Friends of the intrigues of Westeros, we have good news: HBO has announced that production has started from season 2 of ‘House of the Dragon’, the excellent prequel to ‘Game of Thrones’. The dreaded dragon dance is coming in the new episodes.
Although they do not advance plot advances regarding what we will find in these new episodes, although we We can imagine that the war between greens and blacks is about to break out As can be read in the encyclopedic ‘Fire and Blood’, we do have here the first details of the season.
An absence in the cast
One of those is the confirmed cast, which is made up of Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, and Rhys Ifansin addition to having Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall and Matthew Needham.
The smartest of you will have noticed some notable absence. This is the case of Graham McTevish, in charge of giving life to Ser Harrold Westerling, Commander of the Royal Guard, who is not among those named. The explanation could go through a fateful fate after disobeying Otto Hightower’s (Rhys Ifans) order to take the Guard to Rocadragon in the ninth episode.
Nor are they, logically, nor Milly Alcock and Emily Carey as the young Rhaenyra and Alicent respectively.
The return of one of the greats
On the other hand, we have a return to the franchise: director Alan Taylor’sone of the veterans and regulars of ‘Game of Thrones’ who comes to the prequel to replace Michael Sapochnick, who left his duties as coshowrunner and director of the series after the first season. With Taylor they will accompany him in the script B. Welby and Ebele Tate, emerging directors.
This season 2 of ‘The House of the Dragon’ will feature ryan condal as sole showrunner. The producer assures:
“The House of the Dragon is back. We’re thrilled to be back shooting with members of the original family, as well as new talent on both sides of the camera. All your favorite characters will soon be conspiring again at the council tables, marching with their armies and riding their dragons into battle. We can’t wait to share what we have in store.”
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