The Future of ‘House of the Dragon’ Lies in Its Bastards
If you’ve caught up with the latest episode of HBO’s House of the Dragon—titled “The Red Sowing”—then you know Sunday’s finale is sure to be explosive.
The episode sowed the seeds of more war to come, while also confirming the two dragonseeds in Hugh Hammer (Kieran Bew) and Ulf the White (Tom Bennett) who will aid Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) in her cause. But in the larger picture of HBO’s future in Westeros, “The Red Sowing” planted the seeds for another project that is inevitably on the horizon: the Blackfyre Rebellion.
With the Dance of the Dragons being covered in House of the Dragon, and the Dunk and Egg novellas being adapted with the upcoming A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series, there are three other major events within George R.R. Martin’s fantasy epic waiting to be greenlit for adaptations. The first is Robert’s Rebellion, the second is Aegon’s Conquest, and the third is the First Blackfyre Rebellion—an event which takes place about 60 years after the period of time House of the Dragon is currently covering.