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HBO and HBO Max contented CEO Casey Bloys confirmed "a bully guess" for erstwhile Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon volition instrumentality for play two.
"Game of Thrones": How the Franchise Will Continue to Live On
Summer 2024 is coming.
Unfortunately, that's the earliest you tin expect to spot House of the Dragon's 2nd season, according to HBO executive Casey Bloys. The HBO Max contented CEO conscionable confirmed to Variety successful an interrogation published Feb. 22 that sometime successful 2024 is "a bully guess" for the Game of Thrones prequel's play 2 premiere.
"My doctrine is simply a bully publication is No. 1 priority," Bloys remarked. "I americium not doing it based connected wanting to person 1 a year, 2 a year. I privation to bash it based connected the scripts that we're excited about."
Production connected play 2 is presently underway with filming scheduled to statesman March 6. And contempt respective different GoT spinoffs antecedently being announced astatine the network—including from writer George R.R. Martin—don't number connected seeing them anytime soon.
"Remember, to get House of the Dragon pursuing up from Game of Thrones, we developed a batch of shows, changeable a pilot, developed a clump of scripts and we got House of the Dragon," Bloys explained. "To bash that again is going to instrumentality the aforesaid magnitude of effort. You person to make a batch of things, effort things. You ne'er cognize what's going to work."
He continued, "It takes a portion to get 1 that hits the mark. I cognize George feels the aforesaid way. You privation to bash 1 that everybody's truly arrogant of and excited about."
Martin acknowledged HBO shelving some of the concepts based connected his A Song of Ice and Fire beingness amid restructuring astatine the network's genitor institution successful December, noting, "All the changes astatine HBO Max person impacted us, certainly."
Among those projects were a Jon Snow-centric amusement featuring Kit Harington, a cartoon called The Golden Empire and bid based connected his Tales of Dunk and Egg, Ten Thousand Ships and The Sea Snake novellas.
"Some of those are moving faster than others, arsenic is ever the lawsuit with development," Martin noted successful a blog post. "None person been greenlit yet, though we are hoping—maybe soon. A mates person been shelved, but I would not hold that they are dead. You tin instrumentality thing disconnected the support arsenic easy arsenic you tin enactment it connected the shelf."
House of the Dragon became HBO's most-watched premiere ever erstwhile it debuted successful August. It stars Matt Smith, Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Emma D'Arcy, Fabien Frankel, Steve Toussaint and Eve Best, to sanction a few.
But portion you await play two, you tin drawback up connected each things Game of Thrones connected HBO Max.
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