{"id":625556,"date":"2026-09-24T03:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625556\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T03:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:22:17","slug":"prime-videos-game-of-thrones-meets-the-chosen-epic-officially-sets-new-2026-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625556\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video\u2019s \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 Meets \u2018The Chosen\u2019 Epic Officially Sets New 2026 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historical epics<\/a> are not in short supply, depending on what direction you’d like to tread. The best fantasy shows at the moment, House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, feel almost more like historical dramas, albeit from a fictional age that never really existed. After finding tremendous success with The Chosen, Prime Video managed to find it’s own answer to the epics of the Game of Thrones universe with the biblical series hit, House of David<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The biblical epic<\/a> appeals to viewers on so many levels, as the actual David v. Goliath story plays out on screen<\/a> even as a shepherd boy is being groomed and molded into a formidable individual capable of replacing a once powerful king. Despite embracing its religious setting fully, the House of David also brings to the fore the scheming that often occurs at the highest levels of political power while showcasing how challenging young love can sometimes become. First premiering in 2025, the series chronicles the rise of the son of Jesse, from shepherd to king. After defeating Golliath (Martyn Ford)<\/a> in Season 1, the second season, which premiered in March 2026, saw David, played by Michael Iskander, being forged into a noteworthy leader on the battlefield and in everyday life.<\/p>\n

A third and final season of the series is currently in the works, but a new release is coming. Season 1 of House of David very quickly became a major viewership success for Prime Video, drawing more than 40 million viewers globally\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b. In the aftermath, the season got its own DVD release to further establish itself. Now, as we look forward to Season 3, it has now been revealed that House of David is getting an exciting new release on November 17 in the form of a DVD for Season 2. The upcoming release is an eight-episode physical media edition with a total runtime of 458 minutes, with subtitle options for English and Spanish, and also 2.0 Dolby Audio. This release showcases that a market still remains for this format. In this age when digital-only releases can be cut off<\/a>, this format ensures access for viewers in perpetuity.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tCollider Exclusive \u00b7 8 Questions \u00b7 2 Minutes
\n\t\t\t\tWhat Fantasy World Do You Belong To?
\n\t\t\t\tMiddle-earth \u00b7 Grand Line \u00b7 The Continent \u00b7 Camp Half-Blood<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tPick your magic, your crew, where you want to wake up and who you would rather be fighting, and we will tell you which world you actually belong in. Four are open to you: an ancient kingdom living through its last good age, an endless sea full of pirates, a continent that pays people to kill monsters, and a summer camp where the Greek gods are extremely real and mostly a nuisance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udc8dMiddle-earth(Rings of Power)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udc52Grand Line(One Piece)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udc3aThe Continent(The Witcher)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udd31Camp Half-Blood(Percy Jackson)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tFIND YOUR WORLD \u2192\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

01<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tWhat kind of power do you want?
\n\t\t\t\tEvery one of these worlds runs on a completely different sort of magic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tASomething ancient and half forgotten that came down through my family.
\n\t\t\t\tBSomething completely ridiculous that works in a fight and gets a laugh.
\n\t\t\t\tCNo magic at all, just training, potions and a very sharp sword.
\n\t\t\t\tDSomething I inherited from a parent I have barely met.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

02<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tWho is travelling with you?
\n\t\t\t\tNobody gets through any of these stories entirely on their own.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tAA fellowship drawn from every corner of the world who barely trust each other.
\n\t\t\t\tBA crew I picked up one at a time, all of whom would die for me.
\n\t\t\t\tCTwo or three people I would never describe out loud as friends.
\n\t\t\t\tDTwo mates from school who are exactly as out of their depth as I am.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

03<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tWhere do you want to wake up tomorrow?
\n\t\t\t\tThe best fantasy is usually just somewhere you would genuinely like to live.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tAA high city of white stone with the sea somewhere far below.
\n\t\t\t\tBA ship under sail, with an island ahead that nobody has mapped.
\n\t\t\t\tCA rented room over a tavern, in a town I am leaving in the morning.
\n\t\t\t\tDA cabin at a summer camp with everybody else already awake outside.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

04<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tHow are you making a living out there?
\n\t\t\t\tEven in fantasy somebody has to pay for the horse.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tAI am not, because somebody far older than me decided this was my duty.
\n\t\t\t\tBTreasure, and I am not always careful about whose it used to be.
\n\t\t\t\tCI take contracts, since people will pay well for what they will not touch.
\n\t\t\t\tDI am fifteen and this is all technically a school trip.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

