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House of the Dragon Season 2 Set for Summer 2024; Trailer Screened

HBO & Max CEO and Chairman Casey Bloys confirmed that House of the Dragon Season 2 is set for Summer 2024 and screened the first trailer.

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  • HBO's "House of the Dragon" Season 2 confirmed for Summer 2024: HBO & Max CEO and Chairman Casey Bloys.
  • First official trailer of Season 2 screened at today's press event but no details were allowed to be released.
  • HBO's head of drama, Francesca Orsi shares that an eight-episode second season will have a more rigorous emotional arc.
  • New cast members for Season 2 including Gayle Rankin, Simon Russell Beale, Freddie Fox, and Abubakar Salim.

What better way for HBO & Max CEO and Chairman Casey Bloys to distract us from his having to explain why there were fake Twitter accounts harassing critics than with some good news regarding the second season of HBO & Showrunner Ryan Condal's House of the Dragon? During a press event earlier today, Bloys screened the first official Season 2 trailer for the media attending the event (unfortunately, no reporting on it was allowed) and confirmed that the "Game of Thrones" prequel is set to hit screens in Summer 2024 – less than two years after the first season wrapped up its run. The series avoided SAG-AFTRA & WGA strike delays, with scripts submitted before the May deadline and the cast covered under contract with UK guild Equity – not SAG-AFTRA.

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"There was some question about the narrative shape of Season 2. We were developing it with Ryan Condal and [EP] Sara Hess, and we realized that we were sort of treading water narratively in the middle of the season. So it just felt much more rigorous, more urgent emotional arc for our characters if we compressed the season. And then that also dictated how we would kick off Season ,' shared HBO's head of drama Francesca Orsi during an interview back in May, explaining why the second season was running with eight episodes instead of ten.

HBO's House of the Dragon Season 2 stars Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D'Arcy, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, and Rhys Ifans. Additional returning cast includes Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall, and Matthew Needham. Joining the cast for the second season are Gayle Rankin as Alys Rivers, Simon Russell Beale as Ser Simon Strong, Freddie Fox as Ser Gwayne Hightower, and Abubakar Salim as Alyn of Hull. Based on author & executive producer George R.R. Martin's "Fire & Blood," the prequel series is also executive produced by Condal, Sara Hess, Alan Taylor, Melissa Bernstein, Kevin de la Noy, Loni Peristere, and Vince Gerardis.

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Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.
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