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HBO Sets August Premiere Date For Game of Thrones Prequel Series

By Oreoritse Tariemi

31 March 2022   |   1:40 pm

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The Targaryens are returning in House of The Dragon, the prequel for the famed TV series Game of Thrones.  HBO announced August 21 as the premiere date for House of The Dragon on Wednesday and revealed a new poster for the series and additional images from the show. Set two centuries before the events of GOT, the new ten-episode prequel…

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The Targaryens are returning in House of The Dragon, the prequel for the famed TV series Game of Thrones. 

HBO announced August 21 as the premiere date for House of The Dragon on Wednesday and revealed a new poster for the series and additional images from the show.

Set two centuries before the events of GOT, the new ten-episode prequel series shows how the House of Targaryen entered a bitter and brutal civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons — presaging the beginning of the end of the ruling family of Westeros.

The new series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan J. Condal (“Colony”) is based on Martin’s novel Fire & Blood.

The House of The Dragon cast includes Paddy Considine (as King Viserys I), Emmy D’Arcy (as Princess Rhaenrya, Viserys’ first child and his heir apparent), Matt Smith (as Prince Daemon, Viserys’ younger brother), Rhys Ifans (as Ser Otto Hightower, the Hand of the King), Olivia Cooke (as Lady Alicent Hightower, Otto’s daughter) and Fabien Frankel (as Ser Criston Cole, a knight with eyes for Rhaenrya).

The show will also costar Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Sonoya Mizuno, Ryan Corr, Jefferson Hall, David Horovitch, Graham McTavish, Matthew Needham, Bill Paterson and Gavin Spokes.

The August 21 premiere date of the series gives the show a head start of other fantasy series expected to be released this year, including The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power which Amazon Prime Video announced in August 2021 that The Rings of Power would debut on the streamer on September 2.

Back in February, Martin announced on his blog that shooting Season 1 of “House of the Dragon” had wrapped.

“I have seen rough cuts of a few of them, and I’m loving them,” Martin wrote. “Of course, a lot more work needs to be done. Special effects, color timing, score, all the post-production work. But the writing, the directing, the acting all look terrific. I hope you will like them as much as I do.”

See more first-look photos from the series:

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Steve Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon, Eve Best as Princess Rhaenys Targaryen-HBO

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Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower-HBO

Paddy Considine as King Viserys Targaryen-hbo

Sonoya Mizuno as Mysaria -HBO

Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen -HBO

Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole - HBO

Emma D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen -HBO

Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower -HBO

Milly Alcock as Young Rhaenyra, Emily Carey as Young Alicent -HBO