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Wednesday, September 30, 2020
The Walking Dead, Star Trek, and the rise of the TV mega-franchise
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Game of Thrones Stars Reconfirmed for Con of Thrones 2021!
Big news today! Mischief Management has announced that all previously announced Con of Thrones 2020 guests have been reconfirmed for Con of Thrones 2021! Please join us in once again welcoming Game of Thrones stars Iain Glen, Anton Lesser, Miltos Yerolemou, and Sam Coleman, along with the Wildefell Wolves to the con. Next summer’s festivities will be taking place August 6-8, 2021 at the amazing Hyatt Regency, in Orlando, Florida.
Tickets for Con of Thrones 2021 are on sale!
Autograph and photograph sessions with the guests are now available for purchase. See ConOfThrones.net for details!
Con of Thrones is the premier convention for fans of Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the epic worlds of fantasy author George R. R. Martin. Watchers on the Wall is the programming partner for CoT, and we’re proud to help bring panels, debates and events to the con each year.
Each year CoT hosts lively in-depth discussions about both Game of Thrones and ASOIAF, Special Guest Spotlight interviews, live recordings of fan-favorite podcasts, nighttime events, and much more. Con of Thrones provides opportunities for autographs and photographs with some of the most familiar faces from Game of Thrones. It’s also an incredible opportunity to meet new friends in the fandom and have a whole lot of fun. So come on down to Orlando, and join us!
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Con of Thrones official website, or visit CoT on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Monday, September 28, 2020
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David Benioff and D.B Weiss explain why they omitted Lady Stoneheart
Oh, Lady Stoneheart. Her omission from Game of Thrones was one of the show’s first major departures from A Song of Ice and Fire. Now, six years on, showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss explain their thought process behind their controversial decision in James Hibberd’s upcoming book, Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Untold Story of the Epic Series
In an article for Entertainment Weekly, Hibberd published interview excerpts with David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and George R.R. Martin from his upcoming book (which is available for pre-order now) that shed light on why Mother Merciless didn’t make the jump from page to screen.
According to Benioff, it was actually a fairly easy decision to make. “There was never really much debate about [including Lady Stoneheart],” he said. “There is that one great scene.”
In context, it seems the “one great scene” he’s referring to is Lady Stoneheart’s reveal at the end of A Storm of Swords (as opposed to say, Brienne’s trial, which I guess could qualify as “great,” depending on how you define the word).
Her cloak and collar hid the gash his brother’s blade had made, but her face was even worse than he remembered. The flesh had gone pudding soft in the water and turned the color of curdled milk. Half her hair was gone and the rest had turned as white and brittle as a crone’s. Beneath her ravaged scalp, her face was shredded skin and black blood where she had raked herself with her nails. But her eyes were the most terrible thing. Her eyes saw him, and they hated. – Epilogue, A Storm of Swords
“That was the only debate,” Weiss concurred. “The scene where she first shows up is one of the best ‘holy shit’ moments in the books. I think that scene is where the public response came from. But then…”
His quote trails off and, frankly, it’s unclear if there was more to his statement that Hibberd chose to leave out (or save for his book) or if Weiss intentionally left his sentence ambiguous.
However, Weiss and Benioff do make it clear that there were several concrete reasons why they decided against bringing Catelyn back after the Red Wedding, one of which had to do with the Red Wedding itself. They didn’t want to undercut the power of Catelyn’s final scene in which she barters in vain for her son’s life by simply reintroducing her back into the show.
“Catelyn’s last moment was so fantastic, and Michelle is such a great actress, to bring her back as a zombie who doesn’t speak felt like diminishing returns,” Benioff said.
They were also concerned about Catelyn’s return undercutting another character’s miraculous return from the dead.
“We knew we had Jon Snow’s resurrection coming up,” Benioff said. “Too many resurrections start to diminish the impact of characters dying. We wanted to keep our powder dry for that.”
A third explanation Benioff and Weiss provided was something related to Martin’s as of yet unrevealed plans for the character in A Song of Ice and Fire.
“Part of the reason we didn’t want to put it in had to do with things coming up in George’s books that we don’t want to spoil,” Benioff said.
Citing A Song of Ice and Fire in this particular discussion is an interesting approach to take, in my opinion, since Martin has been quite open in other interviews about disagreeing with Benioff and Weiss’s decision to write out Lady Stoneheart.
