Season 3

[AdmiralDigby]

Breaking Bad Co-producer and Director, Michelle MacLaren,  to direct episodes 7 and 8 of the third season of Game of Thrones. Looks like ep 7 is penned by GRRM. makes me think it may be the RW ep (don't Google RW if you don't know what it means).

http://www.westeros.org/GoT/News/Entry/MacLaren_Directs_Episodes_7_and_8/

[spoiler]If so then I bet Lady Stoneheart caps the season  [/spoiler]

[Spooky]

Breaking Bad Co-producer and Director, Michelle MacLaren,  to direct episodes 7 and 8 of the third season of Game of Thrones. Looks like ep 7 is penned by GRRM. makes me think it may be the RW ep (don't Google RW if you don't know what it means).

http://www.westeros.org/GoT/News/Entry/MacLaren_Directs_Episodes_7_and_8/

[spoiler]If so then I bet Lady Stoneheart caps the season  [/spoiler]

That would be a perfect last image!

[Spooky]

I give you Mance Rayder.


http://images.wikia.com/johncarterofmars/images/9/9d/Ciaran_Hinds.jpeg

James Hibberd of Entertainment Weekly has just revealed exclusively that the role of Mance Rayder has finally been cast – with none other than Ciarán Hinds!

You will of course know him best from Rome, where he played Julius Caesar. After Tobias Menzes (as Edmure), this is the second Rome alumnus joining the cast.

Hear Me Roar: Wow, that one got me excited! When other candidates and actors we speculated about definitely dropped out, I felt bad, but HBO managed to get a big name for the role in the end, and one that is, for my money, a great fit.

http://winteriscoming.net/2012/08/ciaran-hinds-is-mance/

[AdmiralDigby]

Now get Polly Walker , James Purefoy , Ray Stephenson , Kevin McKidd , Max Pirkis , Kerry Condon and Lee Boardman .
( oh , and Sam "Get these mutherfuckin' zombies off my mutherfuckin' Wall!" Jackson too )

Because that's a killer cast of pros right there ....

[Spooky]

Daario Naharis and Grey Worm cast

http://winteriscoming.net/2012/08/daario-naharis-and-grey-worm-cast/

[AdmiralDigby]

Daario Naharis and Grey Worm cast

http://winteriscoming.net/2012/08/daario-naharis-and-grey-worm-cast/

[AdmiralDigby]

http://nicklarter.livejournal.com/8772.html


A (Brief) Round Table with Ser Barristan
nicklarter
9/22/12 06:37 pm
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One of the nice innovations for TitanCon 2012 was the addition of round tables with the Game of Thrones cast members who were attending.  I was lucky enough to be pulled out of the hat with nine others for the one with Ian McElhinney, who plays Ser Barristan Selmy of course.  Naturally I was absolutely delighted to get this sort of opportunity.

I'm sure it's no surprise to anyone for me to note that Ian was unfailingly courteous, hugely articulate and exuded considerable magnetism as he held court.  He arrived sporting a beard, but was quick to point out that he had grown it for another job and didn't know if it would be required for S3 yet, having not so far shot any of his scenes, although he had read his scripts. 

Obviously there were few specifics talked about as to what was coming, thanks to the double-whammy of an HBO minder in attendance (a thankless job, done with silent good humour this day by Ryan Marshall, for those who follow him on Twitter) plus the TitanCon spoiler policy of no discussion beyond A Clash of Kings.  However we talked about where Ser Barristan might end up at the end of it all and Ian expressed a preference for him surviving and having his niche in the 'new world order' whatever that might turn out to be.  He said he had met GRRM a couple of years ago, but didn't know what was lined up for Barristan; he didn't even know whether Barristan would remain a PoV character in the last two books or whether he would get any big combat moments.

In terms of how Ian is interpreting the character, we discussed loyalty.  Ian reckoned Barristan's dilemma was whether or not the demands of being a Kingsguard had meant that he had had to be loyal to the right people during his life - a madman then a drunk.  A good insight was his observation that had Barristan not been sacked, he would certainly have remained loyal to Joffrey.  He reckoned that as things stood now Barristan certainly couldn't wait for the day when someone did away with Cersei.

As far as other characters were concerned, he said he was most interested as to where Tyrion might end up.

Away from the Game of Thrones plot, Ian noted the hugely beneficial impact that the series was having on the growth of the Northern Ireland film and TV industry and gave us the sobering story of doing TV work back in the 1980's.  He noted that as a younger actor he often played police officers; most of the time back then, Northern English cities like Manchester or Sheffield stood in for Belfast, but when filming was done in Belfast itself, anyone playing a police officer role was kept out of sight until as close as possible to the take and was covered up again immediately afterwards.

The thirty minutes of the round table flew by.  I don't think it any exaggeration to suggest we could have gone on for three or four times that.   Clearly that would be unrealistic - I can appreciate that such special guests shouldn't be overstretched, but thirty? C'mon guys, make it forty or forty five minutes next year.

[Spooky]

I hope he doesn't have any difficult lines to remember.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/KristianNairn/status/250564915897700352[/tweet]

[Eric]

I hope he doesn't have any difficult lines to remember.

[Spooky]

Some photos from Croatia.

http://winteriscoming.net/media/images/fort-of-st-lawrence/