“House of the Dragon”’s Ewan Mitchell Reveals If He Knows When Aemond Will Die On-Screen (Exclusive)

NEED TO KNOW

• House of the Dragon is a prequel series set 200 years before Game of Thrones and based on Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin

• Ewan Mitchell, who plays Aemond Targaryen in the show, tells PEOPLE whether he’s had conversations with showrunner Ryan Condal about when Aemond, who dies in Fire & Blood, will die on the show

• Season 3 of House of the Dragon premieres Sunday, June 21, at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.

It’s no secret to House of the Dragon fans that a majority of the show’s characters are going to die.

The prequel series, set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, brings the fall of the House Targaryen to the screen by adapting George R. R. Martin‘s Fire & Blood. The central plot of House of the Dragon is the civil war within the Targaryen family, which began with King Viserys’ (Paddy Considine) death, his wife, Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke), misinterpreting his final wishes and usurping his daughter Rhaenyra’s (Emma D’Arcy) claim to the Iron Throne for their son, Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney).

Fans have been waiting four years now, since the show’s 2022 premiere, to see the Dance of the Dragons begin, and the civil war among the family to kick into high gear, and season 3, which debuts Sunday, June 21, promises to do just that.

“There’s going to be a lot of upset,” Ewan Mitchell, who plays Aemond Targaryen, tells PEOPLE of season 3.

“There are certain story beats and character beats that I know that are coming up, especially in this season as well, season 3 — really juicy moments that I couldn’t wait to sink my teeth into,” he teases. “I can’t wait.”

While season 3 promises much of the chaos that fans have been eagerly awaiting, there’s still one big thing that Mitchell, 29, doesn’t know. “I’m not too sure what the timeline looks like,” he says when asked if he knows when Aemond will die on-screen.

Season 3 is an “all-out war,” Mitchell told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s just a blitz straight out of the gate,” he said, while D’Arcy, 33, teased that the season “starts at 60 miles an hour,” and fans will finally see “a war that has been building for two seasons.”

“I’m so impressed by Ryan and the team, because, to really hold your nerve to stage a conflict that has been, until now, primarily interpersonal, interfamily — and then [to] finally, in one huge gesture, allow that conflict to unleash on the realm as a whole, I think is some very classy plotting,” D’Arcy told the outlet.

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Following the season 2 finale, the series faced backlash from Martin, who addressed some of the major changes made on-screen in a post on his official website that he later deleted.

“There are larger and more toxic butterflies to come, if HOUSE OF THE DRAGON goes ahead with some of the changes being contemplated for seasons 3 and 4,” he wrote in the post.

In response, showrunner Condal told Entertainment Weekly that he had “made every effort to include George in the adaptation process.”

“I really did. Over years and years. And we really enjoyed a mutually fruitful, I thought, really strong collaboration for a long time. But at some point, as we got deeper down the road, he just became unwilling to acknowledge the practical issues at hand in a reasonable way,” he said.

Condal admitted the critiques were “disappointing,” but said he “can only hope that George and I can rediscover that harmony someday.”

Season 3 of House of the Dragon premieres Sunday, June 21, at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.

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