Season 1 of the “Game Of Thrones” spin-off “House Of The Dragon” is over. If you are looking forward to new episodes next year, we have to disappoint you. Season 2 will probably not be released until 2024.
The first season of “House Of The Dragon” convinced with an exciting Targaryen story, but also irritated with many time jumps. Around 20 years were packed into one season, the actors and actresses changed several times. All this to tell the prequel to the great Targaryen civil war “Dance of the Dragons”, which will really get going in season 2.
However, we will probably have to wait quite a while for the new episodes. Season 2 is already confirmed, but filming will not start until early 2023 – in the film studios in the UK and also again in Spain, where scenes for King’s Landing / King’s Landing will be shot. Filming will continue until at least summer 2023, followed by the lengthy post-production process. This means that we will probably not see season 2 of “House Of The Dragon” with its ten episodes until 2024.
In season 2, the civil war really gets going. Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and her half-brother Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) both claim the Iron Throne and have had themselves crowned. Of course, however, only one party can rule the Seven Kingdoms – and so now the “Greens” behind Aegon and his mother Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and the “Blacks” behind Rhaenyra and her husband Daemon (Matt Smith) will fight for dominance, not only with force of arms, but also with dragons.
NEW FACES, NEW PLACES
We have already seen in the last two episodes of the first season that the two parties are gathering allies for the war. There were many familiar names like Stark, Baratheon and Tully – and that means that in season 2 we will also get to know many new faces from these houses, for example the Lord Cregan Stark mentioned in episode 10 (the character is already confirmed for the series, only whether it will be so far in season 2, the makers are still keeping quiet about that). So it should be back to Winterfell again.
There will be many more locations in season 2 of “House Of The Dragon” than in season 1. Showrunner Ryan Condal confirmed this to Variety. There should be a similar development as with “Game Of Thrones”: In the course of the series, the world of “House Of The Dragon” will become larger and larger. We will also get to know places that are completely new to series fans: “There will definitely be a lot of new worlds, including some that you didn’t necessarily see in the original series. “
NO MORE CAST CHANGES
The main locations would still be King’s Landing, Dragonstone and Driftmark. And the main characters will also remain the same – and most importantly, there are to be no recasts in season 2. There will be brand new characters, but the ones we already know will stay the same for now. Condal confirmed to Deadline that from now on the story will be told “in real time”, i.e. without major time jumps.
By the way, Ryan Condal will be the sole showrunner of the series from season 2. He was still in charge of season 1 together with Miguel Sapochnik, who also directed three episodes, including the episode “Driftmark”, which took a lot of criticism for its very dark images. Sapochnik will remain with the series as executive producer.
