Olivia Cooke Retains Hyping Up ‘Home of the Dragon’ Season 3

House of the Dragon followers have been ready patiently for extra season three information, and sequence star Olivia Cooke has thrown them a bone or two.

Cooke informed Display Rant earlier this week that the upcoming season could be “large,” and she or he’s solely continued to hype it up. In a current Collider interview, she described it as “larger and extra ferocious than earlier than. It begins off with a bang: the primary two episodes had been basically speculated to be our finale final yr, so you’ll be able to simply think about that form of vitality.”

That’s excellent news for followers who thought final season was a bit missing; particularly because the third season will apparently function moments meant for season two.

Regardless of manufacturing working all through the 2023 Hollywood strikes because of native UK union guidelines, Dragon’s second season had solely eight episodes versus the primary season’s 10—the usual season size for many of Sport of Thrones’ run. It feels like season three will return to that bigger episode rely whereas additionally protecting extra floor from the books: In March, showrunner Ryan Condal revealed 4 main occasions from the ebook Fireplace & Blood might be tailored for the approaching season, considered one of which is able to turn into a “conceptual” episode that’ll reportedly be totally different from anything followers have seen to date.

Nonetheless no phrase on when Home of the Dragon will return, although. Manufacturing is anticipated to proceed by means of October, so it might be some time earlier than we see what Cooke’s so hyped about. On the brilliant facet, one other Sport of Thrones prequel, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is slated to hit HBO someday in 2026.

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