Game of Thrones is a notoriously difficult show to make, even when everything is going perfectly. The globe-spanning locations, the sprawling cast and crew, the special effects — the series has similar production values to a big-budget feature film, except it’s 10 hours long. When shooting the upcoming sixth season, the Thrones team was thrown a bonus challenge when there was a rockslide at the show’s Castle Black set. The Castle Black scenes are filmed in Northern Ireland’s Magheramorne Quarry, where a practical and functional castle set rests at the bottom of a rockface (the rock wall is then dressed as “ice” and extended with special effects to look like The Wall as seen in the photo above). Read More...
It's a hard-knock life for the women of Westeros. You're told what to do, how to behave, and who to marry. There's no birth control and the feminine hygiene products are likely very unsatisfactory. Honestly, unless you're walking around with three dragons, you can never so much as hope to win an argument. And on this week's Game of Thrones, several ladies received bad news or worse: Ygritte is tethered (literally) to a man planning to betray her people. Read More...
Before an episode of Game of Thrones is even filmed, storyboard artists like Will Simpson sketch out scenes from the script to help directors see how best to convey the action in visual form. Simpson has been working on the hit HBO series — which kicks off its eighth and final season April 14 — since the beginning. Even before the pilot episode, he was recruited to create early concept art for things like the many weapons of Westeros, Cersei’s royal carriages, and the initial versions of the White Walkers. Read More...
