

As shared by Entertainment Weekly, that includes the infamous Dance of the Dragons, or the Targaryen civil war that tore Westeros apart. Set 200 years before the events of GoT, House of the Dragon chronicles the origins and end of the reign of House Targaryen, according to THR. Martin start to light the embers on their latest collaboration, here's everything we know about House of the Dragon so far. If you're familiar with the the books or seen the original, you should be able to recognize based on the title alone that the upcoming show is about the Targaryen family, the clan from which Daenerys and Jon Snow are descendants.

House of the Dragon, which was given a full-season order back in fall 2019, is the first of the spinoffs coming down the pipeline. One of them will be here fairly soon, actually. While one show that was supposed to take place thousands of years before the events of GoT and star Naomi Watts got the go-ahead to film a pilot before the network ultimately decided to pull the plug on it, other optioned shows are still in the works. Well before Game of Thrones wrapped up its eight-year run with that controversial final season in spring of 2019, there was talk dating back to 2017 that HBO was planning on releasing not one, but several spinoff and prequel series set in A Song of Fire and Ice author George R.
