‘House of the Dragon’ Director Breaks Down Epic Sea Battle, Building Two Full-Scale Ships and What’s Next After [SPOILER]’s Death

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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 3 premiere of “House of the Dragon,” now streaming on HBO Max.

During early discussions about how they would pull off the much-anticipated Battle of the Gullet sequence that opens “House of the Dragon” Season 3, director Loni Peristere (who previously directed the “Red Sowing” episode of Season 2, and calls himself the biggest “fanboy” of George R.R. Martin’s books) recalls telling his director of photographer, P.J. Dillon, one important thing: “We need to go back to what epic means for battles at sea.”

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