Casting breakdowns are what casting directors use to advertise what roles are available for auditions. Generally these are given to talent agents who then set up auditions for any of their clients that fit the criteria laid out. They contain not only descriptions of the roles available, but also what sort of time commitment is required for the character. While searching the web for a full Game of Thrones breakdown turned up nothing, I did find a couple of tidbits of info from folks who claim to have seen the breakdowns.
First, an actress named Michele Boyd twittered about seeing a Thrones breakdown. Here is what she said in response to someone who asked if she was going to be auditioning for a role.
would kill for the chance, but they were only looking for Cersei, Jamie and Khal Drogo…I am none of those :(
Also I found the following info thanks to this thread discussing possible casting directors over at the Westeros forums. A poster in that thread links to a thread on the Naruto forums (of all places) where someone claims to be auditioning for Robb, Jon and Theon. Here is what he has to say about the breakdown for those roles.
According to the character breakdown, the first season looks to be 10 episodes long, because it says that Jon Snow will be needed for 10 episodes. And then for all series. Whereas Robb’s only needed for 8 episodes of series one, and then stays until season 3. Whilst Theon is needed for 7 episodes for season 1,, and will return in seasons 2 and 4.
Winter Is Coming: Couple of interesting things can be gleaned from this info. First, Michele Boyd is based out of LA so I have to assume she saw an LA casting breakdown. Does that mean they are looking in LA specifically for Cersei, Jaime and Khal Drogo? Many people have stated that they always imagined the Lannisters as sort of American. With Dinklage already in as Tyrion, maybe they want Americans for the other two Lannister siblings?
Secondly, the episode counts, 10 episodes is a bit less than what most people were expecting. Obviously this number could change, but I hope they are giving themselves enough time to tell the whole story. Also, Theon being needed for seasons 1 and 2 are obvious, but they say he will return in season 4. Confirmation that A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons will be combined into one season?
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Nice stuff, Winter. That kid mentions Nina Gold, a casting director in London.
AnonymousQuote Reply
I'd think that it is perfectly reasonable that Jon could "not be" in 2 episodes.
Your keeping me coming back everyday Winter!
Pat E
AnonymousQuote Reply
Looking for Khal Drogo in LA makes sense. He could be played by an actor of Polynesian descent.
OmagusQuote Reply
Its possible that Jon won't even be there for more than two episodes of series 1. After all, the stark family separates pretty early on, and most of the events that occur are not by the wall. Maybe the rest of the episodes do not have scenes by the wall and instead focus on things happening in winterfell, king's landing, and with dany. John's part is only about 1/4 of the plot, and he is completely out of touch with the rest of the characters once he becomes a member of the night watch.
AnonymousQuote Reply
Don't know much about casting directors but just googled her and found a resume on her agents site, seems very impressive!
http://www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk/page.asp?partid=118
Looks like the casting is in good hands anyway:)
AnonymousQuote Reply
I'd imagine that Jon will need to be in most of the episodes just for continuity reasons. Fans of the series won't want to have to wait weeks inbetween Jon scenes. Even purists who want a blow by blow recreation of the books will understand the need to keep the main characters present in order to build recognition. The actors on the wall will mostly be apart from the rest of the cast so they can do all the Wall scenes at once to free up those cast members and edit the scenes in as needed.
The thing I find most interesting is reading between the lines of Theon's casting requirements. Yes it looks as though his presence in season four may mean Feast and Dance will be merged. More interesting though is the lack of need past season four. The actor playing Jon will be needed for the length of the series. Theon specifically will be needed for seasons 1 2 and 4. Could this mean Theon Turncloak will meet his demise in season 4? If so, my desire for Dance just got amped up even more. C'mon GRRM! I wanna see some Kraken Calamari in Dance.
LordnedsheadQuote Reply
P.S. Great topic Winter! And excellent sleuthing skills to find out the little tidbits you did.
LordnedsheadQuote Reply
This also implies that GRRM has given a full story outline to the last book to HBO. I'm not surprised if he is working on the remaining the books laterally to work out a good ending with no loose ends, hence the delay.
AnonymousQuote Reply
Would some of these actors have had a casting call if available? http://www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk/page.asp?partid=3
Given they are represented by the same company as the casting director, thats is of course if the information is genuine and it is Nina Gold, they do seem well established.
