“House of the Dragon” showrunner Ryan Condal addressed his creative tension with “Game of Thrones” author and creator George R.R. Martin in a recent interview, saying it began behind-the-scenes of the HBO fantasy series because Martin became “unwilling to acknowledge the practical issues at hand.”
Condal’s comments were made in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Monday to coincide with the start of production on “House of the Dragon” Season 3. It has been months since Martin published last September a contentious, quickly-deleted blog post criticizing Condal and the show’s leadership over their past and planned changes to his source material, and even longer since “House of the Dragon” Season 2 went off the air in early August.