House of the Dragon will have a different tone from Game of Thrones

The Hollywood Reporter

“I think we were very respectful of what the original show is,” said Game of Thrones vet Miguel Sapochnik, who serves as showrunner the Game of Thrones prequel series with co-creator Ryan Condal while also directing multiple episodes, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “It wasn’t broken, so we’re not we’re not trying to reinvent the wheel. House of the Dragon has its own tone that will evolve and emerge over the course of the show." Spaochnik added: “We can’t say, ‘Well, when we did Thrones, we did it this way …' If you start every sentence with that, you’ve lost. This is something else, and should be something else. It’s a different crew, different people, different tone. Hopefully it will be seen as something else. But it will have to earn that — it won’t happen overnight. Hopefully fans will enjoy it for the thing that it is. We’ll be lucky if we ever come close to what the original show was, so we’re just putting our heads down and getting on with it and hoping what we come up with is worthy of having a Game of Thrones title.”