“Lady Stoneheart has a role in the books,” Martin told Hibberd. “Whether it’s sufficient or interesting enough. I think it is or I wouldn’t have put her in. One of the things I wanted to show with her is that the death she suffered changes you.”
Regardless of the reasons behind the decision, Lady Stoneheart’s omission has been the subject of debate for six years, now. I’ve given my two cents, as have others on this site. But ultimately we’re all just going to have to wait for The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring for Lady Stoneheart to finally return again.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
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HBO president says ‘House of the Dragon’ still on track
The GoT cast (or at least some) at the 2019 Emmy Awards.
For the first time in nearly a decade, there was no Game of Thrones to be represented at the Emmys this year. However, that didn’t prevent HBO from doing two things it’s very accustomed to: taking home a ton of awards and answering questions about Game of Thrones.
A year after GoT won for its eighth and final season, the network’s familial Succession took home Best Drama during Sunday’s virtual, COVID-pandemic altered event. That significant win, along with others for Watchmen and I Know This Much is True, proved that HBO isn’t struggling with the genre in a post-Thrones world — but as the network known for the global phenomenon, naturally there were questions about GoT and its spinoff in the works, House of the Dragon.
HBO President Casey Bloys confirmed to Deadline after the awards that casting for HoTD (*immature giggle here*) is ongoing, and that “the drama is still on track for a 2022 launch.”
It’s not much to go on, but it’s nice to know that despite a global pandemic and a shutdown to many, many TV and film productions, HBO is forging ahead on the highly-anticipated spinoff that will focus on House Targaryen and their civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. Add this tidbit to the list of what we know about it, including the recent news that casting may be underway for Daemon Targaryen. And stay tuned for more — as soon as we know, you’ll know!
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
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Excerpt from James Hibberd’s book delves into the infamous unaired Game of Thrones pilot
Much like a car accident off the side of the highway, I am morbidly fascinated by the disastrous original pilot of Game of Thrones. Fortunately for people like me, James Hibberd’s upcoming book, Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Untold Story of the Epic Series, will offer a behind-the-scenes look into (among other things) the myriad factors that made that episode un-screenable. Hibberd’s book (which is slated for release on October 6 and already available for preorder on Amazon) chronicles the Game of Thrones television phenomenon from its inception all the way through to its final season. Entertainment Weekly recently published an excerpt , which is comprised mostly of interview snippets of cast and crew discussing the unaired pilot. And boy, oh boy do their anecdotes make me hope HBO actually does release that pilot one day.
Juicy tidbit highlights include:
Nobody Bent the Knee to King Robert Baratheon!
Mark Addy: “We were trying to establish the rules and order of this new world. In the Winterfell courtyard scene, nobody kneeled when the king arrived in the first pilot. You can’t play being the king. You can’t display “look at how powerful I am.” People have to give you that by showing subservience. It has to be afforded to you by others. In the reshoot, everybody kneeled. It made a huge difference in terms of establishing who’s in charge.”
Joffrey Had a Bowl Cut
Christopher Newman (producer): “Joffrey had a different haircut. In the original pilot, it was more pageboy cut, slightly pudding bowl-ish, like Henry V. It wasn’t that it didn’t suit him being a little shit, but it softened the edge. The modern cut in the version that aired gave him more spitefulness.”
Cersei Looked like Dolly Parton
Lena Headey: “I looked like a Vegas showgirl in the [original] pilot — furs and massive hair, like a medieval Dolly Parton. Not that I’m complaining, I loved it. My hair devolved.”
Heh heh heh. It did indeed.
A Horse Got Aroused Watching Drogo and Daenerys’ Wedding Night. Yes, really.
George R.R. Martin: “So we’re by this little brook. They tied the horses to the trees and there’s a seduction scene by the stream. Jason Momoa and Tamzin are naked and “having sex.” And suddenly the video guy starts to laugh. The silver filly was not a filly at all. It was a colt. And it was getting visibly excited by watching these two humans. There’s this horse in the background with this enormous horse schlong. So that didn’t go well either.”
Rickon Wasn’t In It!
George R.R. Martin: “The biggest thing was Dan and David called me up and had the idea of eliminating Rickon, the youngest of the Stark children, because he didn’t do much in the first book. I said I had important plans for him, so they kept him.”
*Ahem*
Least Harry Lloyd Could At Least Put a Positive Spin on the Whole Ordeal
Harry Lloyd: “We were very lucky to be given a $10 million-dollar rehearsal.”
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