Ryan Condal

Condal was born in {{Birth based on age as of date|32|2012|April|15|noage=1}} in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, in the United States and grew up in Hasbrouck Heights. He graduated from Villanova University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Accountancy degree.{{cite news |last=Plyler |first=Will |url=http://www.donedealpro.com/members/details.aspx?object_id=396&content_type=1§ion_id=11 |title=Interviews: Ryan Condal |work=Done Deal Professional |date=September 22, 2008 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} After college, he lived on the East Side in Manhattan and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for eight years, first working in marketing then shifting to advertising. While working, he submitted stories to competitions to win fellowships and grants and started placing in competitions. He was able to transfer his job to Los Angeles, where he continued writing.{{cite news | last=Kuperinsky | first=Amy | url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2022/08/inside-house-of-the-dragon-with-george-rr-martin-and-ryan-condal-nj-creators-of-game-of-thrones-prequel.html | title=Inside 'House of the Dragon' with George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal, N.J. creators of 'Game of Thrones' prequel | work=NJ.com | date=August 19, 2022 | accessdate=October 10, 2022 }} He eventually sold a script titled Galahad to The Film Company in early 2008. The film stalled in development hell, and the script ranked in the Top 15 of The Black List for 2008. He was subsequently hired by Universal Pictures to write an adaptation of the Radical Comics 2008 comic book series Hercules: The Thracian Wars. The studio 20th Century Fox also hired Condal to write a new draft of a screenplay adapting the Oni Press comic book series Queen & Country.{{cite magazine |last=Zeitchik |first=Steven |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i91e05ffd5e045bf116b5412faf2e19e5 |title=Fox, scribe go 'Country' mile |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827181906/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i91e05ffd5e045bf116b5412faf2e19e5 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=August 23, 2009 |archivedate=August 27, 2009 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} By 2010, Condal helped rewrite a screenplay adapting the epic 17th-century English poem Paradise Lost for Legendary Pictures.{{cite magazine |last=McNary |first=Dave |url=https://variety.com/2010/film/news/proyas-finds-paradise-1118024218/ |title=Proyas finds 'Paradise' |magazine=Variety |date=September 16, 2010 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}}

By 2012, he was working on a film adaptation of The Art of War by Sun Tzu, also for Legendary,{{cite magazine |last1=Abrams |first1=Rachel |last2=McNary |first2=Dave |url=https://variety.com/2012/film/news/hercules-scribe-to-pen-cell-211-1118053302/ |title='Hercules' scribe to pen 'Cell 211' |magazine=Variety |date=April 30, 2012 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} though by late 2013, screenwriter Alex Litvak was hired to write a new approach.{{cite magazine |last=Kit |first=Borys |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/predators-scribe-enlisted-art-war-649374/ |title='Predators' Scribe Enlisted for 'Art of War' (Exclusive) |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 17, 2013 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} Also in 2012, Condal was hired by CBS Films to write an English-language remake of the 2009 Spanish-language film Celda 211. He was also hired to write a film titled Boy Nobody for Sony Pictures.{{cite magazine |last=Rose |first=Lacey |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/losts-carlton-cuse-developing-sixth-377475/ |title='Lost's' Carlton Cuse Developing 'The Sixth Gun' at NBC |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 11, 2012 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}}

Condal began collaboration with Carlton Cuse to produce for NBC a television pilot of the comic book series The Sixth Gun. Condal wrote the pilot, and he and Cuse were executive producers of the pilot. The pilot was green-lighted in 2013, and it was filmed in the US state of New Mexico, but NBC did not pick up the series.{{cite news |last=Gomez |first=Adrian |url=https://www.abqjournal.com/404696/santa-fe-screening.html |title=Raising the dead: See the never-released pilot of 'The Sixth Gun' series |work=Albuquerque Journal |date=May 23, 2014 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}}

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,{{cite magazine |last=Sneider |first=Jeff |url=https://variety.com/2012/film/news/dwayne-johnson-signs-on-as-hercules-1118051078/ |title=Dwayne Johnson signs on as Hercules |magazine=Variety |date=March 5, 2012 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} and Spiliotopoulos revised the script.{{cite magazine |last=Kroll |first=Justin |url=https://variety.com/2012/film/news/par-pairs-with-mgm-on-hercules-1118061869/ |title=Par pairs with MGM on 'Hercules' |magazine=Variety |date=November 7, 2012 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} 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).{{cite magazine |last=Kroll |first=Justin |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/carlton-cuse-ryan-condall-dwayne-johnson-rampage-1201692420/ |title=Carlton Cuse and Ryan Condal to Rewrite Dwayne Johnson's 'Rampage' (Exclusive) |magazine=Variety |date=February 2, 2016 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} In 2014, USA Network green-lighted a television pilot.{{cite magazine |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://deadline.com/2014/07/carlton-cuse-usa-network-alien-drama-pilot-colony-legendary-tv-810947/ |title=USA Gives Pilot Order To Alien Drama From Carlton Cuse, Legendary TV & UCP |magazine=Deadline Hollywood |date=July 28, 2014 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}}

• {{cite magazine |last=Friedlander |first=Whitney |url=https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/carlton-cuse-ryan-condal-colony-usa-1201270177/ |title=USA Picks Up Carlton Cuse-Ryan Condal Dystopian Family Drama Pilot |magazine=Variety |date=July 28, 2014 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} 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.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/netflix-acquires-rights-to-jane-the-virgin-two-other-shows-1201603699/ |title=Netflix Acquires Worldwide Rights to Jane the Virgin, Two Other Shows |magazine=Variety |date=September 27, 2015 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} Colony lasted for three seasons, from 2016 to 2018, and was canceled in July 2018 before the third season's finale.{{cite magazine |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://deadline.com/2018/07/colony-canceled-usa-network-after-3-seasons-1202431078/ |title='Colony' Canceled By USA Network After 3 Seasons |magazine=Deadline Hollywood |date=July 21, 2018 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}}

