'House of the Dragon' co-creator Ryan Condal tells EW how he's involved in the Dunk and Egg spinoff series: 'I provide some Obi-Wan Kenobi advice from afar.'
Before his fiery "Game of Thrones" prequel, Ryan Condal pitched a Dunk and Egg show. Now he's consulting Obi-Wan Kenobi-style on the one HBO greenlit.Nick is an entertainment journalist based in New York, NY. If you like pugs and the occasional blurry photo of an action figure, follow him on Twitter @NickARomano., which is based on Martin's novellas about Ser Duncan the Tall and his diminutive companion nicknamed Egg.
"When HBO was looking to do spinoffs for the original series — this is now like eight years ago — word got around that I was a bit of a fan,"The reason, he explains, surrounds his reading of the material as "a lone wolf and cub story told in this vast canvas."in Westeros, beginning when a squire named Dunk takes the possessions of the newly deceased nomadic hedge knight that he serves, declares himself Ser Duncan the Tall, and tries to enter a tournament.
"Those always stuck with me as such a wonderful counterpoint to George's world, which was really about the upper crust of the 1 percent: the kings and the high lords and ladies who essentially waged the game of thrones at the expense of the small folk," Condal explains. "Well,is about the small folk who suffer at the hands of the game of thrones as it's played by the nobles.
That's essentially what Condal pitched to HBO at the time, but the network "wanted to do something much bigger and crazier and more expensive," he says. That, of course, led Condal to serving as showrunner and co-creator of, the explosive saga about the civil war that tore down the Targaryen empire in a blaze of dragonfire. season 1 scribes taken the reins. That was Parker.
"Because I know Ira and because of my deep passion for the series, I said I would help out," he says. "So that's what I'm doing. I provide some Obi-Wan Kenobi advice from afar. I appear to Ira as a ghost every once in a while and counsel him. And that's really it. That'sshow. He's doing a wonderful job with it. They have fantastic scripts that I'm very excited about, and it's all coming along.
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