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17 May

Game of Thrones Director: Series Was Seen as ‘A Great Experiment’

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Last month marked the 10th anniversary of the Game of Thrones series premiere: a show that changed the face of television as profoundly as The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Sex and the City, or any other series that advanced the notion of what kind of entertainment television could deliver. While any series of its scope and stature is the offspring of literally hundreds of creators–from showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to the indelible cast–one person who left his own mark on Game of Thrones is director Neil Marshall, who helmed two of the show’s most unforgettable, epic episodes:…
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05 May

House of the Dragon Photos Offer First Look at Thrones Prequel Characters

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Production on HBO’s first Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon is now underway. And we don’t even have to take the network’s word for it this time, as over the weekend grainy, far away photos and videos of actors in costume began to emerge on social media.  Since we all clearly can’t help but snoop, HBO has decided just to go ahead and release high quality photos of said actors in costume. The first three official photos of House of the Dragon today and they highlight five brand new (or technically old in this prequel’s case) characters…perhaps even…
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21 Apr

Every Game of Thrones Spinoff and Prequel in Development

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People always say the journey is more important than the destination, but don’t tell that to Game of Thrones fans. After a historic, zeitgeist-capturing run on HBO, Game of Thrones culminated in a divisive, rushed eighth season that left both fans and critics cold on the whole endeavor. This came after a 2012 poll conducted by Vulture that named Game of Thrones fans as the most devoted fanbase in popular culture. Despite all of this once noteworthy love and admiration, the impact left today from Game of Thrones feels almost like a fever dream. Read more TV Game of Thrones…
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19 Apr

15 Best Game of Thrones Warriors

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Despite what some legendary TV actors might have you believe, Game of Thrones wasn’t all just “tits and dragons.” The eight-season HBO series based on George R.R. Martin’s sprawling A Song of Ice and Fire saga was far more sophisticated than the sum of its most prurient parts.  The series was an honest and in-depth exploration of political dysfunction. There were no easy decisions to be made and even the best deeds from the most pure at heart rarely went unpunished. Even factoring in its…less than superb final season, Game of Thrones was refreshingly complex pop entertainment for adults. Now,…
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16 Apr

Game of Thrones at 10: The Series That Changed TV Forever

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During the Game of Thrones series finale, there’s an exchange between Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister that is as much about the series’ legacy as it is the characters’ inner turmoil. Only a handful of scenes earlier, these same two men conspired to murder the woman they called their queen, Daenerys Targaryen. Now living with the consequences of that heavy deed—with Jon again banished to the white hell Beyond the Wall and Tyrion conscripted to a lifetime of public service—a tormented Jon asks his friend was it right what they did? “Ask me again in 10 years,” Tyrion says tersely.…
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05 Apr

Link Tank: Game of Thrones Spinoff Writer Hopes Canceled Series Will Still Happen

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The writer for one cancelled Game of Thrones spinoff is still holding out hope that the series will happen. “In a post-Game of Thrones universe, HBO is still looking for its next huge hit. Is the answer more Game of Thrones? After initially announcing plans for several spinoffs only to cancel all of them except House of the Dragon, HBO signed a new five-year deal with George R.R. Martin in late March of 2021.” Read more at Inverse. The newest Spanish-language crime thriller on Netflix, Sky High, is a lackluster heist movie not worth your time. “As you scroll through…
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30 Mar

How the Game of Thrones Play Fills a Major Gap from the Series

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Game of Thrones may have concluded its story in a divisively pyrrhic fashion, but the franchise wasn’t exactly left in ashes, thanks to a backlog brimming with several spinoff shows supported by creator George R.R. Martin’s purportedly eight-figure, five-year deal recently signed with HBO. However, it appears that the mythology, adapted from Martin’s novels, is set to invade another arena, a Broadway stage, with a Game of Thrones play now in development. Interestingly, rather than rehashing the show, the play will instead showcase a heretofore unseen storyline crucial to the hit TV series. The Great Tourney at Harrenhal will serve…
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19 Mar

Can the New Game of Thrones Spinoffs Redeem Missed Opportunities?

