the house of the dragon has been HBO's most anticipated premiere since the last season of Game of Thrones. And fans of the universe created by George RR Martin are left wanting more. The pilot episode of House of the Dragon debuted with 10 million viewers in US hours, and 25 million viewers on the online platform that same week; a record in HBO history. The deployment of the series is being a real success, so many may now be asking the question: Will there be or will there not be a second season of the series?
Is House of the Dragon written by George RR Martin?
Unlike last seasons of Game of Thrones that HBO recorded, the house of the dragon he does have books to draw on. The saga of Song of ice and fire It has five books published, so the writers of the series could only rely on the original text until the end of the fifth season. There it began to be noticed how the series was making water by not having a literary plot on which to base itself.
the house of the dragon is based on the book fire and blood, by George RR Martin, published on October 20, 2018. This novel is about a full story of the Targaryen house. The writer had originally planned to publish this book after finishing the saga of Song of ice and fire, but with the delay of the last two volumes (Winter Winds y spring dream, yet to be published) decided to release it. Specifically, the events that happen in the HBO series appear in the second half of the volume.
As our dear George RR Martin often does, he's gotten so wrapped up writing that he has material for a second volume on the Targaryens. This makes fire and blood be the first volume of a scholastic treatise of the entire targaryen dynasty in Westeros and that HBO has enough material to do if it wants more seasons about the kings and queens that succeed—or precede—Viserys I Targaryen. The writer himself confirmed this information recently on his official blog, where he has ventured to calculate how many installments the series will have (or rather need) in total: four seasons in order to do justice to the whole story.
With regards to official confirmation of a second season, which is what concerns us now, yes, house of dragon will have a Season 2. And it is that the reception was such that there were barely two days left for the second episode of the series to premiere when the renewal was confirmed.
When does the second season of The House of the Dragon premiere?
Still has not been announced an exact date for the premiere of the second season. The last two episodes of this first block have yet to be released, which will end on October 23, 2022. Being very optimistic, we could expect the next season at the end of 2023; however, most likely we will have to arm ourselves with patience until 2024.
After all, filming hasn't started yet, and the first season took 10 months of filming. This is without counting all the editing and post-production work that a fantastic series like this needs. As much as they record the scenes in dreamy settings, the dragons still have to get involved through CGI.
Unless HBO invests a lot of money in a Jurassic Park with dragons that speeds up the filming process, we are very afraid that we will have to wait a bit before the premiere date of the second season of the movie is finally announced. the house of the dragon.