‘Recreation 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 Recreation of Thrones prequel sequence Home of the Dragon has been launched (under).

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 writer 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 despite the fact 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 serious initiative for HBO, which hopes to recapture among the magic of Recreation 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 tasks set on the earth of Westeros in varied levels of growth, and Home of the Dragon performing properly could be signal that GoT might 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 shall 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 dear false begin (a unique Thrones prequel challenge 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 feel we have been very respectful of what the unique present is,” Sapochnik stated. “It wasn’t damaged, so we’re not making an attempt to reinvent the wheel. Home of the Dragon has its personal tone that may 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 a very powerful factor for us to do is to respect that present as a lot as attainable and attempt to complement it fairly 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 thing! Let’s do a unique colour palette!’ No, I fairly like the colour palette.

“That stated, we are able to’t say, ‘Properly, after we did Thrones, we did it this manner …’” he added. “In the event you begin each sentence with that, you’ve misplaced. That is one thing else, and needs to be one thing else. It’s a unique crew, totally different individuals, totally different tone. Hopefully, will probably be seen as one thing else. Nevertheless it should earn that — it gained’t occur in a single day. Hopefully, followers will take pleasure in 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 provide you with is worthy of getting a Recreation of Thrones title.”