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Sunday, March 31, 2019
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Game of Thrones stars reflect on the end of the road and their favorite moments of the show!
Maisie Williams. Photo: Rankin for S Magazine
Maisie Williams has a lovely cover story and photoshoot with S Magazine, talking Daisie, #Mophie, and the end of Game of Thrones.
“This whole season was really, really emotional. When I came to shoot my final scene, I had already watched a lot of people wrap and seen all the tears and heard all the speeches,” she says. When her own finale arrived, Williams says she was ready to leave her decade-long role behind. “It was just a really beautiful day, and a really great final scene for me. It felt like the right time to say goodbye to Arya.”
Elsewhere on the internet, a flock of Game of Thrones stars talk to The Guardian about how the show changed their lives, their GoT favorites, and much more, in a great new article.
For Isaac Hempstead Wright, it seems that it’s been a mixed blessing, affecting his first attempt at going to university. “I ended up being assigned a campus police officer,” he tells The Guardian. “It was really full-on and I felt completely overwhelmed. I couldn’t walk out of my halls without being mobbed or having to take selfies. Everyone knew where I lived. Because you’re on the university email system, I’d log on to get my lecture notes and have 40 messages from random strangers saying: ‘Hi, Three-Eyed Raven!’” The actor dropped out but is returning to college now that he’s finished with GoT.
Iain Glen discusses his fame and social media notoriety courtesy of the show. He tells The Guardian that he’s aware Jorah’s “Ser Friendzone” nickname but also says, “I am such a dunce when it comes to social media I don’t fully understand what it is.”
Glen tells a sweet story about his daughter Mary visiting the bullring set in Osuna, Spain where Game of Thrones filmed the Daznak’s Pit fight scenes. He explains, “The Game of Thrones family took her and dressed her up like Ser Jorah, put her in a little kilt and put blood marks and cuts on her, made her all really dirty, gave her a wee sword and sent her off to the set. The director got her to sit beside the monitor and call ‘Action!’ and ‘Cut!’ in a tiny little high-pitched voice, as a massive fight sequence was brought to life. That’s a very fond memory and she still talks about it.”
Grey Worm actor Jacob Anderson had a hard time letting go of his character, and his trademark Unsullied armor. “On the last day,” he tells The Guardian, “my dresser, Jade, took my armour off and I realised it was the last time I was ever going to wear it. I said, ‘Please, could I leave it on for just a few more seconds?’ I didn’t want to let go of it. And I hated wearing that costume. It’s really uncomfortable. I didn’t expect to feel as emotional as I did.”
The Guardian talks to many more stars of the show including Jonathan Pryce, Carice van Houten, Gemma Whelan, John Bradley, Bella Ramsey, Hannah Murray, and Kristian Nairn, so swing by the site to check out what they had to say!
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Gemma Whelan opens up about Yara Greyjoy in Game of Thrones Season 8, perhaps revealing how long she survives!
The final season of Game of Thrones may be just two weeks away from premiering in our TV screens, but we still hadn’t heard from some of the cast, including Gemma Whelan, at least until today. In new interview, the actress who plays Yara Greyjoy isn’t as tight-lipped about spoilers as one may think—she may have even unknowingly revealed up to which episode Yara survives. And that’s no small thing to reveal, considering we last saw Yara as her mad uncle Euron’s prisoner—any minute longer she lasts is a miracle!
“I’m asked a lot what it’s like to play such a strong female character,” the English actress tells The Scotsman regarding her experience playing Yara, “and I lament that I’m asked because in real life women are strong and every colour of the emotional spectrum. As are men, but Kit [Harington, who plays Jon Snow] will never be asked what it’s like to play such a strong male character. That would be ludicrous. I’m sure you and I consider ourselves strong and clever and every bit as resourceful as our male counterparts.”
“All I can tell you,” Whelan teases about season eight, “is when I read the final episode I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. Because we’ve all conjectured and wondered and been asked over the years, who, what, how, and it’s not ANYTHING you could have guessed. It’s brilliant, so movingly clever.”
As for her storyline in particular, she of course doesn’t reveal whether Theon will be able to save his sister Yara as she once tried to save him, but she does allow herself to admit “it would be very nice and circular, wouldn’t it?”. She doesn’t let us get our hopes up, however: “But we all know Game of Thrones doesn’t always give you what you want.”
Whelan will be right there with us these next few months, wondering whether the show will give her what she wants, at least regarding anything that doesn’t involve Yara, as she admits she “deliberately didn’t read all of the scripts,” just the ones in which she appears. Considering she definitely claimed to have read the series finale, this appears to confirm Queen Yara of House Greyjoy will survive up to the series finale, at the very least!
“I like to watch it like a fan and be surprised. So I sit on the sofa watching with my husband,” the would-be Queen of the Iron Islands reveals. “I’ve never watched a TV show more vividly than the way I watch Game of Thrones. I have a physical reaction, get up off the sofa, walk about, slap my arms around. It’s a very physical experience in our house, Game of Thrones!” Oh, Gemma, believe me, you’re not the only one!
You can read the original interview, in which she discusses her experience filming previous seasons as well as many of her other roles, at The Scotsman.
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Game of Thrones Cast and Crew Reflect on Final Season, Las Vegas’ Bellagio Fountains soon to turn into fire-spitting dragon
“Lo and behold, upon this day, there were but 14 days left until premiere day of the final season of Game of Thrones” – Probably some prophet somewhere. We’re in the home stretch and the finish line is in sight! As interviews pour in in spades, it becomes funnier and funnier watching the cast come up with new ways to tease the ending without giving away spoilers. What do, Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), and others have to say? Let’s take a peek!
“It’s a strange thing thinking about life post-Thrones,” says Kit Harington, “I’ve never been in an institution as long as this, not school, not anything. The people and friends I’ve made here, the experience I’ve had, is more significant than any experience of my life thus far. It’s as big as it gets really.” It’s kind of weird when you think about it. We all have our family and friends in our daily lives, as well as our work friends…but for those cast members lucky enough to have survived for eight seasons strong, they’ve spent so much time on set in countries other than their own, away from their own friends and family. Given the amount of time and distance they’ve spent away from their lifelong loved ones, their work friends have become their loved ones and family members. It’s a neat thing.
And good friends, as we know, love to make fun of each other: “You should have seen Kit’s face at the read-through!” says Emilia Clarke, in reference to the first table read of season eight. As we’d reported on previously, Kit himself was a ball of tears during the read-through. He had not read the scripts ahead of time, so his live response was great for the cast: “His reactions were insane,” says Emilia. “And even for me, hearing it all come together…Everyone was crying.”
Remember the years of us wondering when ‘so-and-so’ characters would finally reunite? Wonder no more: “This season we keep having scenes with people that we haven’t had scenes with before,” says Sophie Turner. “I keep going, ‘Oh my God. Watching you is just so bizarre because the only time I have ever seen you in character is on TV.’ It’s really funny. I do feel like more of a fan-girl this year than ever.” And with all the uncertainty of the final season, Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) played ‘Guess Who’ with her mom: “I remember I was shooting something else earlier in the year and my mum came out to join me. We sat down one evening and we both said to each other, ‘Let’s project the final season. Let’s say who we think is going to be alive and who we think is going to be dead.’ We did and we were both wrong.”
Writer Dave Hill even chimes in on the ending itself (cryptically of course): “We wanted to justify people’s investment for many years and hopefully they will not feel cheated…But we do feel a great deal of pressure to bring this thing to a satisfying close. Hopefully we’ll stick the landing.”
For more from other members of the cast and crew, including Liam Cunningham (Ser Davos Seaworth), and writer/producer Bryan Cogman, check out the full interview – there are lots of good quotes in there!
And lastly, on a completely separate note, The Bellagio (aka, that fancy hotel with the fountain in Las Vegas) tweeted out something involving the ongoing #Forthethrone quest:
The quest #ForTheThrone begins at the Fountains of Bellagio. Watch live on Periscope tomorrow, 8 pm PT. @GameOfThrones @HBO pic.twitter.com/c9LfCCsTOZ
— Bellagio Las Vegas (@Bellagio) March 31, 2019
It turns out the Fountains of Bellagio are going to recognize the final season of the show with a special show, which will make its debut at 8 p.m. March 31. It will run through April 13 and feature a dragon spitting fire.
