Game of Thrones; House of the Dragon

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON

Network: HBO

Commitment: 10 Episodes

Starts: April, 2021

Producer: Miquel Sapochnik. Rvan Condal, Ron Schmidt, George R.R. Martin

Director: Miguel Sapochnik

Writer: Miquel Sapochnik

Casting Director: Kate Rhodes James. Jeanie Bacharach

Location: UK

Genre: Fantasy

Log Line: This prequel series finds the Targaryen dynasty at the absolute apex of its power, with more than fifteen dragons under their yolk.
Most empires-real and imagined-crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins almost 193 years
before the events of GAME OF THRONES, when King Viserys Targaryen breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter
Rhaenyra-a woman-heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains
her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm...

Roles:

[King Viserys Targaryen]
Male 40s-50s Lead
A peaceful man who hates conflict, especially where it concerns his brother Daemon, his Queen, and his daughter Rhaenyra. While amiable, open-handed and eager to please, he suffers a health condition which weakens him...making it near impossible for him to bridge the deepening divide between
his wife and daughter, whose problems fester and grow into mortal wounds. Viserys is a good man but a bad king. (ONE-YEAR DEAL)
Set Paddy Considine

[Rhaenyra Targaryen]
Female late 20s Series Regular
Heir to the throne, brazen with anti-establishment leanings, she doesn't understand why doing things differently is met with such resistance. Her disregard for the rules chafes at the...never particularly solid...relationship between her
step-mother, step-siblings, and their respective factions at court. Though raised to rule, her status as a woman has unsettled her position from the start, and her punk-rock attitude and rule-breaking tendencies further incense those who never
stood with her in the first place.
Set Emma D'Arcy

[Prince Daemon Targaryen]
Male 40s Series Regular
The younger brother to King Viserys, Daemon wasn't born with "naked ambition" for the throne despite being in line for it. He's less methodical and more impetuous. Not to mention easily
bored...stumbling from one distraction to the next with the subconscious yet singular obsession with eaning the love and acceptance of his brother the king. Most of Daemon's joy is found at sword-point. But even as the most experienced warrior of his time, he vacillates between vile and heroic
making him the true rogue of the series.
Set Matt Smith

[Alicent Hightower]
Female early 30s Series Regular
Viserys's wife. Plays by the rules, behaves properly, and maintains an air of grace while being married to a man she perceives as increasingly soft and acquiescent to his daughter's every whim. The same daughter she was once close with and is now her fiercest rival. Alicent represents the establishment, and while for the most part she keeps her feelings at bay, her husband's continued weakness towards
Rhaenyra-especially when she births three bastard children-is as insulting as it is unseemly. After a decade of holding out hope that things might change, she now operates with clear focus: that a woman can never sit on the Iron Throne.
Set Olivia Cooke

[Carlys aka Corlys Velaryon]
Male 50s -60s
Series Regular
Rhaenys's husband and Rhaenyra's right hand. New money. the head of House Velaryon and Lord of the Tides is a self-made man-richer than Lords Lannister and Hightower through his expeditions. He's the only one in this cast who has made his own way-even built his own castle-while everyone around him was simply born into their position. Battle tested and the most experienced seafarer in the known worid, he is married to Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, once the heir to the Iron Throne but passed over due to her gender. It's a slight
that has long vexed him, and he deals with it by constantly reaching for more power, position, and recognition even at the expense of his family. He feels like he's the realm's Second Son."

[C]
Male late 20s/30s Series Regular
Middle Eastern or Mediterranean. Ruggedly handsome, the soul of knighthood and chivalry, a capable warrior. Horse-riding ability required. Partial nudity, multiple options series regular

[M]
Female 30s Series Regular
A striver and a schemer, M seeks to rise up in a society that sees her as an outcast and an outsider. Her beginnings are as a sex worker, but she never lets an opportunity slide, and her intelligence and unflagging ambition will carry her ever nearer to her goal: to wield power over the powerful. It remains to be seen whether she will use it to gain acceptance or revenge. Life in Westeros is a game, and M plans to win it. SERIES REGULAR (CURRENTLY 5 EPISODES).

[R]
Female Series Regular
Wise and cultured; The Queen Who Never Was". She was passed over for the throne simply because she was born without a cock. Clever, capable, spirited, and proud, she is the embodiment of grit and grace and is utterly fearless (she is also a dragon rider). Ton between her loyalty to her husband and her own feminist aspirations and disappointments, she struggles with supporting the claim of the princess - a younger but wilder version of her own self- who stands to inherit the Seven Kingdoms. A feminist but a realist, she harbours doubt that the princess will make a capable ruler.

[HW]
Male Series Regular
The Commander and longest-serving member of the Kingsguard, who still remembers the lustre of the storied Seven Knights. A once powerful Knight and a successful military background so a man with presence and status. Given the responsibility by the King to watch over and guard the Princess. In the current regime, where widespread peace has led to complacency and indulgence, he feels something of a loss of purpose, but nevertheless serves the King with a fierce, if quiet, loyalty.