In 2016 before Colony premiered, Condal and Cuse were hired to rewrite the script for the film Rampage produced under New Line Cinema. They rewrote a draft written by Ryan Engle, and Adam Sztykiel wrote the final revisions.{{cite magazine |last=Kroll |first=Justin |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/malin-akerman-dwayne-johnson-rampage-1202009904/ |title=Malin Akerman Joins Dwayne Johnson in 'Rampage' |magazine=Variety |date=March 16, 2017 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} 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.{{cite magazine |last=Lincoln |first=Ross A. |url=https://deadline.com/2016/06/logans-run-remake-ryan-condal-warner-bros-1201763919/ |title='Logan's Run' Redo Starts Anew With 'Colony's Ryan Condal |magazine=Deadline Hollywood |date=June 1, 2016 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} 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.{{cite magazine |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://deadline.com/2018/02/amazon-developing-conan-drama-based-robert-e-howard-books-colony-co-creator-1202278547/ |title=Conan the Barbarian TV Series In Works At Amazon From Ryan Condal, Miguel Sapochnik & Warren Littlefield |magazine=Deadline Hollywood |date=February 5, 2018 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} Condal also submitted a script to Lionsgate that would reboot the Highlander film series, a studio effort that was a decade old.{{cite magazine |last=White |first=Peter |url=https://deadline.com/2018/03/highlander-reboot-gets-moving-after-colony-writer-ryan-condal-hands-in-script-1202307522/ |title='Highlander' Reboot Gets Moving After 'Colony' Writer Ryan Condal Hands In Script |magazine=Deadline Hollywood |date=March 1, 2018 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} Shortly after Rampage{{'}}s release in the second quarter of 2018, Lionsgate hired Condal to write a screenplay adapting the Image Comics series Analog.{{cite news |last=Kit |first=Borys |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/john-wick-director-chad-stahelski-colonys-ryan-condal-tackle-comic-book-analog-lionsgate-1113922/ |title='John Wick' Director, 'Colony' Creator Tackle Comic Book 'Analog' for Lionsgate (Exclusive) |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=May 22, 2018 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}}

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).{{cite magazine |last=Otterson |first=Joe |url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/game-of-thrones-prequel-house-of-the-dragon-hbo-1203387420/ |title='Game of Thrones' Prequel Series 'House of the Dragon' Ordered at HBO |magazine=Variety |date=October 29, 2019 |accessdate=May 5, 2021}} 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.

When HBO began exploring in 2016 spinoffs to Game of Thrones, Condal unsuccessfully pitched to them a series that adapted Martin's series of novellas Tales of Dunk and Egg.{{cite magazine | last=Romano | first=Nick | url=https://ew.com/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-house-of-the-dragon-ryan-condal-involvement-exclusive-8648577 | title=House of the Dragon co-creator explains A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms involvement | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | date=May 15, 2024 | accessdate=May 11, 2025 }} 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. House of the Dragon premiered in August 2022, and by the end of the month, Sapochnik stepped down as showrunner, leaving Condal as the remaining showrunner for House of the Dragon.{{cite magazine | last1=Hibberd | first1=James | last2=Kit | first2=Borys | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/house-of-the-dragon-miguel-sapochnik-leaving-1235208276/ | title='House of the Dragon' Shake-Up: Co-Showrunner Miguel Sapochnik Leaving Hit Series (Exclusive) | magazine=The Hollywood Reporter | date=August 31, 2022 | accessdate=September 1, 2022 }} The series was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in its 75th ceremony, with Condal among 11 producers recognized.{{cite web | url=https://www.televisionacademy.com/awards/nominees-winners/2023/outstanding-drama-series | title=Outstanding Drama Series 2023 - Nominees & Winners | work=televisionacademy.com | publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences | accessdate=May 11, 2025 }}

House of the Dragon was renewed for a second season with Condal as the sole showrunner,{{cite news | last=Andreeva | first=Nellie | url=https://deadline.com/2022/10/ryan-condal-hbo-overall-deal-renewed-house-of-the-dragon-season-2-1235138323/ | title='House Of The Dragon' Showrunner Ryan Condal Extends Overall Deal With HBO | work=Deadline Hollywood | date=October 7, 2022 | accessdate=October 10, 2022 }} and the second season premiered on June 16, 2024.{{cite news | last=Lowry | first=Brian | url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/entertainment/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-review/index.html | title='House of the Dragon' braces for war in its fiery second season | work=cnn.com | publisher=CNN | date=June 6, 2024 | accessdate=June 10, 2024 }} Condal resumed as sole showrunner for the third season.{{cite magazine | last=Romano | first=Nick | url=https://ew.com/house-of-the-dragon-ryan-condal-responds-george-r-r-martin-blog-season-3-new-casting-exclusive-11704545 | title=House of the Dragon boss talks season 3, that George R. R. Martin blog post, and new casting as filming ignites (exclusive) | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | date=March 31, 2025 | accessdate=May 11, 2025 }}

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. Condal will be one of the executive producers for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.{{cite news | last1=Tapp | first1=Tom | last2=Gomez | first2=Dessi | url=https://deadline.com/feature/knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-cast-release-date-1235836300/ | title='A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms': Everything We Know About The 'Game Of Thrones' Prequel, Including Plot, Premiere Date & Whether George R.R. Martin Is Involved | work=Deadline Hollywood | date=January 29, 2025 | accessdate=May 11, 2025 }}

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.

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