House Of The Dragon S2 has wrapped filming

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that House Of The Dragon S2 has wrapped filming.

The actors strike didn’t have a significant effect either as all actors on the show are under UK Equity contracts rather than SAG, with a few also being part of SAG union, like Matt Smith for example. That being said, when the actors strike began in July, the production managed to rearrange some of the filming schedule and create “mini-vacations” for SAG members as a loophole of sorts. They weren’t officially on a solidarity strike, but on a small break and were back to filming shortly after.

“House of the Dragon has returned,” said new showrunner Ryan Condal. “We are thrilled to be shooting again with members of our original family as well as new talents on both sides of the camera. All your favourite characters will soon be conspiring at the council tables, marching with their armies, and riding their dragons into battle. We can’t wait to share what we have in store.”

Filming for season is said to have been wrapped up by September 2023, according to Variety. House of The Dragon is one of the few shows which was able to continue filming during the WGA and SAG strikes as the scripts were already finished before the writer’s strike began and the production was under a UK union contract.

With location shoots finally wrapped, the production of House of the Dragon moves back once again to Leavesden Studios where they will continue filming until the end of September 2023.

Before filming began, we reported that filming would be wrapped around September/October, and evidently that schedule hasn’t changed much. Only that it’s not early October, it’s late September.

Ok HOTD fans prepare for some *slightly* bad news, as one of the show’s directors Clare Kilner has revealed the season will be slightly shorter than the first, with eight episodes rather than season one’s 10.

However, Kilner has reassured fans those eight episodes will still be completely action packed.

“There are eight wonderful episodes with so much happening in every episode, and we have trouble, at times, bringing them down to one hour,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “Ryan’s [Condal, showrunner] decision was to give it a good opening and a good ending, and they’re jam-packed with emotional and visually exciting events.”

Ok fine, we guess we can get on board with this.