‘Home of the Dragon’ Nearly Had ‘Extra Time Jumps and Re-Castings’

“Home of the Dragon” stored viewers on their toes all through its first season by always leaping via time between episodes, most dramatically in Episode 6 when the present jumped 10 years and recast the roles of Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock to Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent (Emily Carey to Olivia Cooke). Had co-creator and creator George R.R. Martin gotten his method, the present would’ve featured much more time jumps and re-castings as a result of he would’ve began the sequence 40 years sooner than the place the pilot started.

“One of many massive points with all of those writers was the place to start,” Martin mentioned in a video interview with Penguin Random Home. “[‘House of the Dragon’ showrunner Ryan Condal] started in [Episode 1] with the Nice Council the place the Lords vote that Jaehaerys’s inheritor — he’s simply misplaced his son Baelon, who has died of appendicitis — so who’s his inheritor now? And the lords vote to decide on Viserys over Rhaenys.”

Martin mentioned “that [beginning] was not handed down by some muse from historic Greece. We — myself and the opposite writers — had loads of spirited discussions about the place to start that story.”

One of many sequence’ writers needed to start out “Home of the Dragon” with the dying of Viserys’ first spouse Aemma (which is proven in graphic element in a while within the pilot episode), whereas one other floated the concept of beginning with Viserys’ dying (which doesn’t happen within the sequence till the eighth episode). Martin’s “favourite” concept was to start out “a lot earlier.”

“I’d have started it like 40 years earlier with the episode I’d have referred to as ‘The Inheritor and the Spare,’ wherein Jaehaerys’s two sons, Aemon and Baelon, are alive,” Martin mentioned. “And we see the friendship, but in addition the rivalry, between the 2 sides of the good home. You realize, Aemon dies unintentionally when a Myrish crossbowman shoots him accidentally on Tarth after which Jaehaerys has to resolve who turns into the brand new inheritor. Is it the daughter of the older son who’s simply died or is it the second son, who has sons of his personal and is a person and he or she’s only a teenage woman?”

Martin added, “You’d have had 40 extra years and you’ll have had much more time jumps and you’ll have much more re-castings and, yeah, I used to be the one one who was actually enthused about that.”

“Home of the Dragon” is renewed for a second season, however showrunner Condal has already promised to followers that there shall be no extra vital time jumps or re-castings. The ten-episode first season of “Home of the Dragon” is now streaming on HBO Max.