“Struggle is coming” to Home of the Dragon‘s second season.
Home of the Dragon season 2 will premiere on June 16, almost two years after the primary season aired on HBO. In a brand new cowl story for Selection, collection star Matt Smith and showrunner Ryan Condal supplied contemporary perception into what followers can anticipate after we return to Westeros.
“I believe the tempo will really feel extra like constructing momentum,” Condal instructed the outlet. “Season 1 felt breakneck as a result of you had been leaping time intervals, whereas season 2 feels such as you mild a fuse in episode 1 and watch it go — and at factors, little fees go off.”
Season 1 resulted in dramatic style, with everybody in Westeros seemingly declaring their allegiance to both King Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) or Princess Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy). Within the first trailers for season 2, viewers are urged to “Select a Aspect” between the Black Council (a.ok.a. Crew Rhaenyra) and the Inexperienced Council (a.ok.a. Crew Aegon).
“The Targaryen who sits on the Iron Throne isn’t just a king or a queen, they’re a protector of the realm,” the trailer begins. By its conclusion, Rhaenyra quietly warns: “Struggle is coming and neither of us might win.”
Tensions can even proceed to construct between Rhaenyra and her uncle-turned-husband, Daemon, performed by Smith.
“We begin to see the masks slip,” Smith teased to Selection. “Life turns into harder, and he will get comfortable across the edges. He begins to unravel.”
Home of the Dragon is predicated on George R.R. Martin’s novel, Hearth & Blood, which is a historical past e book recounting notable occasions in Westeros within the 200 years earlier than the unique collection. HOTD will proceed to discover the in-fighting and intrigue surrounding Home Targaryen in its upcoming episodes.
“We now have the benefit that the e book is right here, it is completed, and we all know the place the curtain closes on this specific chapter within the Targaryen historical past,” Condal instructed Selection, suggesting that present writers do not plan to stray too removed from the supply materials.
Learn on for every little thing we learn about what’s to come back in season 2, from new solid members to episode depend and every little thing else in between.
Plot and Timeline
After spending most of season 1 establishing the primary gamers within the battle of succession to comply with the dying of King Viserys (performed by Paddy Considine, who will certainly be missed), season 2 will inch the collection nearer and nearer to warfare.
“We’ll get to the spectacle,” co-creator and Condal beforehand instructed The Occasions. (His co-showrunner, Miguel Sapochnik, is just not returning for season 2.) “However it’s a must to perceive these individuals’s complexities earlier than they’re thrown into warfare.”
And now that we have gotten to know the most important characters, in addition to what’s at stake, he mentioned, “[Season] two will hit the rhythms individuals got here to anticipate from the center run of Sport of Thrones, however it’ll have been earned, and viewers will really feel the tragedies as a result of we put the work in.”
In line with the GOT fansite, Winter Is Coming, there are a number of large occasions coming. “With out stepping into an excessive amount of element, there might be a conspiracy inside the Purple Hold, Rhaenys Targaryen will mount Meleys once more, and there might be a seek for extra dragonriders,” the fansite said.
This, maybe, attributable to a rising variety of dragons.
“You are going to meet 5 new dragons,” Condal teased to THR in March 2023.
As for Daemon, the collection’ large unhealthy turned web boyfriend, anticipate for lots extra exploration into his dynamic together with his niece and present spouse, Rhaenyra. “And proper now, we’re writing season two and determining, what’s the nature of his relationship with Rhaenyra?” author Sara Hess instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “There are a lot of interpretations [in Fire & Blood] to that.”
In his Could 2024 interview with Selection, Smith mentioned that Daemon might be “a lot weaker” within the upcoming season after shedding Rhaenyra’s belief.
“We undoubtedly meet Daemon at a degree of disaster on this scenario, and in some ways, it is a totally different model of him,” Smith defined.
“In his perverse manner — and it’s deeply perverse — Daemon thinks he’s doing the appropriate factor,” Smith mentioned of his character’s actions. “And generally he’s simply doing it as a result of he likes that feeling of being the black sheep.”
