a book is coming out soon about the making of the show. Martin did interviews for it. One thing he mentioned was some scenes were not what he wanted due to budget reasons. For example when Robert was killed on the hunt he thought the group should have been 100 people instead of just a handful on the show due to the budget. They had more money to spend after season 1 was a hit.
Huh. I remember that scene - they didn’t even show the hunt itself; just Robert and some courtiers walking through the woods, the king drinking heavily IIRC.
The book on the show is out now. Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon is the name. I believe Cersei told the King’s aide to get him drunk hoping he would be killed. Her plan worked
I read the book on the show. It was a good book. Almost everyone major did interviews for it . One exception was Charles Dance. Martin kept saying the books will be different for some scenes. I guess he still thinks he is putting them out. The author visited the sets many times during the production. They asked boat owners to move their boats for a few scenes and they think Bruce Willis jerked them around by moving his yacht and then moving it back. Nobody saw Willis so they are not sure it was him.
For scenes at King’s Landing or somewhere else?
Yes. Evidently the fight between the Mountain and Oberyn.
the final battle vs. the Night King and his army took 2 months to film , all at night. And it rained quite a bit too along with the cold .
Also in the last season 5 actors got $1 mil per episode. I would think that would be Cersei,Jamie,Tyrion, Dany and Jon Snow, After Snow died the scripts for the next season were marked LC for Lord Commander for him to hide his comeback from the dead .
Makes sense. I remember he admitted on a talk show that he got out of a speeding ticket in L.A. by confirming to the cop who’d stopped him that he’d be returning on the next season of GOT.
For Cersei fans:
One million per episode!? Their money must’ve cost more than everything else put together!
Fighting nowhere near Tarth…
Fans of Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Jojen Reed) can now see him playing a hotshot American chess master in the very good Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit. At 0:35 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDrieqwSdgI
This thread may also be of interest:
Have a look, if you like: House of the Dragon, an HBO prequel series to Game of Thrones
Because George R.R. Martin doesn’t have any $%^&*! better use of his time:
Yeah! He should be writing more Haviland Tuf adventures!
Honestly, I’ve written off George completing Winds of Winter (much less Dream of Spring) at this point. He’s old and rich, and clearly doesn’t have much motivation to get it done (at least compared to his other interests). We just had a year plus of everyone being locked in their houses in which he could have probably written Winds twice over, but there’s no indication he’s close to finishing.
And that’s fine. Like I said he’s old and rich, and with his years left he should be doing whatever’s most personally meaningful for him. If we do get Winds that’ll be a nice little surprise, and if not I just hope that he’s set up his estate so that maybe another promising writer could take a crack at it.
Give it to The Expanse authors, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. They’ve shown they can finish a complicated series (they just won a bet against Martin for turning in the final Expanse novel to the editors before Martin finished ASoIaF), and both have collaborated with Martin and had a hand in various parts of the ASoIaF universe.
Absolutely!