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Saturday, March 30, 2019
Friday, March 29, 2019
TV Guide talks to cast during Season 8 premiere filming, and Bryan Cogman picks his ‘must-rewatch’ episodes
A new promotional pic of Tyrion in Season 8, in the courtyard of Winterfell.
The news about the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones keeps comin’ and we keep rounding it up for your viewing pleasure, and this time it’s a preview story from TV Guide Magazine, who visited the set during filming back in 2017. Now that the article has been permitted to be released, we can glean some intriguing bits of character actions — and reactions — when the final season premieres in just over two weeks.
“It’s our biggest season by far,” David Benioff, told the magazine. “It’s only six episodes, but it was the longest [amount of time] we’ve ever shot, the biggest crew, the most extras and stuntmen. More people set on fire than ever before. It was intense.”
Writer Kate Hahn was on set during filming of the Season 8 premiere and was able to interview some of the cast members about what the final season has in store for their characters, including Jon (Kit Harington) and Daenerys (Emilia Clarke).
When they discover the truth, “she ends up in an incredibly fragile place,” Clarke said. “Jon is her only safety left.” Understandably, however, incest isn’t exactly Jon’s style, with Harington noting that “He’s not the kind of person who can [knowingly] jump in bed with a relative.”
There are lots of interesting tidbits about other characters, like Sansa, who Sophie Turner says feels “threatened” by Dany’s arrival in Winterfell. “She worked so hard to control the North and feels like Jon should be loyal. It’s frustrating to have Daenerys, who she feels is manipulating Jon, come in and take control,” she said.
And as for the much-hoped-for reunion between Jon and Arya? You might not want to get your hopes up that it will have the warm-and-fuzzies that their last interaction, in the series premiere episode, had. “They have led brutal lives since we last saw them together in the series premiere,” Harington said. “It’s changed them. Are they going to be what we want them to be?”
The article is an abbreviated version of the latest TV Guide Magazine’s cover story, which is available on newsstands now.
In a separate EW article, Bryan Cogman, longtime Thrones co-executive producer and writer, breaks down which episodes he recommends giving another go ahead of the Season 8 premiere.
I don’t want to spoil Cogman’s insights about the episodes that he chose, but he had some great reflections for each of the 21 episodes he chose, and a few interesting bits of trivia as well — for example, director Alik Sakharov purposely included an “homage to Akira Kurosawa with the flapping banners during Theon’s baptism scene” in Season 2’s “What Is Dead May Never Die.”
We all knew this episode would be on a “must-rewatch” list.
By season, Cogman’s must-rewatch episodes are:
Season 1: “Winter Is Coming” (E1), “The Kingsroad” (E2), “Baelor” (E9), “Fire and Blood” (E10)
Season 2: “What Is Dead May Never Die” (E3), “The Old Gods and The New” (E6), “Blackwater” (E9)
Season 3: “Walk of Punishment” (E3), “And Now His Watch is Ended” (E4), “Kissed By Fire” (E5), “The Rains of Castamere” (E9)
Season 4: “The Laws of Gods and Men” (E6), “The Mountain and The Viper” (E8), “The Children” (E4)
Season 5: “Hardhome” (E8)
Season 6: “Hold The Door” (E5), “The Battle of the Bastards” (E9), “The Winds of Winter” (E10)
Season 7: “The Queen’s Justice” (E3), “Spoils of War” (E4), “The Dragon and The Wolf” (E7)
It’s getting down to the wire for rewatches, but we can always make time for these amazing episodes. Only 16 days to go!
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Game of Thrones title sequence designer breaks it down and teases Season 8 changes
Winterfell/Godswood concept art created for the initial title sequence. Notice the date of 2010!
Personally, I think the title sequence of Game of Thrones never gets old — Ramin Djawadi‘s incredible score paired with the fascinating revolutions and evolutions of Westeros designed by Angus Wall is one of the most unique and memorable aspects of the already unique and memorable show. And if you want a peek behind the curtain at how it came to be, read on!
In a recent EW article, David Canfield reveals that the concept initially developed for the pilot was to use a map of Westeros for interstitials — spaces in between action shots — that would keep the audience clear on where the action was taking place. That, however, caused a problem.
“It broke up the narrative in the most horrible way,” title designer Angus Wall told EW. “But we realized there was a need to tell the geography of the world — in the same way that a legend would for a book. That became the title sequence.”
Wall also said that the approach to using a more flat or two-dimensional map was scrapped, because they wanted the viewer to feel as though they were actually orienting themselves “inside” the world of Westeros (and also because “It’s boring to have flat worlds”). It was also important to include the evolution of Houses within the story represented in the title sequence, Wall said, like the burning of Winterfell visualized by smoky rubble (and the Starks’ direwolf sigil again flying high beginning with the Season 6 finale).
A “flat” version of the title sequence map that was scrapped for the more 3D version we know and love.
It also became more difficult to keep up with the expanding map as the show went on, forcing the sequence to consider “what to leave out and what to leave in,” Wall said. “Would we have loved to show the movement of every army? Yes. But it’s an incredible amount of work just to create different locations and different versions of each location.” That has meant paring down locations like Winterfell and King’s Landing to their largest structures and leaving out some more minor locations entirely (Wall thinks viewers haven’t noticed, but he clearly hasn’t met fans like us).
Wall also noted that the technology that they use to create the sequence “has changed so radically over the course of all these seasons, so there are constant little technical upgrades that happen every season…. The definition has improved so much.” However, like any cast or crew member, he can’t reveal what that means for Season 8, though there is definitely something new and exciting there: “I can’t wait for people to see it”, he said. I guess we’ll just have to wait 16 more days to see for ourselves!
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Thursday, March 28, 2019
“We see more of Brienne in Season 8 than ever before”, claims Gwendoline Christie
Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) in Season 8. Photo: HBO
After spending most of season five looking at Winterfell intently, Brienne got quite a few superb moments in season six, first saving and pledging fealty to Sansa and then acting as her envoy in Riverrun with Jaime and the Blackfish. Sadly, season seven mostly sidelined Gwendoline Christie‘s character again, at least until the season finale. If you were one of the many worried that Brienne of Fucking Tarth wouldn’t get her due in the final season, Christie’s here to set us straight in a new Entertainment Weekly interview!
“Every couple of pages I thought I was dead,” she tells EW of her experience first reading the final scripts. “If you’re lucky enough to get to season 8, you expect to die on the first page. That’s the worst case scenario. The very worst case scenario is dying off screen. At one point while reading I said to my partner, ‘I think I died and nobody said anything.'”
As for her initial reactions, she admits she was left with “lots of questions. If there’s a character you care about and you feel like they go through some sort of hell you feel protective toward them.” Nevertheless, in the end Christie found the season eight scripts “hugely satisfying”, though she believes people will want the story to continue: “There’s something about this story that’s compulsive and essential. What [showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] have done in terms of this being the final season is masterful. I don’t think there’s any way people aren’t going to want more.”
“I put my heart and soul into this project and thrown myself into it physically as well, which has been incredibly challenging this year,” she says, alluding to the gigantic Battle of Winterfell in which she—as well most of the cast—was involved for two months. “We get to see Brienne going full throttle doing what we all love to watch her do. It’s the crew I feel for. They’re the ones who are truly the face of brutal suffering when it comes to the relentlessness of the schedule and I deeply admire them for that. But the storyline is so great. I have the skills now where when I’m told there’s going to be a fight and it’s nine moves with 30 men running at you that I can do it. And the Winterfell set is huge, it’s enormous. I’ve worked on big things and this is enormous.”
Brienne (Gwendoline Christie) and Arya (Maisie Williams) sparring in Season 7. Photo: HBO
If you fear we’ll only get to see Brienne swinging the sword and nothing else, do not worry, as Gwendoline Christie is here to assuage your doubts: “This season we see more of Brienne than ever before. I’m more involved this season and I’m delighted the character has been learning from everyone she’s been around. There’s been a timidness and a tense vulnerability that was the opposite of her physical strength,” she observes. “It’s been interesting to watch her embrace her intellect and humor and step forward in life and make decisions. I think this is a season where Brienne’s gender is really no longer an issue. She’s treated as an equal by all and that’s very pleasing.”
