HBO has finally released a newer and longer trailer for its Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, and you won’t be surprised to learn that the trailer is full of dragons and also many Targaryens with their revealing white and blonde trains. .
The new show premieres on August 21 on HBO (it streams on HBO Max) and is a prequel set immediately before a civil war broke out between the competing heirs of the Targaryen House. In the novels A Song of Ice and Fire (and HBO’s Game of Thrones), this civil war marks the end of the Targaryen House, which is weakened by internal strife and eventually almost extinguished just before of Game of Thrones. The series is based on The Dying of the Dragons, a novel set in George RR Martin’s 2018 novel, Fire & Blood.
It stars Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen and Emma D’Arcy as her royal rival, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen. And while it doesn’t look like any dragons have been harmed in the making of the trailer or the show, it looks like a few super blonde wigs should have lost their lives.