HBO Makes It Official: House of the Dragon Ends With Season 4

Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon volition extremity with Season 4, HBO has confirmed.

In November, HBO confirmed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2 and House of the Dragon Season 4 arsenic portion of a Marvel-style roadmap update for Game of Thrones TV series.

In that announcement, HBO extended each bid tally done 2028. Both bid volition aerial connected HBO and beryllium disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was renewed for a 2nd play up of the Season 1 debut earlier this month, with Season 2 owed retired successful 2027. House of the Dragon Season 3, meanwhile, debuts successful summertime 2026, with Season 4 acceptable for 2028.

Now, successful an interrogation with Deadline, Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO of HBO and HBO Max Content, confirmed that Season 4 of House of the Dragon volition beryllium its last season.

“Yes, that is the idea,” Bloys said. “The thought has ever been to travel the past of the Targaryens. If you cognize the books, you cognize however the Targaryens extremity up. So determination is simply a earthy extremity to this peculiar past of that House of the Targaryens.”

While Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin has expressed his enthusiasm for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, he’s been captious of House of the Dragon. Indeed, Martin precocious discussed his breached narration with House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal, which the writer candidly described arsenic "worse than rocky" and "abysmal."

While Martin's displeasure with House of the Dragon's ongoing communicative improvement is thing new, a illustration portion published by The Hollywood Reporter revealed eye-opening caller item from Martin connected the breakdown of his narration with Condal — and the grade to which HBO executives had to negociate the brace down the scenes of the show's production.

Martin's unhappiness with Condal appears to person reached its zenith during a contentious Zoom telephone wherever the showrunner laid retired his imaginativeness for House of the Dragon's 3rd season. Martin said helium responded to Condal's program with galore objections, and yet stated: "This is not my communicative immoderate longer."

In March past year, Condal called Martin’s criticisms of House of the Dragon Season 2 “disappointing.”

Deadline asked Bloys if HBO planned a “supersized” last play of House of the Dragon, but helium said a determination had yet been made connected its occurrence count. “Ryan is working, similar immoderate amusement similar this; helium is finishing station connected Season 3 and moving with the writers connected what Season 4 looks like,” Bloys told Deadline. “I don’t cognize wherever he’s landed connected the occurrence number yet.”

With House of the Dragon coming to an extremity successful 2028, thoughts crook to what’s adjacent for HBO and Game of Thrones. To that end, a projected Game of Thrones sequel bid starring Arya Stark is reportedly successful the aboriginal stages of development, seemingly to regenerate erstwhile plans to make a spinoff based astir Jon Snow. We besides person connection that animation icon Genndy Tartakovsky (Primal, Samurai Jack, Hotel Transylvania) is attached to the long-gestating Game of Thrones animated spinoff bid 9 Voyages, which volition travel the adventures of Lord Corlys Velaryon, aka The Sea Snake. The quality is played successful House of the Dragon by histrion Steve Toussaint.

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