Sport of Thrones spin-off Home of the Dragon has lastly been given a launch date on HBO Max – and followers don’t have lengthy to attend for Westeros’ return.
The ten-episode sequence, based mostly on George R. R. Martin’s 2018 novel Fireplace and Blood, will start streaming within the US and different HBO Max territories on August 21. These within the UK will be capable of entry episodes similtaneously their US counterparts (on the morning of August 22) on Sky Atlantic and Now TV.
Home of the Dragon will inform the backstory of the Targaryen dynasty, with occasions happening 200 years previous to the occasions of the unique present. Followers have been handled to an ominous teaser trailer for the sequence again in 2021, however we’d anticipate a full-length trailer to drop imminently, given the latest information confirming its launch date.
Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Paddy Considine, Rhys Ifans, Emma D’Arcy, Sonoya Mizuno and Steve Toussaint are all set to characteristic within the sequence as a part of an enormous ensemble forged, although you will discover a extra detailed rundown of all of the present’s characters in our devoted hub.
Previous to at this time’s announcement, we solely knew for positive that Home of the Dragon can be arriving a while in 2022. In a February weblog publish, creator and government producer George R. R. Martin wrote: “So when will you get to see [House of the Dragon], you ask? When will the dragons dance? I want I may let you know. Plenty of work stays to be carried out […] and Covid makes planning tough. This spring? Unlikely. Perhaps summer season? May very well be. Fall? Who is aware of? You’ll know once we do.”
By the sounds of it, then, August is as early as we may have hoped to see Home of the Dragon on our screens. In the identical publish, Martin additionally mentioned that “the writing, the directing [and] the appearing” of the present’s first few episodes “seems to be terrific” – so we’re excited to lastly see what HBO has been engaged on since canning its pricey Bloodmoon sequence (a Sport of Thrones spin-off that did not make it previous a pilot).
Along with information of Home of the Dragon’s launch date, HBO has additionally shared a handful of latest pictures from the upcoming present. Test them out under:
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The primary of the above pictures exhibits Steve Toussaint’s Lord Corlys Velaryon embracing his spouse, Eve Finest’s Princess Rhaenys Velaryon. The previous character is named the Sea Snake, possessing the most important navy in Westeros, whereas the latter rides a dragon often called the Pink Queen.
The second picture wants no rationalization: it is Paddy Considine’s King Viserys wanting brooding in a slightly fetching Targaryen wig.
Sport of Thrones followers actually are in for a deal with come August 21.
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