This Tuesday, HBO presented a first preview of its new series, House of the Dragon, which is a prequel to the hit game of Thrones, whose premiere is planned for sometime in 2022.
Here, the story moves 200 years before what happened in the original series, based on the novels by George RR Martin, and the plot will revolve around the Targaryen house, the ancestors of Daenerys and the powerful dynasty that ruled the Seven Kingdoms.
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Although the trailer does not say much about the course that events will take in this new series, the truth is that everything looks and feels very much like Game of Thrones; so the determining point for the success of the series will be the way in which it manages to link a new set of stories, whose development and outcome do not disappoint the fans, as happened with the end of the original series, which left many a very bad taste in the mouth.
Throughout the trailer, King Viserys Targaryen appears (Paddy Considine), the ruling king of Westeros, father of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and brother of prince daemon targaryen (Matt Smith).
In Martin’s novel, Fire & Blood, it explains how Raenyra, Viserys’ first daughter, was groomed from childhood to become the first queen of Westeros. and a dragonrider, and how her eventual rule would be challenged by the men around her, who sought to prevent Viserys’s wishes for Raenyra as his heir from being fulfilled.
This time, behind the series are not David Benioff and DB Weiss, the authors of the original series, because those responsible will be the scriptwriter Ryan Condal, the director Miguel Sapochnik –Who is familiar with the Game of Thrones universe having been the director of some episodes– and George RR Martin himself.
Between the protagonists, they emphasize Matt Smith, in the paper of the prince Daemon Targaryen; Olivia Cooke, as Queen Alicent Hightower; Paddy Considine, who plays King Viserys Targaryen; and Emmy D’Arcy, who plays Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen.