Posted on 07/10/2018 3:54:01 PM PDT by Boomer
While one “Game of Thrones” chapter is closing, another may be opening.
“Game of Thrones” characters have been bidding farewell to their beloved characters as filming for the eighth and final season wrapped this summer. But fans are optimistic about a prequel to the hit HBO show, which is reportedly set to film in Northern Ireland in October.
According to the Belfast Telegraph, filming for the new show will take place at Paint Hall studios in Belfast, where the original “Game of Thrones” series was shot.
“This is fantastic news for everyone at the studio - from the cast and the crew, right down to the riggers and the catering staff,” a Paint Hall source told the newspaper.
“Game of Thrones” author George R. R. Martin wrote about HBO moving forward with a pilot order in a June 11 blog post.
“To clarify, what we have here is a pilot order, not as yet a series order,” he wrote at the time about the project, which is being helmed by showrunner Jane Goldman. “Though of course we are all hoping that will follow.”
Unfortunately, “Game of Thrones” fans will still have to say goodbye to their favorite characters. Martin said no one from the original cast will reappear in the new show, which will predate their world by thousands of years.
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LOL OK - it’s way back then.
Awesome!! Thanks for the heads up!
“I started GoT late, so I binged the first couple of seasons.”
I didn’t get the bug until season 5, when I bought it on DVD from season 1 and binge-watched for a few months. Then bought the books and read it all. I want to watch it all again before the final season airs, and I will enjoy it immensely after being GoT starved for awhile.
Bout damn time
Gonna be epic
Chicken
The quality of the writing and the plotting on Game of Thrones declined sharply once the show outran the books. I’m always ready to be pleasantly surprised, but I’m skeptical about a prequel that will be entirely the product of the screenwriters and show runners, with only broad conceptual guidance from GRRM. The movie and tv people turn out sword and sorcery stuff regularly; it goes in and out of fashion, and most of it is trash. The trick in mixing magical elements into a quasi-realistic fictional world is to keep the magic mysterious and held in check, so that the human characters have real agency. Tolkien managed this. Most of his imitators failed. Even Peter Jackson, who did a splendid job with the first LOTR movies, quickly jumped the shark. The LOTR movies declined in each iteration and, by The Hobbit, Jackson had turned Tolkien’s world into a comic book franchise. GRRM manages the trick in the books, but the show runners are clearly not up to the task. The tv people have a cash cow and they’ll probably run it into the dirt sooner rather than later.
Good point. Hollyweird writers either want to or are told to add the SJW crap into every storyline these days which ruins much of it right out of the gate. If they could (big if) lose that tendency; tv and movies would improve by half.
Last year, before the new season began, we decided to look at the previous season again. After we did, we decided to just go back to the Season 1 and watch it all, in order, on a binge.
I was really able to see the foreshadowing that was going on from the very first season. Hubby and I were glad we did that just before the first half of the ending of the show was shown. We enjoyed the binge very much.
I thought "Battle of the Bastards" was terrific; and, very large screen in its scope. Quite thrilling, really. I was so impressed by that episode.
I’m finding any of the complex shows that continue into the next episode are okay to watch as they come out weekly but to really appreciate them they really must be binge watched to get the full flavor.
Maybe it’s just my memory for remembering the details a week apart or even 6 months to a year apart.
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