“Home of the Dragon” is asking viewers to choose a aspect in Season 2: Rhaenyra’s black faction or Alicent’s inexperienced workforce?
HBO dropped two distinctive trailers Thursday for Season 2, which premieres on June 16. One trailer focuses on Rhaenrya, Prince Daemon and their forces on Dragonstone, and the opposite is centered on the King’s Touchdown workforce of Alicent, her father Otto and her youngsters King Aegon and Prince Aemond. Happening 200 years earlier than the occasions of “Recreation of Thrones,” Season 2 of “Home of the Dragon” will formally mark the beginning of the Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryen civil conflict.
Within the wake of the Season 1 finale, by which Aemond murders Rhaenyra’s son Lucerys and his dragon, conflict is imminent in Westeros. The blacks and the greens are each gathering their forces, dragons and new allies to face off in a bloody, fiery battle to the dying. In King’s Touchdown, younger King Aegon is doubling down on his declare to the Iron Throne, which his half-sister Rhaenyra views as her rightful inheritance from their late father. The trailers additionally tease a return to Winterfell, the snowy house of the Starks that’s dominated over by Cregan Stark within the prequel.
The fantasy drama collection is predicated on creator George R.R. Martin’s guide “Fireplace & Blood,” which particulars the historical past of Home Targaryen. Season 1 adopted Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) in her struggle to be named the chosen inheritor of King Viserys I (Patty Considine) and the lead-up to the conflict of succession between the Targaryens.
The returning solid contains Emma D’Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen, Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen, Ewan Mitchell as Aemond Targaryen, Eve Finest as Rhaena Targaryen, Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower, Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon, Fabien Frankel as Criston Cole and Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon Targaryen.
New faces becoming a member of the collection embrace Tom Taylor as Lord Cregan Stark, Clinton Liberty as Addam of Hull, Jamie Kenna as Ser Alfred Broome, Kieran Bew as Hugh Hammer, Tom Bennett as Ulf and Vincent Regan as Ser Rickard Thorne. Different newcomers are Abubakar Salim as Alyn of Hull, Gayle Rankin as Alys Rivers, Freddie Fox as Ser Gwayne Hightower and Simon Russell Beale as Ser Simon Sturdy. The solid additionally contains Sonoya Mizuno, Harry Collett, Phoebe Campbell, Bethany Antonia, Phia Saban, Jefferson Corridor and Matthew Needham.
Episode 1 of Season 1 drew practically 10 million viewers, marking HBO’s greatest collection premiere in historical past. The ten-episode first season of “Home of the Dragon” aired from Aug. 21 to Oct. 23, 2022.
Martin is the co-creator and government producer. Ryan Condal is co-creator, showrunner and government producer. Sara Hess, Alan Taylor, Melissa Bernstein, Kevin de la Noy, Loni Peristere and Vince Gerardis are government producers.
Watch the trailers beneath: