As per Deadline
HBO’s Home of the Dragon, primarily based on George R.R. Martin’s Hearth & Blood, has added Simon Russell Beale, Freddie Fox, Gayle Rankin and Abubakar Salim to its forged for Season 2. Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Eve Finest, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, Rhys Ifans, Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Corridor and Matthew Needham will all be returning. The collection, set 200 years earlier than the occasions of Recreation of Thrones, tells the story of Home Targaryen and may have 8 episodes in its second season.