Hit HBO sequence “Home of the Dragon” has already slayed scores on streaming platform Max, and simply after Season 3 was introduced, showrunner Ryan Condal teased what he’s been toying with for a 3rd installment of the present.
Condal informed Video games Radar that the “largest problem” is discovering recent storylines that also preserve the “narrative explosions” that the franchise has turn out to be well-known for. Assume: That devastating birthing sequence within the “Home of the Dragon” pilot, and even the Pink Marriage ceremony in its predecessor sequence “Recreation of Thrones.”
“There’s a rhythm to all this, these sorts of tales as you inform them,” Condal mentioned. “And we’re looking for satisfying arcs inside the season construction. So, hopefully you begin with a bang, and you then construct to a different bang by way of the sequence, however you’re actually making an attempt to arc out the characters, so that every season is a unique expertise for all of them. And you then go away them off all in a spot the place you possibly can decide up with them subsequent yr, after which take them in a brand new course, since you don’t need to find yourself in that place the place you’re doing the identical factor time and again.”
Condal continued, “So, that’s truly the largest problem, after which the narrative flare ups or the narrative explosions that come together with which might be half and parcel with telling these tales.”
Condal lately informed IndieWire that “Home of the Dragon” is an “enormously sophisticated present to make,” particularly when it got here to the narrative world-building required.
“The primary season of any present, definitely one in a world as sophisticated as this, you must cleverly disguise exposition on a regular basis and conceal the greens within the applesauce or no matter the fitting metaphor is,” Condal mentioned. “However now that everyone has skilled this historical past as we’ve laid it out in Season 1, you possibly can expertise occasions rather more within the actuality and the true time of it, with much less backfilling as to why we’re right here. That creates a story [where] the momentum is shifting, the bottom is shifting beneath your toes, you’re placing one foot in entrance of the opposite, the ball is rolling down the hill in a manner that perhaps it wasn’t in Season 1.”
He added, “I believe the stress in making a Season 2 is all the time much less so than Season 1 — Season 1’s are so fraught as a result of you’ve got a completely new factor, it’s all uncooked clay, and also you’re making an attempt to form it into one thing. Season 2 you’re coming in with extra stuff to work with. You understand your solid, you’ve got units constructed… the season obtained loads larger so it was no simpler to make, however we had this confidence going into it that we had gained over an viewers, and now we wanted to outdo ourselves and attempt to do it once more.”