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A month ago, it was revealed that press had been given a screening of a season 2 teaser. We speculated then that it would be something fans would get to look at within a month… and as it happens, to the very day of our post, the season 2 teaser has been released by HBO. See it below!
Besides this, yesterday HBO released a pair of new character posters featuring Rhaenyra and Alicent… and now today they’ve released quite a few stills or on-set photographs from the new season, to whet the appetites of fans. See those below!
Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower
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Emma d’Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen
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Rhys Ifans and Olivia Cooke
Photograph by Ollie Upton/HBO
Olivia Cooke
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Ewan Mitchell
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Steve Touissant
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Matt Smith
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It’s a dramatic trailer starting fresh from the close of the season finale.. and hinting at much more bloodshed and skullduggery to come, with quite a lot of crownlands heraldry like the arms of Rosby, Stokeworth, Darklyn, and more which should give fans familiar with Fire and Blood some hints at the brewing conflicts. And maybe one or two images suggesting some veering away from the text as well, or at least finding ways to add the show’s own stamp to events.
HBO adds the following information in its press release:
- Season two returning cast: 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.
- Season two new cast: Clinton Liberty as Addam of Hull, Jamie Kenna as Ser Alfred Broome, Kieran Bew as Hugh, Tom Bennett as Ulf, Tom Taylor as Lord Cregan Stark, and Vincent Regan as Ser Rickard Thorne. Previously announced new season two cast includes Abubakar Salim as Alyn of Hull, Gayle Rankin as Alys Rivers, Freddie Fox as Ser Gwayne Hightower, and Simon Russell Beale as Ser Simon Strong.
- Season two credits: Co-Creator/Executive Producer, George R.R. Martin; Co-Creator/Showrunner/Executive Producer, Ryan Condal; Executive Producers Sara Hess, Alan Taylor, Melissa Bernstein, Kevin de la Noy, Loni Peristere, Vince Gerardis. Based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood.”
The trailer closes promising that season 2 will return in the summer of 2024. Word from executives was that it was “probably” going to start in early summer, but that has perhaps not yet been finalized as post-production continues.