For more about when and how Christie first got to read the scripts and whether Brienne would like to ride a dragon, read the entire interview at Entertainment Weekly.
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Mountain Dew gets into #FortheThrone campaign with “A Can Has No Name,” a special Game of Thrones-themed can
Yesterday Mountain Dew teased they’d gotten involved with HBO to participate in Game of Thrones Season 8’s #ForTheThrone marketing campaign, and today we know the details: Mountain Dew is releasing a special edition can with Arya’s kill list.
As Mountain Dew puts it: “For seven seasons, Game of Thrones fans have watched characters lie, steal, bleed, kill, and sacrifice everything for the Iron Throne. Today, MTN DEW makes the ultimate sacrifice For the Throne – its name. The brand will remove its iconic neon green ‘face’ revealing a stark white, brandless can – ‘A Can Has No Name.'”
“A Can Has No Name” is a limited-run, special edition MTN DEW can inspired by Arya Stark, her ever-developing kill list, and her time with the Faceless Men, the Braavosi guild of assassins who relinquish their former identities to become “no one.”
When warm, the cans appear brandless. Once chilled, they reveal Arya’s iconic kill list, a tribute to those killed and a glance at her remaining targets for the final season. The cans incorporate thermodynamic ink, which is temperature sensitive and allows for colors to change when chilled.
In order to get a chance to get one of these limited edition “A Can Has No Name” cans, you must tell MTN DEW on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter “what you’d sacrifice” using the hashtags #ACanHasNoName #ForTheThrone, and #MTNDEWsweepstakes.
Alternatively, fans can also score one of the limited-edition cans in New York City and Los Angeles in the coming days by finding the “Masters of Coin,” uttering the ancient password, and receiving a coin. The Masters of Coin will then lead them to a designated ground where the coin will dispense a can from the Iron Vending Machine.
More details about this will be revealed by Mountain Dew in the coming days.
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Sixth and final Iron Throne found in the Quest #ForTheThrone!
The ‘Quest’ portion of “#ForTheThrone came to an end this morning with the discovery of the sixth and final Iron Throne.
A global search has been underway since last week for six Iron Thrones placed in carefully chosen locations as part of the #ForTheThrone marketing campaign — and now, with the fifth recently discovered in Canada, the sixth and final throne has been claimed today!
Barely an hour after posting the final installment this morning of the “Quest,” part of the sprawling marketing campaign for the final season of Game of Thrones, the “Queen of Queens” claimed the Throne of the Crypt in what appears to be Fort Totten Park, in New York City’s Queens borough (hence the “Queen of Queens” title):
The Queen of Queens. #ForTheThrone#ThroneoftheCrypt https://t.co/MTUv2T96gR pic.twitter.com/urUlz5IrfP
— Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) March 28, 2019
HBO’s Twitter account posted the link to the YouTube video with the hint “A new city flying a starry banner seeks protection from the Great War.” Some initially speculated that it would be a New York City location, considering the word “new,” although the “starry banner” part still has us scratching our heads. Looks like it didn’t confound the Queen of Queens for long, though!
The Quest #ForTheThrone has been a unique, challenging activity in which YouTube videos were posted showing an Iron Throne in an undisclosed location, with only glimpses of the setting and cryptic clues accompanying the posting. Viewers then sought out the real-world location of the Thrones. Congrats to all the winners!
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Daenerys, Jon, Sansa, Jorah, and more together in Winterfell in latest Game of Thrones Season 8 promo photos!
Yesterday we got a few more season eight promotional photographs, but really it’s been almost two months since the first media blast gave us a taste of the final season, so it was high time we got something new. And British TV channel Sky Atlantic provided!
On Instagram, Sky Atlantic shared a ton of new photos, as well as a few we have reported on before. Here are the new ones, focused on Winterfell in episode one and/or two:
Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright). Photo: HBO
Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright). Photo: HBO
Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie). Photo: HBO
Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie). Photo: HBO
Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). Photo: HBO
Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). Photo: HBO
Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). Photo: HBO
Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). Photo: HBO
Jon Snow (Kit Harington). Photo: HBO
Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner), Brienne (Gwendoline Christie), Pod (Daniel Portman). Photo: HBO
Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage). Photo: HBO
I’ll leave you all to speculate about the many concerned looks in these early season photos. For one, I’m just happy one of them features Emilia Clarke’s beautiful smile as Daenerys, who we rarely get to see this happy. I don’t think it’ll last, but one can hope.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Throne of Ice in #ForTheThrone Quest found; TV Guide Magazine Season 8 covers & Browser game released with CG trailer
This evening, we’ve got a little roundup of little news bites and updates for you, including the continuing Throne-hunt, the covers for tomorrow’s TV Guide Magazine issue, a pretty cool CG trailer for a new Game of Thrones browser game, and more.
The “Throne of Ice,” the fifth out of six thrones hidden all over the world in HBO’s For The Watch viral campaign for Game of Thrones season eight, unveiled yesterday, was found in Canada mere hours afterwards, as revealed by HBO Canada:
A true queen goes anywhere #ForTheThrone, even beyond the Wall. Birgit has staked her claim. #ThroneofIce https://t.co/G3iIU2Y2Rx pic.twitter.com/AYtvawLdJ3
— HBO Canada (@HBOCanada) March 26, 2019
The final throne hasn’t been unveiled yet, but we’ll inform you as soon as it is… and as soon as we know if this is leading somewhere more than a throne-sized easter egg hunt!
Earlier today, four variant covers for tomorrow’s issue of TV Guide Magazine were announced, featuring Jon Snow & Daenerys Targaryen; Arya, Sansa & Bran Stark; Cersei & Jaime Lannister; and, worryingly all by his lonesome, Tyrion Lannister:
Winter is finally here. The cast of #GameOfThrones is gracing our 4 collectible covers in honor of the ground breaking series' final season. Who do YOU think will sit on the Iron Throne?
Pick up a copy of our latest issue, on newsstands this Thursday! pic.twitter.com/9NaDJcSMbT
— TV Guide Magazine (@TVGuideMagazine) March 27, 2019
We’ll keep you informed if anything juicy comes from their cover story!
I guess we can say the show’s made it past any demographic constraints, because apparently HBO is teaming up with Mountain Dew as part of their extensive #ForTheThrone campaign promoting the final season of Game of Thrones:
.@MountainDew is coming #ForTheThrone @JoelEmbiid @GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/wilL1Ihpaw
— Mountain Dew® (@MountainDew) March 26, 2019
Finally, there is Game of Thrones Winter is Coming, the officially licensed PC browser-based strategy videogame that just released. I can’t vouch for the quality of the game itself, but I can say it was advertised with a pretty impressive CG trailer:
And that’s all for this roundup! This was a busy day, so be sure to look at the many bombshells we reported on earlier today, such as the prequel casting news and the announcement of a 2-hour ‘Making of’ documentary for Season 8. See you tomorrow!
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Quiz show-style ‘Thronecast’ airing Friday night on Britain’s Sky One!
Thronecast: Gameshow of Thrones is a Quiz Show hosted by GoT super fan Sue Perkins airing this Friday on Britain’s Sky One channel.
Let’s be honest: as fans of Game of Thrones, we’re guilty of thinking we know everything when it comes to trivia. But when the chips are down, are you more Three-Eyed Raven or Jon Snow?
The good news is, you don’t have to prove yourself (at least not to us) — the people at Britain’s Sky network have it covered. Thronecast, an aftershow that airs on Sky One during GoT’s regular seasons and features analysis, interviews and more, will present “Thronecast: Gameshow of Thrones,” a quiz-style game show centered on all things Thrones, at 10 p.m. on Friday on Sky One.
Hosted by comedian and Thronecast regular Sue Perkins, “Gameshow of Thrones” will pit two teams of celebrity fans — and some Thrones cast members! — against each other in a battle for trivia bragging rights.
Team Captain Rob Beckett will team up with Kate Dickie (Lysa Arryn) and Rickie Haywood-Williams, while Team Captain Jonathan Ross will join forces with Hannah Waddingham (Septa Unella) and Joel Dommett.
Team Ross will feature, from left, Hannah Waddington (Septa Unella), Jonathan Ross and Joel Dommett.
