Screenwriter Mattson Tomlin has his hands in a number of high-profile geek properties.

Tomlin briefly addressed the latter in an interview withEntertainment WeeklyaboutTerminator: Zero.

HBO has not formally greenlit the spinoff, but the concept is about Aegon Targaryen, a.k.a.

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Aegon Targaryen as illustrated by artist Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme in ‘The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty’.Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme

“Unlike the original series, I don’t have thousands of pages to go off to adapt.

How did it feel?

What were the emotions when this person died and this person lived?

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Prince Daemon’s dragon Caraxes roars in ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.Courtesy of HBO

We don’t have the context.

We don’t know what anybody said.”

ButHouse of the Dragonalready expanded on the lore of Aegon the Conqueror in its first season.

People are picking my brain all the time.

It’s very early days, but we shall see," he says.

Condal is also executive producingA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

Meanwhile,House of the Dragonseason 2 premieres on HBO and Max on June 16.

Read more inEW’s Summer TV Preview cover story.

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