Who Is Geeta Patel? Director Of 'House of the Dragon'

The fantasy drama television show House of the Dragon premiered on August 21, 2022. It is a stand-alone prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the second instalment of the franchise, and is developed by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO. The show includes ten episodes, and the eighth episode—which featured the death of one of the main characters—recently became its most important episode thus far. Geeta Patel is the director of this eighth episode.

She is currently making headlines for the episode's narrative since she verified that the King had taken his last breath in the spin-off show. Episode 8's director, Geeta Patel, announced that King Viserys Targaryen's rule has ended, introducing Game of Thrones for the show. Patel said in an interview, "I think the last scene of this episode was always a litmus test. Every time we'd watch or think it through when we got to that last scene, did we feel what we wanted to feel there?"

Who is Geeta Patel?

Geeta Vasant Patel, a Sundance Film Festival Emmy nominee, is known for her unconventional, form-pushing, and emotionally charged comedic and dramatic works.

She and her brother, Ravi Vasant Patel, received an Emmy nomination for their movie Meet The Patels. Geralyn Dreyfous, an Academy Award winner, served as the film's executive producer, and it had its theatrical debut in 2015. Along with her brother, Geeta Patel worked on the movie as a writer, producer, editor, and director.

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She made her filmmaking debut with the Sundance/ITVS war thriller Project Kashmir, which earned her fellowships at the Tribeca and Sundance Institutes. In the world of television, Patel began as a second-unit director on the Netflix series Sense 8 from the Wachowskis and later directed humorous and dramatic programmes like Superstore, The Great, and House of the Dragon.

In the early phases of her career, Patel worked as an associate screenwriter on high-budget studio movies, doing everything from original writing to rewrites during production. She has collaborated on a variety of movies, including The Fast and the Furious and Blue Crush, with Disney, Universal Pictures, ABC, NBC, and Twentieth Century Fox.