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The beginning of House of the Dragon will date back to roughly 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones. Gavin Spokes (She Stoops to Conquer, Utopia, Warrior Kings) is Lord Lyonel Strong, Lord of Harrenhal and the King's Master of Laws, and Matthew Needham (Stutterer) is set to portray Larys Strong, son of Lyonel Strong. Bill Paterson (Amazing Grace, Miss Potter) is playing Lord Lyman Beesbury, Lord of Honeyholt and Master of Coin on King Viserys's small council. Graham McTavish (The Hobbit, Netflix's Castlevania, Preacher) has been cast as Ser Harrold Westerling, loyal member of the Kingsguard. The latest round of casting news also reveled that Ryan CorrВ (Wolf Creek 2, The Water Diviner) has been cast as Ser Harwin 'Breakbones' Strong, who HBO describes as 'the strongest man in the Seven Kingdoms.' Meanwhile, David Horovitch (Miss Marple) will play Grand Maester Mellos, one of King Viserys's close advisors. HBO recently cast its first Lannisters, with returning Game of Thrones actor Jefferson Hall joining House of the Dragon as twins Jason Lannister and Ser Tyland Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock andВ Hand of the KingВ forВ Aegon III Targaryen, respectively. We expect even more silver-haired dragonriders to take the reign as casting details continue opening up in the (presumably) near future.

#Game of thrones series

However, as the original series showed us, good men don't always make good leaders.ДЇire & Blood features a lineup of Targaryen rulers from Aegon I to his sons, Aenys I and Maegor I, all the way up to Aegon III. Viserys is chosen by the Lords of Westeros to succeed the Iron Throne and apparently wants to innocently carry on his grandfather's legacy. In October, the series' lead was announced: Paddy Considine as King Viserys I, an ancestor of everyone's favorite Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen. I donвЂ™t think theyвЂ™d be in their right minds to include any of that any more.вЂќ 'I was lucky enough to read the script before, and it has changed a lot from the first few seasons. вЂњI wouldnвЂ™t feel comfortable in being a part of anything that has just egregious graphic violence towards women for no reason whatsoever, just because they want it to be tantalizing in a way that gets viewers,' she said.

#Game of thrones tv

Though, as Game of Thrones proved, TV series aren't always 100 per cent faithful to their source work.В Interestingly, young versions of two of these characters have been cast вЂ“ Milly Alcock has joined the lineup as a younger version of Rhaenyra Targaryen, while Emily Carey will be the young Alicent Hightower.Д¬ooke has spoken a little about the series, saying there will not be any gratuitous violence against women, which Thrones was accused of on multiple occasions.

Martin's Fire & Blood, the novel on which House of the Dragon is based.Д®xpect to see these characters play major roles in the events of House of the Dragon, and given their lasting presence in the book, it's likely we'll see them across several seasons. The two Targaryen royals play key roles in the climactic Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryen civil war that takes up a large chunk of George R.R. Then we've got Emma D'Arcy and Matt Smith, who will play Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Prince Daemon Targaryen respectively, while Olivia Cooke has signed on to play Alicent Hightower. Mizuno, meanwhile, will play Mysaria, a woman who arrived in Westeros with nothing, but rose through the ranks to become the most trusted ally of Prince Daemon Targaryen, the heir to the throne.

Ifans will play Otto Hightower, the loyal Hand of the King, while Best will be Princess Rhaenys Velaryon, a dragonrider and wife to Lord Corlys Velaryon. Toussaint will play Lord Corlys Velaryon, a powerful lord of House Velaryon (a Valyrian bloodline as old as House Targaryen) and the most notorious nautical adventurer in the history of Westeros with the world's largest navy. Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans, Eve Best, and Sonoya Mizuno also recently joined the project.