Ryan Condal

First credits: Hercules, Colony, and Rampage Condal's first official screenwriting credit, shared with Evan Spiliotopoulos, was for the 2014 film Hercules. Condal had written an initial script for Paramount Pictures, and Spiliotopoulos revised the script. Meanwhile, despite the pilot for The Sixth Gun not becoming a TV series, Condal and Carlton Cuse sought to work together again and co-created the project that would become the TV series Colony (2016–2018). In 2014, USA Network green-lit a television pilot. The pilot for Colony was picked up and ultimately became a TV series co-produced by Legendary Television and Universal Cable Productions. It premiered on USA Network in January 2016. Colony lasted for three seasons, from 2016 to 2018, and was canceled in July 2018 before the third season's finale.

In 2016 before Colony premiered, Condal and Cuse were hired to rewrite the script for the film Rampage produced under New Line Cinema. Later in 2016, Condal began writing a screenplay for Warner Bros.'s perpetually-in-development remake of the 1976 science fiction film Logan's Run, itself based on a book published in 1967. By early 2018, Condal created and wrote Conan, a potential TV series adapting the character Conan the Barbarian as written by Robert E. Howard, and the series was acquired by Amazon Studios. Condal also submitted a script to Lionsgate that would reboot the Highlander film series, a studio effort that was a decade old. Shortly after Rampages release in the second quarter of 2018, Lionsgate hired Condal to write a screenplay adapting the Image Comics series Analog.

In late 2022, Condal wrote Neo Earth to be made into a film by Brad Peyton under Netflix. Condal also sold a pitch to Lionsgate to be directed by Chad Stahelski. Condal's involvement with Highlander under Lionsgate also continued, with Stahelski also attached to direct.

Creating House of the Dragon With A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin, Condal created the HBO TV series House of the Dragon (2022 to present) that is a prequel to the TV series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). Condal, who was familiar with A Song of Ice and Fire, first met Martin at a book convention in 2005. By 2013, when Condal was working on The Sixth Gun, he successfully sought a meeting with Martin, and the two developed a friendship. In late 2019, HBO ordered Condal and Martin's House of the Dragon to be produced. Condal served as a showrunner with Miguel Sapochnik and also served as an executive producer with Sapochnik, Martin, and Vince Gerardis. The series was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in its 75th ceremony, with Condal among 11 producers recognized.

House of the Dragon was renewed for a second season with Condal as the sole showrunner, and the second season premiered on June 16, 2024. Condal resumed as sole showrunner for the third season.

When HBO decided to adapt Tales of Dunk and Egg to the series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2026), Condal recommended to them Ira Parker, one of the writers of House of the Dragon, to create the series.

Falling-out with George R. R. Martin In January 2026, Martin described his relationship with Condal as "abysmal" and said his disputes over House of the Dragon involved changes from the source material Fire & Blood that he said affected key plot points. Martin said that, after the first season, he received early drafts, gave notes, and saw some changes made, but that "when we got into season two" Condal "basically stopped listening" to him, and Martin was later told to submit notes through HBO rather than directly to Condal. Sources said Martin and Condal's relationship worsened further during a meeting in which Condal presented his plans for season three, after which HBO asked Martin to step back from the series for a period before he was later brought back. Martin objected to Condal's vision for season three of House of the Dragon and said, "This is not my story any longer".

Credits

+ Condal's credits Year(s) Title Medium Credits 2014 Hercules Film Screenplay credit with Evan Spiliotopoulos 2016–2018 Colony Television Co-creator with Carlton Cuse, executive producer, writer (36 episodes) 2026-present Executive producer