He’s going full dracarys.
“Game of Thrones” author George R. R. Martin is slamming Ryan Condal, the creator of the spinoff “House of the Dragon.”
“It’s worse than rocky. It’s abysmal,” Martin told The Hollywood Reporter about the state of their relationship.
Martin, 77, added that he “hired” Condal and thought the two men were “partners.”
“And we were all through the first season. I would read early drafts of the scripts. I would give notes. He would change some things. It was working really well — I thought,” he said in the story, which published Thursday.
“House of the Dragon” has currently aired two seasons, and is renewed for two more. It will end with Season 4.
“Then we got into season two, and he basically stopped listening to me,” Martin said about Condal.
The author griped, “I would give notes, and nothing would happen. Sometimes he would explain why he wasn’t doing it. Other times, he would tell me, ‘Oh, OK, yeah, I’ll think about that.’ It got worse and worse, and I began to get more and more annoyed.”
“Finally, it got to a point where I was told by HBO that I should submit all my notes to them and they would give Ryan our combined notes.”
The Post reached out to Condal for comment.
This isn’t Martin’s first time criticizing Condal. In Sept. 2024, Martin published a blog post that was quickly taken down.
In the now deleted post, the famous author wrote about “toxic” changes that “House of the Dragon” was making to the books.
Then he slammed the creator for — spoiler alert! — writing a death with little apparent narrative lead-up.
“In Ryan’s outline for season 3, Helaena still kills herself … for no particular reason,” said Martin. “There is no fresh horror, no triggering event to overwhelm the fragile young queen.”
Season 3 has not aired yet or gotten a premiere date. Helaena (Phia Saban) is still alive on all the episodes that have aired so far.
Martin told THR on Thursday that his blog post upset an HBO exec, who relayed the message to Martin’s manager and assistant, leading to the post getting taken down.
He said that the blog post was originally supposed to be one of six posts describing his problems with “House of the Dragon.”
After Condal and Martin had a Zoom call where Condal presented his ideas for Season 3, per THR, Martin reportedly said, “This is not my story any longer.”
In statement he gave to EW last year, Condal said, “I made every effort to include George in the adaptation process. I really did. … But at some point, he just became unwilling to acknowledge the practical issues at hand in a reasonable way .. I just have to keep marching forward for the sake of the crew, the cast, and for HBO, because that’s my job … I can only hope that George and I can rediscover that harmony someday.”
Meanwhile, the second “Game of Thrones” spinoff, “A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms,” will premiere Sunday (10 p.m. on HBO).
Showrunner Ira Parker told The Post that he had a good relationship with Martin.
“[Martin was] pretty much always my first read on any script,” he said.
“I would send him scripts, even before I sent them to HBO. We’d have great conversations about them. I told him pretty early on that I wouldn’t put anything in that he didn’t want me to.”
