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Let the Dance of the Dragons begin. House of the Dragon is coming backmost for a 2nd season. Rest assured, it volition beryllium epic. HBO announced connected April 11, 2023, that play 2 was officially successful production. The amusement has continued to movie the 2nd play amid the writers’ and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The HOTD squad has explained wherefore the amusement is capable to movie contempt different productions being enactment connected clasp amid the strikes. As the formed and unit proceed to film, 1 of the show’s directors teased a “jam-packed” play 2 with “emotionally and visually breathtaking events.”
It's clip to instrumentality to King's Landing.
Season 2 of #HouseoftheDragon is present successful production. pic.twitter.com/lGSQSq6oK9
— House of the Dragon (@HouseofDragon) April 11, 2023
“House of the Dragon has returned. We are thrilled to beryllium shooting again with members of our archetypal household arsenic good arsenic caller talents connected some sides of the camera,” co-creator, showrunner/executive shaper Ryan Condal said successful an April 2023 statement. “All your favourite characters volition soon beryllium conspiring astatine the assembly tables, marching with their armies, and riding their dragons into battle. We can’t hold to stock what we person successful store.”
The deed HBO bid and Game of Thrones prequel got the play 2 greenlight backmost successful August 2022, conscionable days aft its premiere. With specified a immense production, there’s already a batch we cognize astir House of the Dragon play 2. The amusement has been nominated for 9 Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series. From premiere day quality to casting rumors, HollywoodLife is breaking down everything we cognize truthful acold astir the 2nd season.
Emma D’Arcy and Matt Smith arsenic Rhaenyra and Daemon. (HBO)
House Of The Dragon Season 2 Premiere Date
House of the Dragon play 2 doesn’t person an nonstop premiere day yet.
HBO and HBO Max contented CEO Casey Bloys told Variety successful February 2023 that it’s a “good guess” that House of the Dragon play 2 volition premiere successful 2024. He didn’t uncover a circumstantial day oregon clip of year, but helium did hint that play 2 wouldn’t beryllium eligible for 2024 Emmys. The eligibility play for the 2024 Emmys ends connected May 31, 2024. This means that House of the Dragon play 2 volition apt premiere successful summertime 2024 oregon later. Filming for play 2 began successful April 2023 astatine Leavesden Studios successful the United Kingdom and volition past the bulk of the year.
When the WGA writers’ onslaught began successful May 2023, House of the Dragon didn’t intermission filming. Production was capable to proceed due to the fact that the scripts for play 2 person been “done for immoderate time,” according to Variety. Showrunner Ryan Condal was inactive connected acceptable successful a non-writing capacity.
“The scripts for the 8 s2 episodes were each finished months ago, agelong earlier the onslaught began, Every occurrence has gone done 4 oregon 5 drafts and galore rounds of revisions, to code HBO notes, my notes, fund concerns, etc. There volition beryllium nary further revisions,” writer and enforcement shaper George R.R. Martin wrote successful a blog post.
On July 13, actors who are portion of SAG-AFTRA, the U.S. labour union, went connected strike. This prevented actors from filming projects and promoting them until a caller declaration is made. However, House of the Dragon was not impacted. The prequel bid is successful a declaration accumulation with Equity, the U.K. labour radical for actors. Most of the House of the Dragon actors are nether Equity contracts and not SAG-AFTRA, truthful they are inactive capable to film.
“I americium told the 2nd play is fractional done,” George said successful a blog post aft the actors’ onslaught began. “ALL of the scripts had been finished months earlier the WGA onslaught began. No penning has been done since, to the champion of my knowledge. HOTD is changeable mostly successful London (and a small spot successful Wales, Spain, and assorted different locations), which is wherefore filming has continued. The actors are members of the British union, Equity, not SAG-AFTRA, and though Equity powerfully supports their American cousins (they person a large rally planned to amusement that support), British instrumentality forbids them from staging a sympathy strike. If they walk, they person nary extortion against being fired for breach of contract, oregon adjacent sued.”
The archetypal play of House of the Dragon premiered successful August 2022. If the amusement does instrumentality successful summertime 2024, that volition beryllium a astir 2-year hold betwixt seasons.
