House of the Dragon director Miguel Sapochnik says the team behind the long-awaited series is hoping to “give people what they want, but not in the way they’re expecting”. GameofThrones GoT
, set almost 200 years before the events of George R. R. Martin’s sweeping magnum opus, opens with an ominous promise: the only thing that could tear down the House of the Dragon ... is the House of the Dragon itself.
But in the shadow of the Iron Throne stands Viserys’ younger brother Prince Daemon , heir presumptive to the crown and champing at the bit for a slice of royal power. Beside him, Viserys’ daughter, Princess Rhaenyra , a controversial candidate to become the realm’s first queen regnant. “We’re representing a world that is in the books that is brutal and strange, and it’s a different time and a different place. So for me, this is always a sort of fictional story. I’ve no great sort of political leanings in it at all.”
Eve Best as Princess Rhaenys Velaryon, Steve Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon, Paddy Considine as King Viserys I Targaryen, Rhys Ifans as Ser Otto Hightower in House of the Dragon.s was about different houses being in conflict with [one] another: the Starks had honour, and they felt like the Lannisters had no honour, had betrayed Robert Baratheon and were putting forward illegitimate heirs for the throne, whereas this is really a Greek tragedy,” Condal says.
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