The second season of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon wrapped up last month, ending on a series of cliffhangers. Is Rhaenyra going to invade King's Landing? When will the Triarchy fleet reach Westeros? What will become of King Aegon Targaryen, who fled King's Landing rather than wait to get killed by his ambitious brother Aemond? Unfortunately, we won't know the answers to those questions for quite a while.
How long, exactly? Things are starting to come into focus. Over this past weekend, Tom Glynn-Carney, who plays King Aegon, appeared on a panel at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, Oregon. The proprietor of the Tumblr blog @hotdaemondtargaryen posted some of his responses. And I know a Tumblr blog isn't an ironclad source, but @hotdaemondtargaryen posted photos of Glynn-Carney on the panel on the blog, so I think it's at least worth exploring.
Anyway, according to the blog, Glynn-Carney says that House of the Dragon season 3 will start shooting in March of 2025, which sounds about right to me. (@jodanverss on Twitter also reported what Glynn-Carney said.) We've heard that preproduction will start in earnest around October, and showrunner Ryan Condal has said that he expects filming to begin in "earlyish 2025." It all lines up.
Unfortunately, this means that we probably won't be watching new episodes of House of the Dragon season 3 until 2026. We already knew that, but it's still unfortunate. HBO will try to fill the Westeros-sized hole in our hearts by airing a new Game of Thrones prequel series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, in 2025.
I'm looking forward to that show and I'm glad HBO is taking measures to make sure people don't completely forget about the Game of Thrones universe during the two-year gap between new seasons of House of the Dragon. Still, the long waits between new seasons of big shows like The Rings of Power and The Wheel of Time can't help but wear on fans. I think it could be a particular problem for House of the Dragon, since the second season ended without the kind of climax a lot of fans were expecting. But we'll see what the future holds.
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