“We are beyond arrogant of what the full House of the Dragon squad has accomplished with play 1. Our phenomenal formed and unit undertook a monolithic situation and exceeded each expectations, delivering a amusement that has already established itself arsenic must-see TV. A immense convey you to George, Ryan, and Miguel for starring america connected this journey. We couldn’t beryllium much excited to proceed bringing to beingness the epic saga of House Targaryen with play 2,” Francesca Orsi, enforcement vice president of HBO Programming, said successful a statement.
How Many Episodes Of House Of The Dragon Season 2 Will There Be?
House of the Dragon play 2 volition dwell of 8 episodes, according to Deadline. The 2nd play volition beryllium a shorter play compared to the 10-episode archetypal season. The 8-episode play 2 is portion of a “long-term program for the show” aft showrunner Ryan Condal and writer George R.R. Martin looked astatine the amusement arsenic a full and mapped retired the series.
The “initial plan” for play 2 was so 10 episodes. When that changed, scripts underwent rewrites. An HBO spokesperson told the outlet that the shorter play was story-driven and not portion of cost-cutting measures for Warner Bros. Discovery.
Director Clare Kilner weighed successful connected the shortened play successful a caller interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter. “There are 8 fantastic episodes with truthful overmuch happening successful each episode, and we person trouble, astatine times, bringing them down to 1 hour. Ryan’s determination was to springiness it a bully opening and a bully ending, and they’re jam-packed with affectional and visually breathtaking events,” she said.
What Will Happen In House Of The Dragon Season 2?
House of the Dragon follows George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, which tells the past of House Targaryen. The bid focuses connected the Dance of the Dragons, a deadly civilian warfare wrong House Targaryen. The archetypal play ended with Prince Aegon II usurping the throne (with the assistance of his parent Queen Alicent and the Greens) and being crowned King of the Seven Kingdoms successful the aftermath of King Viserys I Targaryen’s death.
Tom Glynn-Carney arsenic Aegon II Targaryen. (HBO)
King Viserys had antecedently anointed his eldest child, Princess Rhaenrya, arsenic his successor. His determination was met with disapproval by galore implicit the thought of a pistillate ruler. After lingering ungraded implicit the legitimacy of her archetypal 3 children, Rhaenrya near King’s Landing for Dragonstone. By the extremity of the season, she had married Prince Daemon Targaryen, her uncle, and had 3 much children. Tragically, Rhaenyra and Daemon’s girl was stillborn.
The play 1 finale acceptable the Dance of the Dragons successful motion. Rhaenyra’s son, Lucerys Velaryon, was sent to Storm’s End arsenic an envoy for the Blacks to rise enactment for Rhaenyra’s assertion to the throne. While successful Storm’s End, helium crossed paths with Aemond Targaryen. Aemond had agelong held a grudge against Lucerys for taking retired his eye erstwhile they were kids. Aemond taunted Lucerys portion connected dragonback successful the last moments of the finale, and Vhagar accidentally ate Lucerys and his dragon, Arrax.
Ewan Mitchell arsenic Aemond Targaryen. (HBO)
If House of the Dragon play 2 continues to travel the timeline of Fire & Blood, things are astir to get very dicey successful Westeros. Here are immoderate of the cardinal moments and a important quality to look guardant to:
Blood & Cheese
Blood and Cheese volition inevitably beryllium 1 of the astir shocking moments successful House of the Dragon history. As told successful Fire & Blood, Blood and Cheese’s actions were a nonstop effect to Lucerys’ death. Blood, a butcher, and Cheese, a ratcatcher, were hired by Daemon to termination Prince Jaehaerys, King Aegon II’s firstborn lad and his heir to the Iron Throne.
Blood and Cheese broke into the Red Keep and held Alicent, Helaena, and her 3 children captive. The captors forced Helaena to take which of her sons, Jaehaerys oregon Maelor, would die. Helaena offered her ain life, but they refused. She yet chose her youngest, Maelor, to die, but Blood and Cheese killed Jaehaerys instead.
Battle astatine Rook’s Rest
While there’s nary authoritative connection astir however acold into the Dance of the Dragons play 2 volition get, it’s apt to diagnostic the Battle astatine Rook’s Rest. This was a cardinal conflict successful the Dance that ended successful Rhaenys’ decease and Aegon II getting severely injured.
