HBO has released a new trailer for the upcoming spinoff series House of the Dragon.The new trailer comes on the eve of San Diego Comic-Con, where author George R. R. Martin and the cast of the series will take the stage at Hall H.
Based on Martin's Fire and Blood and developed by Martin and Ryan J. Condal for HBO, House of the Dragon is set several hundred years before the events of the Emmy-award-winning series Game of Thrones and tells the story of the rise and fall of House Targaryen. The series stars actors Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D'Arcy, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, Sonoya Mizuno, and Rhys Ifans. Martin is set to appear this Saturday along with the cast and director Miguel Sapochnik during the House of the Dragon panel at San Diego Comic-Con.
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The new trailer for House of the Dragon opens with a familiar image: the legendary Iron Throne. Sitting upon this throne is King Viserys Targaryen (Considine), who reminisces about how he conquered the throne through splintering shields and roaring dragons. We then see a dragon flying over the capitol city of Westerors, where the Targaryen family currently reigns. The House Of The Dragon trailer then takes us inside the inner workings of this kingdom, where one of King Visery's chief advisors, Ser Otto Hightower (Ifans) tells him of the need to choose an heir. However, there's just one problem: there's more than one eligible heir to the throne.
The House of the Dragon trailer continues as we are introduced to the dueling heirs. First theirs Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (D'Arcy), the King's firstborn child. However, no Queen has sat upon the throne and it is forbidden
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