Matt Smith suggests HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel is coming in August

This year, HBO will air the first season of House of the Dragon, its follow-up to Game of Thrones. Set some 200 years before the original series, the show tells the story of a the Dance of the Dragons, a brutal civil wore that tore Westeros apart.

Like its mother show, House of the Dragon has a huge cast, including Matt Smith as the violent Daemon Targaryen. We still don’t know when the show will premiere, although hints are starting to drop. Last week, the management agency representing star Emma D’Arcy, who plays Daemon’s niece Rhaenyra Targaryen, said that the show was coming out in August, although it quickly scrubbed that language from its website. The agency may have revealed something it shouldn’t have, or it might have just posted the wrong date; it’s hard to be sure.

However, a pattern may be forming. Matt Smith recently gave an interview to blackfilmandtv where he may have let something slip about the House of the Dragon premiere date date. “We’ve gotta wait and see, til August!” he said of the show.

To be fair, Smith quickly walked that back. “Or whenever it is, September, I don’t know when it’s coming out.” Does he truly not know the date or did he reveal more than he was supposed to? You decide; he talks about House of the Dragon towards the end of the video below.

Honestly, if it was just Smith saying this, I wouldn’t think much of this, but between him and D’Arcy’s agency I’m starting to think there’s been a decision made behind the scenes. Wanna clear it up, HBO?

Matt Smith calls his character’s backstory in Morbius “convoluted”

As for the show itself, Smith has yet to watch it. “We were shooting for 10 months, it was a tough shoot, but we all got through it,” he said. “I’ve not seen a frame yet, I’m waiting to see what it looks like like everyone else.”

Something he has seen is Morbius, the new Sony superhero movie coming out this Friday, April 1. Jared Leto stars as the title character, a doctor who gains vampire-like superhuman abilities. Smith plays the villain of the piece, Milo, who gets similar powers but uses them for evil.

Milo is kinda-sorta based on the Marvel Comics villain Hunger, but he ended up being a pretty different creation. As Smith puts it in the video, “My story’s slightly more convoluted.” That made it hard to research the character, but Smith had a good time nonetheless. “Playing a villain in a movie of that scale was always something that I wanted to tick off the list.”

Morbius comes out in theaters this Friday, April 1.

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