05<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tThere is something in the woods. What do you do about it?
\n\t\t\t\tAll four of these worlds keep something unpleasant out there in the dark.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tASend word to somebody who has seen this before, then hold the line.
\n\t\t\t\tBWalk straight in, because it is interesting and possibly edible.
\n\t\t\t\tCAsk what it has been eating and what the village is willing to pay.
\n\t\t\t\tDWork out which myth it escaped from, then improvise very badly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

06<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tWho is the villain of your story?
\n\t\t\t\tThe enemy tells you far more about a world than the hero ever does.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tAAn ancient evil that has been patient for several thousand years.
\n\t\t\t\tBA government that has spent a long time calling itself the good guys.
\n\t\t\t\tCA man who turns out to be far worse than anything I hunt for money.
\n\t\t\t\tDA god, or possibly my own family, and quite likely both at once.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

07<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tWhat do you actually believe in out there?
\n\t\t\t\tEvery world hands its heroes one rule and asks them to hold onto it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tASome things are worth defending even when the odds are hopeless.
\n\t\t\t\tBNobody gets to tell me where I can go or what I am allowed to want.
\n\t\t\t\tCPick the lesser evil, and never pretend afterwards that it was not evil.
\n\t\t\t\tDMy friends come before anything a prophecy has to say about it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

08<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tA thousand years from now, how are you remembered?
\n\t\t\t\tEight questions in, this is the one that decides your world.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tAIn a song, in a language hardly anybody still speaks.
\n\t\t\t\tBAs the one who got there first and proved the whole thing was possible.
\n\t\t\t\tCBarely, and mostly wrongly, in ballads I would absolutely hate.
\n\t\t\t\tDOn a plaque at a camp, read by kids about to do the same thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

REVEAL MY WORLD \u2192<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tThe Map Is Drawn
\n\t\t\t\tYour World Is\u2026<\/p>\n

Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life
\n\t\t\t\t\tlooks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in
\n\t\t\t\t\treturn.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Rings of Power \u00b7 Prime Video \u00b7 Since 2022\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tMiddle-earth<\/p>\n

You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsomebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat,
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teverything you touch is older than your entire family line.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tevery quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tOne Piece \u00b7 Manga since 1997 \u00b7 Netflix 2023\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Grand Line<\/p>\n

You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tyou are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfinding out what is over there.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teach want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsomewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tharder because of that rather than in spite of it.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tit.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Witcher \u00b7 Netflix \u00b7 Since 2019\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Continent<\/p>\n

You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tContinent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpeople are where it all gets complicated.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWitchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tContinent that question tends to have a disappointing answer.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgot told wrong.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tPercy Jackson \u00b7 Disney+ \u00b7 Since 2023\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tCamp Half-Blood<\/p>\n

You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tyou want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\teverybody kept telling you.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPercy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners,
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhich makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsomething nobody thought to test for.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tevery time a prophecy tries to get in the way.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCamp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdifficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\u21bb RETAKE THE QUIZ\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Who Stars in ‘House of David’?<\/p>\n

In the eyes of critics on Rotten Tomatoes, House of David Season 2 performed okay with a score of 67%. However, with audiences, that score ramped up to an impressive high of 87% as the show continues to establish itself in the realms of prestige television<\/a>. Besides Iskander, who plays David, a heroic character<\/a> recognized in the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic faiths, the series also features other key figures. Ali Suliman plays King Saul, David’s original benefactor turned antagonist by the time Season 2 concluded, thanks to his own paranoia<\/a>. Ayelet Zurer<\/a> plays Ahinoam, Saul’s dutiful yet conniving queen, with Ethan Kai as Jonathan, heir apparent to the throne of Israel and David’s best friend. Yali Topol Margalith stars as Mirab, Oded Fehr<\/a> as Abner, Indy Lewis as Mychal, Saul’s daughter and David’s wife, with Stephen Lang<\/a> as the feared spiritual authority, the Prophet Samuel.<\/p>\n

The DVD release of House of David arrives on November 17. Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on Prime Video. Stay tuned to Collider for updates.<\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 27, 2025<\/p>\n

Network<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrime Video, Wonder Project<\/p>\n

Directors<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJeff T. Thomas, Jon Gunn, Jon Erwin, Lynsey Miller<\/p>\n

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