, two fewer than the Critics Choice-winning season 1 game of thrones Forerunner It’s part of a long-term plan for the show, with HBO considering greenlitting it for a third season, I’m told.
The news comes as production on the second season is set to begin in the UK for a summer 2024 premiere.
As is relatively common, HBO did not disclose the episode order in its Season 2 renewal announcement last summer of script rewrites. Given the change in leadership at HBO’s parent company, some have pointed to the focus of Warner Bros. leadership. Discovery about cost savings. A spokesperson for HBO, who confirmed to Deadline that Season 2 will have 8 episodes, emphasized that the number of episodes is determined by the story.
It has been reported home of the dragon The creative team envisioned the series for three or four seasons. I hear that executive producer and showrunner Ryan Condal, who works with writer/executive producer George RR Martin, stepped down when season two was put together to give an overall look at the series following Martin’s. fire and bloodand discover the full flow of the story, including the breakdown of stories from season to season and which battles should be included and when.
As part of this, I’m hearing that season 3 is planned and may get the green light, with HBO seriously considering moving forward with scripts, casting and a production schedule as the network also tries to think long-term rather than seasonally. – Season.
With some of the storylines originally planned for Season 2, including a major battle, spilling over into Season 3, I’m hearing that it’s now more likely that the show will last for four seasons, but that’s uncertain as Condal and Martin continues to go back and forth on the number of seasons (three or four) that would be optimal to tell the full story, sources said.
In an October blog post, Martin talked about liking HBO shows The sopranos used to have 13 episodes per season, which changed to 10 by then game of thrones came over The Emmy-winning fantasy chaser spawned six 10-episode seasons, leading to the 13-episode final chapter being split in two. That’s more than Amazon’s eight-episode seasons LOTR: The Rings of Power, he remarked.
“I’m thrilled that we still have 10 hours each season to tell our story,” Martin said home of the dragon. “I hope it stays that way. It will take four full seasons of 10 episodes each to do Dragon Dance justice from start to finish.”
home of the dragon takes place 172 years before the events game of thrones and tells the story of House Targaryen.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s new regime picked up the series last summer and backed the $200 million production with the biggest marketing campaign in HBO’s history, which the company estimates reached 130 million people in the United States.
This led to huge ratings for the show’s August 21 premiere, which was followed a few days later by a second season renewal.
home of the dragon With Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, Sonoya Mizuno and Rhys Ifans.
Condal and Martin are executive producers along with Sara Hess, Vince Gerardis, season 2 director Alan Taylor and season 1 director/co-showrunner Miguel Sapochnik.
Source: Deadline
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