Team Beckett will feature, from left, Rickie Haywood-Williams, Rob Beckett and Kate Dickie (Lysa Arryn).
It’s not quite the Battle of the Bastards, but there may be taunting and name-calling, and it could be brutal. Seven blessings to these brave warriors!
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AT&T stores to host The Dead Must Die “mixed reality experience” & offer chance to attend Game of Thrones premiere
Denizens of Boston, Chicago and San Francisco are in for a treat. Magic Leap and HBO have collaborated to host an immersive Game of Thrones experience exclusively at AT&T stores in those cities early next month—with the possibility of meeting Kristian Nairn, who you may know better as Hodor, and attending the Season 8 NYC premiere!
According to the Making of Game of Thrones Blog, this “mixed reality experience” titled The Dead Must Die: A Magic Leap Encounter will bring Game of Thrones fans as close to fighting the Army of the Dead as is physically possible. Participants will be fitted with a Magic Leap One inside a room designed to resemble King’s Landing. “With torch in hand, visitors become soldiers in a standoff, as a frozen portal reveals the deadly world beyond the Wall.”
The blog lists the dates and locations as follows:
- Boston (Boylston) on April 1
- Chicago (Michigan Avenue) on April 3
- San Francisco (1 Powell) on April 6
However, press releases and Medium state that the Boston event will be held on April 2. The accuracy of the Chicago and San Francisco dates have yet to be confirmed. We’ll keep you posted.
Anyway, as cool as experiencing The Dead Must Die alone sounds, those who arrive at the Boston location at 12 pm ET (on April 2, according to Medium) will get the additional thrill of meeting Kristian Nairn, best known as Hodor, who will be “greeting Game of Thrones devotees, taking photos and ‘holding the door’ for the activation.”
Moreover, those in Boston will also get to enter for a chance to attend the season 8 red carpet premiere in New York City. 5 sweepstakes winners (and guests) will leave Boston for New York City on April 3 on HBO’s luxury bus, the “Dragon Wagon.” Winners will be announced on the evening of April 2.
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Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, Documentary Feature on the Making of Season 8, to air after series finale night!
It appears the night of Sunday, May 21st will not be our last taste of Game of Thrones. Not quite, anyway. On May 26, a week after the series finale, during the same 9:00–11:00 p.m. ET/PT time-slot in which the show would usually air, we’ll get to watch an epically long 2-hour behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the season eight!
For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay, known for her documentaries Seahorse, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King, Pantomime, The Great Hip Hop Hoax, Sound It Out and Goth Cruise, was embedded on the set of the Game of Thrones and chronicled the creation of the show’s most ambitious and complicated season.
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch will delve deep into the mud and blood to reveal the tears and triumphs involved in the challenge of bringing the fantasy world of Westeros to life in the very real studios, fields and car-parks of Northern Ireland. Made with unprecedented access, this film will give us an up-close and personal report from the trenches of production, following the crew and the cast as they contend with extreme weather, punishing deadlines and an ever-excited fandom hungry for spoilers.
The film is advertised as “much more than a ‘making of’ documentary.” It is, instead, “a funny, heartbreaking story, told with wit and intimacy, about the bittersweet pleasures of what it means to create a world – and then have to say goodbye to it.”
Documentary filmmaker Jeanie Finlay
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch is a Glimmer Films feature created for HBO; directed by Jeanie Finley; executively produced by Game of Thrones producers David Benioff. D.B. Weiss, and Bernadette Caulfield; produced by Jeanie Finlay, Rachel Hooper, and Martin Mahon; edited by Alice Powell; filmed by Jeanie Finlay, Mark Bushnell, Louise Liddy, Aaron Black, and Richard Jephcote; and composed by Hannah Peel.
The documentary will debut on HBO on Sunday, May 26, but it will also be available on HBO NOW, HBO GO, HBO On Demand and partnered streaming platforms.
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Five more actors cast in Long Night-era Game of Thrones prequel pilot!
The Game of Thrones prequel may be as-yet-unnamed, but we do know it will feature a star-studded ensemble cast. Naomi Watts was cast first, followed by Josh Whitehouse, much of the core cast together and, just a few weeks ago, none other than Miranda Richardson. Now, the trend continues as five actors are added to the cast!