Cregan Stark
At the extremity of the archetypal season, Rhaenyra’s oldest son, Jaehaerys, was sent to Winterfell to conscionable with Cregan Stark. During Jace’s clip astatine Winterfell, helium and Cregan formed a adjacent bond. Cregan volition beryllium a important fig down the road.
House Of The Dragon Season 2 Cast
The main characters of House of the Dragon play 1 volition beryllium backmost successful play 2. This includes Emma D’Arcy arsenic Rhaenrya Targaryen, Matt Smith arsenic Daemon Targaryen, Olivia Cooke arsenic Alicent Hightower, Tom Glynn-Carney arsenic Aegon II Targaryen, Ewan Mitchell arsenic Aemond Targaryen, Harry Collett arsenic Jacaerys Velaryon, Fabien Frankel arsenic Criston Cole, Rhys Ifans arsenic Otto Hightower, Steve Toussaint arsenic Corlys Velaryon, Eve Best arsenic Rhaenys Targaryen, Matthew Needham arsenic Larys Strong, Sonoya Mizuno arsenic Mysaria, Elliot Tittensor arsenic Erryk Cargyll, Luke Tittensor arsenic Arryk Cargyll, Bethany Antonia arsenic Baela Targaryen, and Phoebe Campbell arsenic Rhaena Targaryen. Phia Saban and Jefferson Hall volition besides instrumentality arsenic Helaena Targaryen and Ser Tyland Lannister.
Olivia Cooke arsenic Alicent Hightower. (HBO)
Gayle Rankin volition play Alys Rivers. She’s supposedly a bastard kid of Lord Lyonel Strong and a witch. She comes romantically progressive with Aemond Targaryen. Simon Russell Beale volition play Ser Simon Strong, Lord Larys Strong’s great-uncle. Freddie Fox volition play Ser Gwayne Hightower, Otto Hightower’s lad and Queen Alicent’s brother. Finally, Abubakar Salim has joined the formed arsenic Alyn of Hull, a cardinal subordinate going guardant who is allegedly Corlys Velaryon’s bastard son.
The relation of Cregan Stark has not been officially formed yet. However, fans person theorized that Vikings: Valhalla prima Leo Suter whitethorn person been formed arsenic Cregan due to the fact that Fabien and Emma followed him connected Instagram. HBO has not confirmed immoderate casting quality yet.
The archetypal fractional of House of the Dragon play 1 featured breakout stars Milly Alcock and Emily Carey arsenic young Rhaenyra and Alicent. When the amusement flashed guardant 10 years, Emma and Olivia took implicit the roles.
Showrunner Ryan Condal revealed that Milly and Emily volition not beryllium seen successful flashbacks successful the 2nd season, but helium isn’t ruling retired a instrumentality successful the future. “[They] are not a portion of the communicative that we’re telling yet,” helium told Variety. “That’s not a happening that we’re doing close now.”
Behind the scenes, there’s been a large displacement going into play 2. Director Miguel Sapochnik, the show’s co-showrunner successful play 1, stepped down up of the 2nd season. He volition inactive service arsenic an enforcement shaper moving forward. Alan Taylor, who directed respective Game of Thrones episodes, has joined the amusement arsenic an enforcement shaper and is acceptable to nonstop respective play 2 episodes, according to THR.
Will There Be House Of The Dragon Season 3?
HBO is already “mulling a greenish airy for a 3rd season” of House of the Dragon, according to Deadline. The originative squad is looking for House of the Dragon to tally 3 oregon 4 seasons and has been moving connected what stories and those large battles to see successful which season. Season 3 is reportedly already “mapped out,” and the web is “seriously considering” moving guardant with it sooner alternatively than later.
Harry Collett arsenic Jacaerys Velaryon. (HBO)
A “portion of the plot” was primitively acceptable for play 2, including a large battle, but is present moving into play 3. That large conflict is apt the Battle Above the God’s Eye, an epic face-off betwixt Daemon and Aemond. As of close now, it’s looking similar House of the Dragon volition tally for a full of 4 seasons.
George antecedently said that helium wanted to beryllium capable to archer the full communicative of the Dance of the Dragons crossed 4 seasons. “It is going to instrumentality 4 afloat seasons of 10 episodes each to bash justness to the Dance of the Dragons, from commencement to finish,” the writer and amusement co-creator wrote connected his blog successful October 2022.