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While Game of Thrones fans have had two years to digest the show’s controversial coda, the conception of spinoffs shows have since dominated discussions; a notion HBO solidified with the news that three more spinoff shows are in development in addition to upcoming spinoff House of the Dragon and other projects. While the prospect of even more television shows might seem overwhelming, the new spinoffs will explore avenues from George R.R. Martin’s mythos that were either botched or missed entirely on the main series. HBO confirmed to THR (as first reported by Deadline,) that three additional spinoff shows are in…
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29 Jan

Tamzin Merchant Brings Back Mystery of Unaired Game of Thrones Pilot and Daenerys

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Game of Thrones could’ve been a very different series. In fact, it could’ve never become one at all. This is a familiar lesson for anyone who followed the saga of HBO’s flagship series and one of the biggest phenomena in modern pop culture. Yet it’s worth recalling when so many folks seem to dismiss the series, or its creators, after 2019’s contentious final season of Game of Thrones. And it’s something we’re reminded of again with Tamzin Merchant, more than 10 years later, finally breaking her silence about the road not taken when she was briefly cast as Daenerys Targaryen.…
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28 Jan

Does Game of Thrones Really Need to Be a Shared Universe?

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From the harbor of Oldtown to the top of the Wall, it is known throughout Westeros that all men must die. That they must, yet the phrase may soon be amended to include, “and all geek properties must live on… forever.” It certainly appears to be the takeaway from the news that a Game of Thrones animated series for HBO Max is currently in development. The revelation came late Wednesday afternoon via THR when it was reported that HBO Max, the streaming arm of WarnerMedia, was meeting with writers to hear ideas for a potential animated drama in the same…
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28 Jan

Will Bridgerton Become the Next Game of Thrones?

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Traditionally, when critics discuss “the next Game of Thrones” or when studios, networks, and streamers search for “the next Game of Thrones,” the candidates put forth have much in common, genre-wise, with the late, sometimes great HBO series. They are the Lord of the Rings TV show or His Dark Materials or The Witcher—aka epic fantasy series that, by and large, have the look and feel of a Game of Thrones, ignoring the fact that, contextually, the fantasy elements of Game of Thrones were only one factor in its enormous success. This isn’t an unfamiliar Hollywood tale. After a massive…
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21 Jan

Tales of Dunk and Egg Is Game of Thrones at its Most Warm

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Looking back, it’s kind of remarkable that Game of Thrones found once-in-a-generation mainstream fantasy success. Not that the series isn’t awesome, because it is. But “The World of Ice and Fire” that author George R.R. Martin crafted, and Thrones adapted, is a truly imposing beast. The show’s Westeros was filled with ancient, dynastic families with unfamiliar names. Not only that but the continent they occupied was intended to be the size of South America and was still significantly smaller than the Daenerys Targaryen-occupied Essos to the East, both of which had sprawling, complicated histories.  Thankfully, HBO made a successful bet…
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16 Jan

Why Rudy Giuliani’s Game of Thrones Defense Couldn’t Even Convince Tyrion Lannister

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Rudy Giuliani just had a terrible year. Once, long, long ago, he was revered as “America’s Mayor.” Now the former politician and current attorney to President Donald Trump ended 2020 by asserting baseless and disproven lies about election fraud; losing over 60 court cases; facing an inquiry from the New York State Bar Association; and learning that Trump is trying to stiff him for the effort. So his poor ability to process the themes of Game of Thrones, either as TV series or George R.R. Martin’s source novels, ranks pretty low on his list of disgraces. … Nonetheless, it joins…
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12 Dec

Who are the New Characters in Game of Thrones Prequel, House of the Dragon?

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This article MIGHT contain mild spoilers for House of the Dragon. The Game of Thrones prequel is heating up with three major lead additions to the House of the Dragon ensemble. With the casting of Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, and Emma D’Arcy, significant pedigree has been added to the series, particularly for either Doctor Who or British Royal Family enthusiasts with regard to Smith. And it also feels a lot more tangible for fans looking on from the outside. However, other than a brief mention of who the new cast members are playing—Daemon Targaryen, Alicent Hightower, and Rhaenyra Targaryen—not much…
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19 Nov

Seeing Game Of Thrones, and its Dimly Lit Battle, in a Whole New Light

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It’s been a year and a half since Game Of Thrones aired its final episode ‘The Iron Throne’ (although it feels a lot longer thanks to 2020 time dilation), and now a ‘Complete Collection’ box-set has arrived. It’s slightly odd to behold these 33 discs, squeezed into eight Blu-ray cases, snuggled up in a lovely box, with a little booklet nestled in. So much time has passed since the world watched that finale and the online discourse erupted with the fiery ferocity of Cersei’s attack on the Sept Of Baelor. With so much vocal negativity surrounding season eight, it feels…
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18 Nov

His Dark Materials Now Has One Very Obvious Thing in Common With Game of Thrones

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This article contains spoilers for the His Dark Materials Season 2 premiere. In this age of an increasingly fractured viewing audience, it’s unlikely that a TV show will reach the heights of Game of Thrones, but HBO does seem to be intentionally courting the same fantasy-loving audience with His Dark Materials. So far, it doesn’t seem to be working, and there are many, many differences between the two series that could explain U.S. viewers’ hesitance to tune into the Philip Pullman adaptation. That being said, with the His Dark Materials Season 2 premiere, the two HBO fantasy dramas do have…
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06 Oct

Game of Thrones Prequel House of the Dragon Casts Viserys I

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It can now be confirmed that Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon is definitely pursuing the “Dance of Dragons” civil war from Westerosi history, and one of the key figures that led to that conflict has just been cast: Meet your Viserys I in Paddy Considine. The news was announced by HBO Monday evening, with the premium cable network revealing the English-born Cosidine is stepping into the crown of Viserys I after playing Mr. Martin on HBO’s The Third Day. The actor has previously appeared in The Outsider, The Death of Stalin, and Hot Fuzz. As confirmed…
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29 Sep

Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin Names His ‘Least Favorite Scene in the Entire Show’

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A dozen dogs, minimum. At least thirty men wearing puffy tunics and women in massive croissant-shaped hats. Boars, deer, bears, spears and carcasses everywhere you look. Any 15th century tapestry will tell you that in ye olden days, a royal hunting expedition involved more fuss and hoopla than your average Glastonbury. So why, when King Robert Baratheon, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm goes hunting in Game of Thrones’ first season, does he pitch up with only his little brother, a single guard, a spear apiece, and a boy to carry the wine bladder? That’s the complaint…
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24 Sep

Game of Thrones Showrunners Reveal Why Lady Stoneheart was Cut

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This article contains spoilers for George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series. For readers of George R.R. Martin’s book series, “A Song of Ice and Fire,” it was the gasping disappointment heard around the internet. During the Game of Thrones Season 4 finale, Arya Stark makes the fateful decision to leave Westeros behind and pursue a potential new life in Braavos, and Ramin Djawadi’s music swelled as her ship disappeared into the great horizon. Then… credits. To those who never read the book it was bittersweet poignancy; for book readers though, the immediate question is where…
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22 Sep

Game of Thrones Prequel Series House of the Dragon on Track for 2022, Casting Underway, Says HBO President

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While 2019’s controversial conclusion of Game of Thrones played out the presumed end of Westeros’s royal Targaryen bloodline in the television adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire literary mythology, HBO subsequently put into motion plans to jump back to the family’s peak era with prequel series House of the Dragon, with a 2022 window eyed. Yet, while the royal house’s motto of “Fire and Blood,” might accurately describe how 2020 has been playing out, it appears that the prequel series was not set back by the pandemic. House of the Dragon is still on track…
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