With the second season of House of the Dragon less than two months away, HBO is stoking the fire by releasing a brand new trailer for the series’ anticipated return, which asks the cast to defend their council as the rightful heir to the Iron Throne.
House of the Dragon takes place nearly 200 years before Game of Thrones and follows the famous Dance of Dragons, a civil war within the Targaryen family between Rhaenyra Targaryen and her half-brother Aegon as they both vie for the Iron Throne and the right to rule the Seven Kingdoms per their late father’s wishes. The battle divides the realm like no other conflict and has terrible long-lasting consequences for the realm and the Targaryen dynasty.
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House of the Dragon features a cast that includes the returning Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, Rhys Ifans, Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall and Matthew Needham, along with new additions Clinton Liberty as Addam of Hull, Jamie Kenna as Ser Alfred Broome, Kieran Bew as Hugh, Tom Bennett as Ulf, Tom Taylor as Lord Cregan Stark, Vincent Regan as Ser Rickard Thorne, Abubakar Salim as Alyn of Hull, Gayle Rankin as Alys Rivers, Freddie Fox as Ser Gwayne Hightower and Simon Russell Beale as Ser Simon Strong. Check out the trailer below…
Westeros is on the brink of a bloody civil war with the Green and Black Councils fighting for King Aegon and Queen Rhaenyra, respectively. As each side believes theirs to be the rightful seat on the Iron Throne, the Green and Black trailers reflect those two perspectives in separate yet complementary halves of the same story. For global audiences, ‘All Must Choose’ their side of House Targaryen as the realm fractures in Season 2.
House of the Dragon season 2 is set to premiere June 16th.