6th October, 2021
HBO has released its first teaser for the “Game of Thrones” prequel, titled “House Of The Dragon”.
Giving fans their very first glimpse of footage of the highly-anticipated prequel, the short video features star Matt Smith as he broods on a dark beach.
Matt plays Prince Daemon Targaryen and has been filming in Kynance Cove in Cornwall – the setting of the beach in the trailer.
‘Gods, kings, fire and blood. Dreams didn’t make us kings – dragons did!,’ Matt is heard saying in the teaser
Characters, such as Milly Alcock as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, and Theo Nate who portray Laenor Velaryon were seeing in the teaser.
The teaser also features a pair of knights on horseback, battling one another in a violent clash.
The end of the teaser sees Princess Rhaenyra as she approaches the infamous Iron Throne, from the previous series.
Based on Martin’s Fire & Blood, the series, which is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, tells the story of House Targaryen of Dragon.
Considine plays King Viserys Targaryen, Cooke stars as Alicent Hightower, D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen and Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon, known as the Sea Snake, who becomes Hand to Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons.
The stage play produced by British playwright Duncan MacMillan and directed Dominic Cooke, will reportedly center on a gathering set a decade before the events in the epic HBO television series based on George RR Martin’s novels.
GOT is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is A Game of Thrones.