{"id":176470,"date":"2023-01-04T03:29:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T03:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/miguel-sapochniks-real-reason-for-leaving-house-of-the-dragon\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T03:29:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T03:29:11","slug":"miguel-sapochniks-real-reason-for-leaving-house-of-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/miguel-sapochniks-real-reason-for-leaving-house-of-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Sapochnik’s Real Reason for Leaving ‘House of the Dragon’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Queen Alicent’s maid Talya \u2014 or, at least, the woman who portrayed her \u2014 turns out to be a more important House of the Dragon<\/em> figure than we might have realized.<\/p>\n

Dragon<\/em> co-showrunner and director Miguel Sapochnik left HBO’s game of Thrones<\/i> spinoff ahead of Season 2 \u201cafter a protracted standoff over his wife and her involvement in the show,\u201d Puck reports. Sapochnik’s wife? Alexis Raben, who played the queen’s lady-in-waiting in several Season 1 episodes and who also was one of the show’s producers.<\/p>\n

Per the report, Thrones<\/em> vet Sapochnik wanted Raben to join his and co-showrunner Ryan Condal’s producing team for Dragon<\/i>‘s second season. HBO thought she did not have enough experience. The negotiations got so heated that HBO had a mediator attempt to cool things down, but Sapochnik eventually walked away from the prequel spinoff he helped launch.<\/p>\n

HBO declined to comment for both the original report and to TVLine.<\/p>\n