House of the Dragon
- Release Date22 August 2022
- GenreDrama, Fantasy
- CastPaddy Considine, Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, Sonoya Mizuno, Rhys Ifans
- DirectorMiguel Sapochnik, Greg Yaitanes, Clare Kilner, Geeta Vasant Patel
- MusicRamin Djawadi
- ProducerRyan J. Condal, George R.R. Martin, Miguel Sapochnik, Vince Gerardis, Sara Lee Hess, Ron Schmidt
- ProductionWarner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
- Certificate18+
House of the Dragon premiere: When and where to watch
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The three year long wait of Game of Thrones fans will finally come to an end on Monday as the show’s much anticipated prequel House of the Dragon will begin streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar.
House of the Dragon is based on portions of George RR Martin’s 2018 novel Fire and Blood. Created by Martin and Ryan J Condal, the show is set two hundred years before Game of Thrones and focuses on House Targaryen. It will chart the Targaryen war of succession, also called the “Dance of the Dragons”.
House of the Dragon stars Paddy Considine, Emma D’Arcy, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke and Steve Toussaint among others. The show began filming in 2020 in the United Kingdom. The weekly inaugural season comprises 10 episodes.
Even though the creators of Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon are different, fans are expecting to be enthralled by the upcoming show in a similar fashion to the original series.
House of the Dragon, also marketed as,Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon, is an upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series. It was ordered by HBO in October 2019. The prequel goes back approximately 200 years to center on the beginning of the end of the once all-powerful dynasty that dominated the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik serve as showrunners and executive producers. George R.R. Martin, Vince Gerardis, Sara Hess, and Ron Schmidt also serve as executive producers, with Greg Yaitanes as co-executive producer. The first season will premiere on August 21, 2022.
In May 2022, Redanian Intelligence reported that HBO had quietly renewed the series for a second season and that writing had already begun.
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House of the Dragon’ S1E1 review: Bewitching eye candy promises more
As the first episode, The Heirs of the Dragons, is all about establishing the different players in the House Targaryen, there is not as much action and unfortunately not as much dragon. Based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood (2018), the show focuses on the ruin of House Targaryen and the subsequent war of succession.
There is the kindly king Viserys (Paddy Considine), who worries about not having a son to inherit the Iron throne. Princess Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), the firstborn, is accomplished, the realm’s delight, and would have been the perfect heir but for her gender. Viserys’ younger brother, Daemon (a glorious teeth-gnashing Matt Smith), is battle-hardened and ambitious. He is the heir presumptive, but has the throw of the coin fallen on the wrong side? His closest ally and lover is the dancer Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno).
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Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), the Hand of the King, is strongly opposed to Daemon. Otto’s daughter, Alicent (Olivia Cooke), is a good friend to Rhaenyra, apart from being the most beautiful woman in the Seven Kingdoms. Rhaenys, the Queen that Never Was (she was passed over for Viserys) and her husband, Lord Corlys (Steve Toussaint), the head of House Velaryon, seem to be biding their time.
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Starting with the crowning of Viserys, The Heirs of the Dragon has Viserys convincing his councillors that the child his queen, Aemma (Sian Brooke), is carrying is a boy. Aemma tells her daughter, Rhaenyra, who would rather be fighting battles on her dragon Syrax, that for women, the battlefield is the childbed. Her words are prescient considering the difficult birth.
Tragedy, dashed ambitions, a surprise announcement, and a banishing, pepper The Heirs of the Dragon, tempered with the obligatory jousts, couplings, nudity, decapitations, profanity and soaring dragons. The costumes are exquisite, while the music (Ramin Djawadi returns) walks the tight rope between call back and new, and CGI acceptable.
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One of the problems of House of the Dragon, like Obi-Wan Kenobi, is that we know how it ends. Just like we know Darth Vader killed Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, we know the fortunes of the House Targaryen end with mad King Aerys being killed by Jaime Lannister during the rebellion hatched by Robert Baratheon, Eddard Stark and Jon Arryn.
When Game of Thrones came out in 2011, it hewed a fresh path for fantasy. House of the Dragon follows in its wake. Whether it will be able to carve a separate identity for itself, away from the gargantuan shadow of Game of Thrones, to become its own beastie, only time and the nine subsequent episodes will tell.
House of the Dragon streams on Disney+ Hotstar from August 22