Returning Solid and Characters
After so many deaths in season 1, there are nonetheless a shocking variety of main gamers returning for a second season. Amongst them are Rhaenyra (D’Arcy) and Daemon (Smith) and their blended household of kids, Jacaerys Valeryon, Baela and Rhaena Targaryen in addition to the recently-born twins Aegon and Viserys. Contemplating how younger most of the youngsters are in season 1, it is possible that the collection will age up these characters and recast them within the new episodes.
Then there’s Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke), her father, Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), her youngsters, Aemond (Ewan Mitchell), Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) and Helaena (Phia Saban), and her loyal servant, Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel). It is value mentioning that Alicent’s fourth little one with Viserys, Daeron, will make an look on the collection sooner or later regardless of not being talked about or seen in season 1. In line with Martin, who serves as an govt producer on the collection, “their youngest son Daeron is down in Oldtown, we simply didn’t have the time to work him on this season.”
Of the remaining grownup Valeryons, Princess Rhaenys (Eve Greatest) and Corlys aka the Sea Snake (Steve Toussaint), will return regardless of so many losses to their household, together with Laenor (John Macmillan), who was revealed to nonetheless be alive after Rhaenyra and Daemon organized for his assassination in order that they may get married. However regardless of being seen rowing away on a ship, very similar to Gendry Baratheon (Joe Dempsie) in Sport of Thrones, it is unclear if and when he’ll make a return to the collection.
Moreover, different characters launched in season 1, Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno), the Arryk Cargyll twins — Arryk (Luke Tittensor) and Erryk (Elliott Tittensor) — in addition to Tyland and Jason Lannister (each performed by Jefferson Corridor), are all anticipated to be again.
As for these two Lannisters, anticipate extra from them because the collection progresses, with Corridor beforehand revealing to ET that “this can be a story in regards to the Targaryens. And the Lannisters do play a powerful position in it, however not from the offset.” He requested for followers “to be affected person so far as that’s involved. As a result of they’re launched to the story… and they’re supporting that story. That’s to not say they don’t have a really robust, pivotal position inside it as time goes on.”
In April 2023, HBO confirmed that the returning solid members embrace Smith, Cooke, D’Arcy, Greatest, Toussaint, Frankel, Mitchell, Glynn-Carney, Mizuno and Ifans are all again as collection regulars for season 2.
Extra returning solid members embrace Corridor, Saban, Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell and Matthew Needham.
New Solid and Characters
As for brand spanking new solid members, just a few names have been revealed thus far. ET has confirmed that Simon Russell Beale, Freddie Fox, Gayle Rankin and Abubakar Salim have joined the sprawling ensemble.
Beale will play Ser Simon Sturdy, the Castellan of Harrenhal and great-uncle to Lord Larys (Needham), sharing many scenes with Daemon this season.
Fox has been added as Ser Gwayne Hightower, the Son of Otto Hightower and brother to Queen Alicent in addition to the uncle to King Aegon, Queen Helaena and Prince Aemond.
Moreover, Rankin will seem as Alys Rivers, a healer and resident of Harrenhal whereas Salim will play Alyn of Hull, a sailor within the Velaryon fleet who served within the Stepstones marketing campaign.
As for Elizabeth Olsen, the actress addressed rumors that she is headed to Westeros by telling ET, “Dream casting is enjoyable, yeah, however I heard it was, like, introduced although, which is weirder… I by no means heard of such a factor.”
That being mentioned, Olsen can be pleased to be part of it if one thing got here up. “I imply, certain, yeah. [I’d like do to] something that is value telling, that is a superb story, that is progressive, that is nice, nice characters,” she supplied.
Return and Premiere Date
HBO introduced on April 11, 2023 that filming had formally commenced at Leavesden Studios within the U.Ok., with Condal sharing, “Home of the Dragon has returned… All of your favourite characters will quickly be conspiring on the council tables, marching with their armies, and using their dragons into battle. We won’t wait to share what we have now in retailer.”
Whereas there have been hopes for an additional 10-episode season, ET has since discovered that season 2 will include eight episodes merely due to what the story merited.
HBO introduced in March that the present will return on June 16, 2024.
The Trailers
Watch the full-length trailer right here:
The Inexperienced Trailer right here:
And the Black Trailer right here:
Home of the Dragon season 1 is now streaming on Max.
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