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HBO ’s House of the Dragon has tapped Tommy Flanagan for Ser Roderick Dustin and Dan Fogler for Ser Torrhen Manderly for the third season .
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A minuscule more than two calendar month after learning thatJames Norton(HBO’sThe Nevers ) had been tapped to play Ormund Hightower , and with filming on the third season do to begin filming , HBO and showrunnerRyan Condal’sHouse of the Dragonhas found its Ser Roderick Dustin , aka " Roddy the Ruin , " inTommy Flanagan(Sons of Anarchy , Gladiator ) . In addition , Dan Fogler(The walk Dead , A Complete Unknown ) has been tapped for the function of Ser Torrhen Manderly , a knight of House Manderly in the north . " I do n’t need to say much because I think this is one of those truly memorable ' Game of Thrones ' characters , and I ’m very aroused to bring him into the fold , " Condalshared exclusively with EW . " But he is a fixture in Fire & Blood , and I recall he ’s one of those true fan favorites . I ’m very , very gallant of the part that we ’ve written . " As for Flanagan , Condal praise the role player for being " a delight and a thrill , " adding , " I ’m so excited to see what he ’s going to do with the character . "
And here ’s a smell at the announcement video that was released confirming the beginning of production on the third season :
The fight for the Throne is far from over .
S3 of#HOTDis now in production.pic.twitter.com/zGgISrHUhl
— Max ( @StreamOnMax)March 31 , 2025
House of the Dragon: Condal Defends “Blood & Cheese,” Maelor Changes
Conveniently enough , a bonus installment of the show ’s official podcast dropped in the midst of all of the finger - pointing and post vanish from back in September 2024 between the showrunner andGeorge RR Martin , one that go out Condal address a number of questions regarding bringing " Fire & Blood " to live - action life . Here ’s what Condal had to say in defence of the decisions made regarding " parentage & Cheese " and Maelor :
" Blood & Cheese " : " I stand behind the adaption of how the plot unfolded . I have talked about this quite a number , but I will just say it in plain text : the fry that we had in the chronicle were simply too young to be able to construct that narrative just as repose out in the book . Period . I have batch of experience working with very young performing artist . To ask two four - year - olds to wager through that layer of dramatic event ; it ’s just not a realistic arithmetic mean .
There ’s also a practical component around the things that you’re able to expose young shaver to on a moving-picture show set . Yes , you may do clever cutaway drawing , and dummies , and all those things . We want this to be a very visceral , subjective experience , not something that was very ' cutting - atomic number 39 ' and with closeup . And when you start really break aside what pass off in that way , and the things that are said , and the thing that are done , it became such a challenge to think about and mount that we started look for — what are the baseborn elements of this chronicle , that Daemon and Rhaenyra send assassins into the Red Keep , and as a result the king ’s tyke and heir [ is ] murdered — and how do we dramatise that in a way of life that ’s exciting , and visceral , and horrible , and do it in the sound way of life potential ? "
drop off Maelor : " And Maelor , if he were born yet in this version of the the television timeline , would have been an baby because of the age of Jaehaerys and Jaehaera . Frankly , this go back to our first time of year and trying to adapt a story that takes spot over 20 days of history instead of a story that accept blank space over 30 years of history . We had to make some compromise in render that chronicle so that we did n’t have to recast the whole cast multiple times and really turn a loss people . It was a pick made . It did have a ripple force , and we decide that we were going to be given into it and seek to make it a strength alternatively of playing it as aweakness . "
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