"Game of Thrones" has deservedly become the most popular fantasy drama, HBO has made a lot of money with it and its derivatives, but this is only the "silver" that users contribute to HBO through genuine channels.
According to the statistics of muso, a foreign piracy monitoring organization, "Game of Thrones" has been illegally downloaded hundreds of millions of times per episode on average, while the official statistics of HBO only have more than 30 million paid viewers per episode, the former exceeding the latter by more than 3 times, which shows how popular "Game of Thrones" is on a global scale.
Such a golden signboard is naturally the focus of HBO's subsequent development, in addition to how to control piracy, the intensive filming of spin-offs and other derivative dramas is also a top priority.
At present, HBO has booked a spin-off story of "Game of Thrones", and in view of the success of the previous game, HBO has proudly booked 10 episodes, which is adapted from the original George Martin novel "Fire and Blood", temporarily named "Game of Thrones: Dragon Family", which will be broadcast in 2022.
It is not difficult to see from the name of the series that the new story is an old story that focuses on the Targaryen family of the Mother of Dragons, but there will be no role in the Mother of Dragons in this drama, which will inevitably make many die-hard fans sad.
In fact, The Timeline of Game of Thrones: Dragon Family predates the canonical story by hundreds of years, culminating in the famous "Dance of the Blood Dragons" war, the most brutal and bloody civil war in the Targaryen family, in which the Targaryens split into opposing "black parties" and "green parties", and each set up their own king to fight.
The war lasted for nearly three years, and eventually the leaders of both factions were killed, which greatly shook the foundations of the empire and led to the Iron Islands invading the western region taking advantage of the lack of inland troops, causing a large number of losses of personnel and materials.
In the canon, Westeros experienced the great wars that swept the countries and the Night King rebellion that almost the entire continent fell, but why did HBO choose this "Blood Dragon Dance" war 300 years ago as the new theme to shoot the series? It can be said that the chaotic situation in Westeros 300 years later is to some extent the "Blood Dragon Dance" has given the tone.
In the "Dance of the Blood Dragons", most of the Targaryen family members died in the civil war, and as many as a dozen dragons were killed in the war, only four dragons survived the "Blood Dragon Dance" period, and only one of the four dragons that was still controlled by the Targaryens was "Dawn".
While the civil war withered the talents of the ruler's family, the number of dragons capable of restraining ghosts and deterring the princes was drastically reduced, marking the beginning of the Decline of the Targaryen family.
HBO attaches great importance to the spin-off drama "Game of Thrones: Dragon Family", using the director miguel Sapsnik of the sixth and eighth seasons of the canon "Game of Thrones", and co-directing with the hit American dramas "Prison Break" and "Lost" Greg Athanis, this director lineup believes that it can dispel the doubts of the audience that the sequel is not as good as the main story.
In terms of actors, the "young king" Viserys I is played by the skilled British actor Paddy Constance, whose performance in the third season of "Blood Gangster" is perfect, and the priest he plays makes many viewers eager to smash mobile phones and computers and kill him. This time playing Viserys I, who is known for his kindness, also allows the audience to see another side of him.
As for the heroine, the casting of this time is also very appropriate, the original mentioned the debauched and vicious Alison Hightower's appearance is very deceptive, beautiful and cute appearance, sexy and charming figure will hide her ambition perfectly, it looks like Allison is like a girl who does not understand the world.
In the play, Allison is played by the new generation of British actress Olivia Cook, she is the eccentric Samantha in "Ready Player One",
The lovely Emma in "Bates Inn", the pure and lovely Livia Cook is undoubtedly very close to Alison in terms of image, and we will wait and see if she can present this woman with a deep heart in front of the audience.
Soon, a new "Game of Thrones" will meet with everyone on the screen, presumably it will set off another ratings frenzy, but also look forward to the "Game of Thrones" world is more and more complete, there will be more stories in the form of episodes to bring the audience audiovisual enjoyment.