{"id":83116,"date":"2020-10-06T21:23:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/game-of-thrones-prequel-series-gets-its-first-cast-member\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T21:23:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:23:15","slug":"game-of-thrones-prequel-series-gets-its-first-cast-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/game-of-thrones-prequel-series-gets-its-first-cast-member\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 prequel series gets its first cast member"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dcac86decd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dcac86decd\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/game-of-thrones-prequel-series-gets-its-first-cast-member\/#His_casting_places_the_series_around_the_Dance_of_the_Dragons\" >His casting places the series around the Dance of the Dragons.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/game-of-thrones-prequel-series-gets-its-first-cast-member\/#The_Great_Council_of_Harrenhal\" >The Great Council of Harrenhal<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/game-of-thrones-prequel-series-gets-its-first-cast-member\/#The_lead_into_the_Dance_of_the_Dragons\" >The lead into the Dance of the Dragons<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> of Thrones\u2019 prequel <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> gets its first cast member<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-sub-head\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"His_casting_places_the_series_around_the_Dance_of_the_Dragons\"><\/span>His casting places the series around the Dance of the Dragons.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content-wrapper\">\n<p>HBO officially revealed the first actor cast in <em>House of the Dragon<\/em>, its Targaryen-centric <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> prequel series\u2014and even if you aren\u2019t familiar with the character, you almost certainly recognize the name.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy Considine, who\u2019s been in everything from <em>The Outsider<\/em> and <em>Peaky Blinders<\/em> to a Tony-nominated performance in <em>The Ferryman<\/em> and a memorable turn on <em>Hot Fuzz<\/em>, has been cast as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/awoiaf.westeros.org\/index.php\/Viserys_I_Targaryen\">Viserys Targaryen<\/a>, who\u2019s a much different character than the Viserys who met a tragic end early in <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKing Viserys Targaryen is chosen by the lords of Westeros to succeed the Old King, Jaehaerys Targaryen, at the Great Council at Harrenhal,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/house-of-the-dragon?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=hotd-home_hotd-site_20201005&amp;utm_content=38&amp;utm_term=tw-post\">an official description from HBO reads<\/a>. \u201cA warm, kind, and decent man, Viserys only wishes to carry forward his grandfather\u2019s legacy, but as we\u2019ve learned from <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, good men do not necessarily make for great kings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The casting is an intriguing one. Not just because it gives us our first glimpse of what <em>House of the Dragon<\/em> might be aside from an adaptation of <em>Fire and Blood<\/em>, George R.R. Martin\u2019s chronology of House Targaryen from Aegon the Conqueror to the Dance of the Dragons. By bringing in Viserys, <em>House of the Dragon<\/em> will at least partially bring House Targaryen\u2019s infamous civil war, which also led to the extinction of dragons in Westeros, to life.<\/p>\n<p>But while the Dance of the Dragons was ultimately a question over the line of succession, we can look even further back to see where the threads began.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-the-great-council-of-harrenhal\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Great_Council_of_Harrenhal\"><\/span><strong>The Great Council of Harrenhal<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The occasional hazard of a king ruling over a country for as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/awoiaf.westeros.org\/index.php\/Jaehaerys_I_Targaryen\">Jaehaerys I Targaryen<\/a> did at 55 years, is that it might not be im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely clear who\u2019s set to inherit the throne when he dies. With the death of his son <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/awoiaf.westeros.org\/index.php\/Aemon_Targaryen_(son_of_Jaehaerys_I)\">Aemon<\/a>, Jaehaerys chose his younger son <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/awoiaf.westeros.org\/index.php\/Baelon_Targaryen_(son_of_Jaehaerys_I)\">Baelon<\/a> over Aemon\u2019s daughter <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/awoiaf.westeros.org\/index.php\/Rhaenys_Targaryen_(daughter_of_Aemon)\">Rhaenys<\/a>. And then Baelon died before Jaehaerys.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Jaehaerys\u2019 death, he called together the Great Council of 101 AC (After the Conquest) to nail down exactly which Targaryen would rule after him so that his descendants wouldn\u2019t go to war about it. While there were more than a dozen potential candidates, the ruling came down to two Targaryen heirs: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/awoiaf.westeros.org\/index.php\/Laenor_Velaryon\">Laenor Velaryon<\/a>, the son of Rhaenys Targaryen (who was Jaehaerys\u2019 granddaughter), and Viserys, the son of Baelon Targaryen (and Jaehaerys\u2019 grandson). Viserys won out, setting the patriarchal precedent that the male bloodline of House Targaryen would always be chosen over the female bloodline.<\/p>\n<p>Jaehaerys died two years later in 103 AC, and for the next 26 years, Viserys ruled over Westeros, and according to <em>The World of Ice &amp; Fire<\/em>, \u201cHouse Targaryen was never again so powerful as it was in Viserys\u2019s reign.\u201d Viserys inherited the wealth and legacy that his grandfather left behind, but there was enough fueling the flames to eventually burn it all down.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-the-lead-into-the-dance-of-the-dragons\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_lead_into_the_Dance_of_the_Dragons\"><\/span><strong>The lead into the Dance of the Dragons<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>By the time that Viserys dies in 129 AC\u2014unlike most of the people we\u2019ve met in Westeros in <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, his death was on the more peaceful side\u2014he\u2019s created another constitutional crisis. Viserys preferred <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/awoiaf.westeros.org\/index.php\/Rhaenyra_Targaryen\">Rhaenyra<\/a>, his daughter from his first marriage, as his heir to the throne, and even trained her for the role. But most of Viserys\u2019 small council (including the Hand of the King) pushed to crown <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/awoiaf.westeros.org\/index.php\/Aegon_II_Targaryen\">Aegon II Targaryen<\/a>, the son of Viserys and his second wife Alicent Hightower, over Viserys\u2019 wishes.<\/p>\n<p>The end result was the Dance of the Dragons, a civil war that pitted Targaryens and their dragons against one another. The civil war lasted two years, and by the time the war ended, both Rhaenyra and Aegon II would fall, leaving Rhaenyra\u2019s son <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/awoiaf.westeros.org\/index.php\/Aegon_III_Targaryen\">Aegon III<\/a> (and Aegon II\u2019s nephew) to take the throne.<\/p>\n<p>While we don\u2019t know just how long Viserys will be around in <em>House of the Dragon<\/em>, we do know that, based on subsequent casting information from <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, <em>House of the Dragon<\/em> will include at least part of Viserys\u2019 reign. The show is in the midst of casting Alicent Hightower, Viserys\u2019 two children Rhaenyra and Aegon II, and Viserys\u2019 brother (and Rhaenyra\u2019s uncle\u2014and future husband\u2014Daemon Targaryen). Along with showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik, Sara Lee Hess, who worked on the other <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> prequel and <em>Orange Is the New Black<\/em>, has joined the creative team.<\/p>\n<p><em>House of the Dragon<\/em> is tentatively set to premiere in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><em>H\/T <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/game-of-thrones-house-of-the-dragon-paddy-considine\/\"><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit\">\n<p>                                                                                                <span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit-segment\"><br \/>\n                                        <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/house-of-the-dragon?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=hotd-home_hotd-site_20201005&amp;utm_content=38&amp;utm_term=tw-post\">HBO<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/unclick\/house-of-the-dragon-paddy-considine-viserys-targaryen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 prequel series gets its first cast member &#8221; His casting places the series around the Dance of the Dragons. 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