Deadline reports Marquis Rodriguez, John Simm, Richard McCabe, John Heffernan, and Dixie Egerickx will be series regulars in Jane Goldman’s Game of Thrones spin-off.
New cast members Marquis Rodriguez (top left), John Simm (bottom left), Richard McCabe (center), John Heffernan (top right), Dixie Egerickx (bottom right). Photo lineup by Deadline
Rodriguez’s perhaps best known for his recurring roles in NBC’s Chicago Fire and Netflix’s Iron Fist and Luke Cage. He will soon appear in Netflix’s When They See Us.
In the geek community, John Simm’s best known for playing the villanous Master in BBC’s Doctor Who during the tenure of the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and most recently the Twelfth (Peter Capaldi), though he has a long and storied TV career, including Strangers, Trauma, Collateral and The Catch, as well as appearing in films such as Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People.
McCabe is a veteran Scottish actor known for Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams and Peaky Blinders on TV to The Little Stranger and Goodbye Christopher Robin on film.
Heffernan has appeared on TV shows such as Ripper Street, The Crown, and Outlander, and in films such as Misbehaviour, The Banishing, Official Secrets and Radioactive.
Young Dixie Egerickx, who’s only 13, has a surprisingly impressive filmography. She will soon co-star as Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden with the likes of Colin Firth and Julie Walters, and in the past she’s worked on the upcoming Summerland and Lenny Abrahamson’s The Little Stranger. On TV, she’s appeared on Patrick Melrose and others.
Savvy readers may notice similarities between some of these actors and the many, many, and even more casting calls we’ve reported on in the past, though we can’t definitively match any of them with these five new cast members for the spin-off pilot. At any rate, let’s welcome Marquis Rodriguez, John Simm, Richard McCabe, John Heffernan, and Dixie Egerickx to the world of Game of Thrones!
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Kristofer Hivju opens up about Tormund’s Season 8 return after uncertain cliffhanger
Season seven’s last scene left us with Tormund and Beric running for their lives from a collapsing Wall, as the army of the dead passed through the breach at Eastwatch. We didn’t get to witness their fates, but would the writers have killed Tormund Giantsbane and Ser Beric Dondarrion off-screen? I think not! Now that Tormund’s return has been confirmed by the trailer (though, interestingly, not the character posters), we can now read actor Kristofer Hivju talking about his character’s return in this final season.
During this uncommonly long off-season, Hivju had to be extra-cautious about not being sighted in Belfast, even refusing to take selfies, as he reveals to EW. “We didn’t see him die; season 8 could have started episode 1 with dead Tormund,” Hivju explains.
Hivju hopes his return causes delight in the fandom, whose fervor he’s only recently been made fully aware of: “I sat in a bar when I was shooting The Fate of the Furious and I watched an episode of Thrones with diehard fans, and it was like seeing a sporting event. I didn’t understand the impact of the show until watching it with other people. It was the episode where [the Hound] came back, and there was this roar. I’m going for that.”
Tormund (Kristofer Hivju), Beric (Richard Dormer) and Edd (Ben Crompton) in the trailer
“He wants closure,” Hivju says about Tormund’s motivation this season. “All the Free Folk grew up with the horror stories of the White Walkers, like that story Nan told Bran in season 1 with the ice spiders — except having seen them. This has been the terror of their worst nightmare as long as they’ve existed. Tormund has confronted them many times. This is the nightmare moment where you have to face centuries of bad dreams.” I’m sorry, that’s all very dramatic—but did Hivju say Tormund’s faced ice spiders?
“Everything has an end,” Hivju proclaims, regarding his feelings on being done with Game of Thrones after so many years. “Everybody is exhausted and nobody is tired. It’s a long, intense journey, and extremely satisfying; it’s so seldom to have this positive drive through every season, from your first day to your last day. Everybody wants to up their game and make it even better. We feel like we’re always competing with ourselves. So it’s satisfying to end it and we’re ending it when everybody still loves being here.”
If you want more from this Bane of Giants, read the interview at Entertainment Weekly.
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