House of the Dragon director addresses season 2 getting cut from 10 episodes to 8
The second season of House of the Dragon ended last year, and we were far from the only fans who noticed that it kind of...didn't really have an ending? Instead of closing with a big climactic event drawn from the pages of Fire & Blood, the season 2 finale closed with a montage of armies and navies on the move, presaging clashes that were about to happen. It was strange.
It ends up that this wasn't the original plan. At first, the producers were going to have 10 episodes, but at some point HBO or Warner Bros. Discovery came in and cut that number down to eight, leaving the season feeling kinda awkward and unfinished. Speaking to Gold Derby, director Alan Taylor shed more light on what happened:
It was a funny kerfuffle at the beginning, because we were going to originally do 10 episodes, and we cut it down to eight episodes.
It ends up that this wasn't the original plan. At first, the producers were going to have 10 episodes, but at some point HBO or Warner Bros. Discovery came in and cut that number down to eight, leaving the season feeling kinda awkward and unfinished. Speaking to Gold Derby, director Alan Taylor shed more light on what happened:
It was a funny kerfuffle at the beginning, because we were going to originally do 10 episodes, and we cut it down to eight episodes.
- 5/5/2025
- by Dan Selcke
- Winter Is Coming
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