Info in Movie News | HBO has last given the fans of Westeros a reason to celebrate, House of the Dragon Season 3 is officially going to be in 2026. The prequel to Game of Thrones, the wait is over for another season packed with mayhem, treason, and fire-breathing dragons, after only a couple of years, a wild second season will be back in 2024. This third installment with a bigger scope and even more elevated stakes is, therefore, the most furious one to date of the Targaryen saga.
According to Polygon, HBO has informed that the third season of House of the Dragon is aiming for a release around the middle of 2026. The head of HBO, Casey Bloys, mentioned that the show is going to be “just outside” the 2026 Emmy consideration period, which ends on May 31, so it will probably be June when the new episodes will be first available to the public similarly to season 2 which was also released in June 2024. The shooting for the episode is completed and the show is now very far in post-production, thus it will not be long before the fans can expect the return of the incendiary events of Westeros.
Showrunner Ryan Condal teased that this season is going to be “goddamn massive.” He mentioned that the growth of the production has been evident in every aspect: the set design, costumes, and the addition of thousands of extras, all of which have gone beyond the limits of what’s been done before. House of the Dragon Season 3 will chronicle one more chapter of the cruel civil war which is The Dance of the Dragons; the war that ravaged the Targaryen dynasty the most.
The characters and events of the story will still revolve around Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy), who now shoulders the burden of the war for the Iron Throne. After the terrible losses of Season 2, Rhaenyra is going to the extreme to get back her birthright. On the contrary, the King Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) and his mother Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) are plotting just as hard to keep their power. The new season is coming with a bang as it will be left with the Battle of the Gullet featuring heavily in the opening, a scene that was originally meant to be the finale of Season 2 and thus filled with amazing and intense moments.
There will be several new faces helping the war next phase along that will also be the first by playing alongside the main characters. Ormund Hightower will be played by James Norton, Ser Roderick Dustin character will be taken by Tommy Flanagan, Annie Shapero will be playing Alysanne Blackwood, and Ser Torrhen Manderly character will be portrayed by Dan Fogler. Among new characters is Alysanne, who is also known as Black Aly, a savage fighter who chooses the side of Queen Rhaenyra during the Dance of the Dragons and, subsequently, weds Lord Cregan Stark becoming the royal lineage of Westeros that is made up of 2 houses united by one bloodline.
The upcoming season will comprise a total of eight episodes, which is equal to the number of episodes in the previous season but two less than the first season had. HBO has also confirmed that Season 4 will serve as the series’ grand finale, concluding the fiery events adapted from George R. R. Martin’s Fire & Blood. While Martin has voiced some disagreement with creative changes, he’s acknowledged that the book is a “fragmented history,” requiring the show to fill in gaps and interpret events in new ways.
Before Season 3 arrives, HBO will expand the Game of Thrones universe with another prequel, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg. The mini-series with Peter Claffey as Ser Duncan the Tall and Dexter Sol Ansell as Egg is scheduled for January 18, 2026. It will contain six episodes and could act as a sidewise show interchanging the House of the Dragon Seasons 3 and 4, thus, going deeper into the lore of Westeros.
New adventures of Rhaenyra and Daemon (Matt Smith) will be the main attraction of the next season right from the start. Olivia Cooke revealed that the first two episodes “explode with energy” and carry on the momentum that was only halfway through last season’s finale. With a ton of battles happening all over, the scheming politics, and the betrayals of the family Season 3 of the series is going much deeper than anything that was there before.
House of the Dragon Season 3 is scheduled to release on HBO and Max in the summer of 2026. So, why not rewind and binge the first two seasons of this incendiary return of the Targaryen saga that revolves around the struggle for power, blood, and dragons, of course, until the next season is out.
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