‘Sport of Thrones’ Prequel Trailer for ‘Home of the Dragon’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Dragons have returned to HBO.

A brand new trailer for the long-awaited Sport of Thrones prequel sequence Home of the Dragon has been launched (beneath).

The sequence is about 200 years earlier than the occasions within the authentic sequence, which grew to become HBO’s greatest hit ever and probably the most Emmy-winning drama of all time.

The brand new sequence is from creator George R.R. Martin (primarily based on his e book Fireplace & Blood) and co-creators and showrunners Ryan Condal (Colony) and Miguel Sapochnik (Finch).

Dragon stars Paddy Considine (Peaky Blinders) as King Viserys Targaryen, Olivia Cooke (Prepared Participant One) as Alicent Hightower, Emma D’Arcy (Wanderlust) as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Matt Smith (Physician Who) as Prince Daemon Targaryen.

HBO is technically calling the brand new footage a teaser trailer regardless that the community beforehand launched an official teaser trailer in October and this clip is extra in depth.

The sequence, premiering Aug. 21, is a significant initiative for HBO, which hopes to recapture a few of the magic of Sport of Thrones, which represented greater than $1 billion in income throughout its run from 2011 to 2019. The corporate additionally has a number of different prequel initiatives set on this planet of Westeros in numerous levels of improvement, and Home of the Dragon performing properly can be a great signal that GoT may be turned from a singular hit sequence right into a franchise.

There are some headwinds, nevertheless, because the content material market has grown way more crowded lately, fantasy exhibits are way more plentiful (Netflix’s The Witcher, Amazon’s Wheel of Time) and the sequence will likely be going head-to-head with one other main fantasy launch: Amazon’s big-budget The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy, which premieres simply 12 days after Dragon. Nonetheless, the GoT model is formidable, and provided that HBO has already scrapped one expensive false begin (a unique Thrones prequel venture starring Naomi Watts, which shot a pilot in 2019), the community has demonstrated a resolve to get its follow-up proper.

The Hollywood Reporter beforehand requested Sapochnik about how the upcoming drama’s look, really feel and tone will differ from the unique sequence.

“I believe we had been very respectful of what the unique present is,” Sapochnik mentioned. “It wasn’t damaged, so we’re not attempting to reinvent the wheel. Home of the Dragon has its personal tone that can evolve and emerge over the course of the present. However first, it’s essential to pay respects and homage to the unique sequence, which was fairly groundbreaking. We’re standing on the shoulders of that present and we’re solely right here due to that present. So an important factor for us to do is to respect that present as a lot as potential and attempt to complement it moderately than reinvent it. And I used to be concerned in making the unique present, so I really feel like that’s been helpful. Like, I’m not arriving going, ‘Let’s change every part! Let’s do a unique coloration palette!’ No, I fairly like the colour palette.

“That mentioned, we will’t say, ‘Effectively, after we did Thrones, we did it this means …’” he added. “When you begin each sentence with that, you’ve misplaced. That is one thing else, and must be one thing else. It’s a unique crew, completely different individuals, completely different tone. Hopefully, it will likely be seen as one thing else. Nevertheless it should earn that — it gained’t occur in a single day. Hopefully, followers will get pleasure from it for the factor that it’s. We’ll be fortunate if we ever come near what the unique present was, so we’re simply placing our heads down and getting on with it and hoping what we give you is worthy of getting a Sport of Thrones title.”