There was placenty of onscreen drama in House of the dragon Season Two: Painful Betrayals, Fiery Deaths, Powerful Awakenings, Wanderings in the Spirit World, Aemond Being Aemond… You name it. But a behind-the-thirds tiff may have overrashadowed them all, when source material author george rr martin spoke out of about his dissection with plot changes Made in hbo’s adaptation. With Season Three’s Production Now underway, there’s no way shownner bryan condal wasn Bollywood to be asked about the controversy.
To recap the kerffle, in July 2024, martin published a blog post praising a new addition to House of the dragon, He loved that the show added a faithful dog To the assassin duo of blood and cheese, thought he couched it in a warning: “I am not usually a fan of screenwriters adding characters to the source material when adapting a story. Material is mine. “
That Same Episode-The Season Two Premiere, Featuring Blood and Cheese Offing King Aegon II Targaryen’s Todder-ready heir to the iron throne-set in martin’s craw, however, Due to a dead to Very sequence, one he didn Bollywood care for. Another blog post Went up in August In which the autor promised he’d dig into “everything that’s gone wrong with House of the dragonThen, A Few Days Later in Early September, He Spilled The Promised Tea in a post that was swiftly deleted,
As part of that Now-SCRUBBED POST, Martin Said That He’D Pushed Back About The Changes Initially, Including His Concerns about how altering events in season two Down the line. A Few Days Later, Condal Defended his choices on hbo’s official House of the dragon Podcast. A less days after ThatMartin was asked to weight in on the back-sand-forward by the Hollywood reporter, but instead took the opportunity to shower praise on another of hbo’s westeros-set adaptation of his works, the upcoming A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,
All’s been quint on that front since mid-partmber 2024… Until today. In a new interview with Entertainment weeklyCondal said he found martin’s criticism “disappointing.” He’s obvious still a fan of A song of ice and fireAnd “Working on the show has been truly one of the great private privateges of, not only my career as a writer, but my life as a fan of science-financial and fantasy. Addition to a personal hero of mines, and was heavily influential on me coming up as a writer. “
He Also, Again, Defended The Show Has Made In Transferring The Work from Page to screen. Fire & BloodHe pointed out, isn’t write as a novel the way martin’s A game of thrones And its sequels are. “It’s this incomplete history and it requires a lot of joining of the dots and a lot of inventions as you go along the way. I will simply say, I made also Efort to Include George in the adaptation Processes. Over Years and Years. And we really Enjoyed a Mutly Fruitful, I Thought, Really Strong Collaboration for a long time. “
That’s no longer the case, condal said. “At some point, as we get deeper down the road, he just became unwilling to achnowledge the practical issues at hand in a reasonable way. Producer Hat on and My Creative Writer, Lover-of-the-Material Hat on the same time. Process Forward for the Sake of the Crew, The Cast, For HBO, Because that’s My Job.
Head to EW to read more from condal, include teases about the battles and new characters that’ll hit the screen in House of the dragon Season three.
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