House of the Dragon season 3 just raised the temperature at SXSW London. During an hour-long panel diving into the imminent third season, behind-the-scenes footage and a previously unreleased clip from the opening episode were shown, teasing the much-anticipated Battle of the Gullet.
The footage, according to showrunner and HotD co-creator Ryan Condal, was from the "early moments" of the sequence, and featured Lord Corlys (Steve Toussaint) and his illegitimate son, Alyn (Abubakar Salim), on the deck of the Queen Who Never Was, before hell is unleashed. "This sequence, I will confidently say, is unlike anything ever been done on television before," Condal claimed, after noting that the idea of bringing the Battle of the Gullet to screen had been "haunting" him and production designer Jim Clay for "the better part" of four years. "Certainly the amount of construction that you guys did for just for one episode is kind of crazy and frankly irresponsible, but it was necessary to tell the story."
