Who isn’t back?īesides the cast members who aged out or died over the course of season 1, the major absences going into House of the Dragon season 2 is actually behind the camera: Miguel Sapochnik, the Thrones mainstay director who stepped up to co-run House of the Dragon with writer Ryan Condal, announced in late August that he would not return for season 2. So expect Matt Smith as Daemon, Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, Emma D’Arcy as Rhaenyra, Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon, Eve Best as Rhaenys, Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon II, and Ewan Mitchell as Aemond Targaryen to all be back and ready to clash.Īs for new characters, Martin has already confirmed one: Daeron Targaryen, Viserys and Alicent’s fourth child, who was apparently down in Oldtown throughout season 1 and “we just did not have the time to work him in this season,” Martin said in a blog from early October. Martin’s source material suggests that future seasons won’t be taking the kind of leaps in time that defined season 1.

While HBO has yet to confirm the actor lineup for season 2, George R.R. Who’s back in the House of the Dragon season 2 cast? Photo: Ollie Upton/HBO However, scripts for season 2 of House of the Dragon have already been complete for some time, so production on the series will commence as planned. Martin wrote on his not-a-blog website that he supports the strikes and that the writer’s room of the upcoming Game of Thrones-spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight is on hiatus until the strike is over. It will not be impacted, according to Martin himself. Will House of the Dragon season 2 be impacted by the writer’s strike? Based on what it takes to put a season’s worth of dragon war together, House of the Dragon season 2 is likely arriving in 2024. A recent report by Spanish newspaper Hoy suggested that the production would return to the King’s Landing stand-in city of Cáceres in spring 2023, with filming on the new season commencing around April.

HBO is notorious for premiering first seasons of major series, then going dormant for a full two years - see Westworld - and the gap between House of the Dragon season 1 and 2 could be substantial. Twenty million viewers of the premiere across all platforms was enough to prove that Game of Thrones fever hadn’t diminished since the 2019 finale of the flagship series. House of the Dragon received a second-season greenlight way back in August 2022, after its first episode. Dig deeper into House of the Dragon season 1

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