AnonymousQuote Reply
@Lordnedshead: I understand your point about keeping the characters there for continuity sake, but not all shows follow that as a rule. Lost has often excluded main characters like Jack or Locke for a few episodes. Especially with the amount of different events in different places in a Game of Thrones it is possible they will focus a little more on some characters rather than others from episode to episode.
Your Theon observation is a very good one – well spotted! I would think you might be right, his days are numbered!
JGQuote Reply
Nice job Winter!
10 episodes doesn't seem like a lot of time to cover the first book. Jon will probably only appear in 10 episodes.
BubbaQuote Reply
10 episodes sounds fine to me. The GoT hard back is 700 pages, so roughly 70 pages per episode, if they choose to cut it up like that. 10 hours is A LOT of time to tell a story.
12/13 would be better, but 10 is doable.
AnonymousQuote Reply
I'd suspect the reason they're only talking about characters up to season 4 is that, as of this moment in time, they can only plan up to season 4 because there are only four source novels available. I don't think we can read too much into that with regards to when characters are going to be killed off.
When they say Jon is needed for the length of the series, they'd mean that he's needed in every season that they know of so far.
SilverstarQuote Reply
I agree with Silverstar. I doubt GRRM wants his plotlines to be leaked like that and surely he realises how easily word goes around.
American Lannisters don't work for me. Not at all :( I hope it's only because Cersei and especially Jaime are tough to cast and therefore they have widened the search area. When it comes to Khal Drogo, it makes sense to cast an american. There are a lot of exotic-looking people there
KaisaQuote Reply
Anonymus,
I don't agree with you. I think, seventy pages are too much in one episode.
This means, that an episode includes ~10 chapters. This time the details will be lost.
I think that 20-22 episode required / book.
Rookie_6Quote Reply
Nice juicy tidbits of info, thank you Winter! You're missing some text in the second paragraph of your comment within the post.
Hoped for 12 seasons, but 10 might just do if that's really the case, with some excellent writing (they should be able to expand the number slightly in the next seasons, while ten in the first one will keep the costs down and amaze the HBO directors even more :P). The Tudors did a good job telling the story in 10 episodes the first two seasons (I liked the first half of the third one best, though, both pace- and plotwise, but then it ended badly when it was wrapped up in 8 episodes), and Rome was 12 and 10.
MarkoQuote Reply
Rule of thumb when shooting is 1 page a minute. So yes… 70 pages an episode is on the fat side.
Ian MQuote Reply
In the book there is a pretty big section (chapter 28 to 42) and a slightly smaller one (61-71) without any Jon POV chapters. If they stick for the book Jon will be absent for at least one episode, which makes me believe it will just be 12 episodes.
If you think this casting breakdown has somehow hinted that Theon will die in DwD you need to get your eyes checked. It simply states that he will return for season 4.
t shows that they plan on integrating aFFC and DwD though, but anybody should realise that having your most popular characters absent for an entire season is a bad thing.
AnonymousQuote Reply
They could still turn aFFC and DwD into two seasons, just not split by characters like the books. This is a long way off though, and much can happen, no reason to get too excited about season 4 yet :)
DliwirQuote Reply
I agree that 10 episodes could easily just mean that Jon will not be in two of the episodes. This might just be about the chronology of events in the story. To keep consistency, they might need to focus on other areas more for two episodes before coming back to him – otherwise Jon might be doing things in our story before he does them in the sequence of events in the story. Might not matter much because he's so far away, but in terms of plotting – making the flow of the story work right, it might be it's better to do it this way.
Or maybe it's just 10 episodes – remember, GoT is the shortest of the first 3 novels. If the series was 12 episodes for GoT, then SoS might need to be 14 or 15 episodes.
The fact that they are only apparently casting those 3 roles in L.A. could be for a number of reasons. I think it's possible this is a second round of breakdowns this actress saw, I think the other roles might be either cast, or at least narrowed down to the final few. I say this because she just saw these breakdowns in the last day or so, it seems. Breakdowns would have gone out a couple of weeks ago for everything back when we first started getting reports of people going up for roles. When casting starts to drag out for something you will start seeing the breakdowns get repeated for those roles needed. This is so agents/managers know these roles are still open, of course.
One thing to note about the Drogo role, Martin has stated that the Dothraki are described physically as looking like Native Americans, though having a fantasy version of a Mongol-like culture, of course. Obviously, the best place to look for Native American actors is in the U.S., so I'm guessing the focus of the search is here.
Rule of thumb when shooting is 1 page a minute. So yes… 70 pages an episode is on the fat side.
The previous poster was talking about an average of 70 novel pages being condensed into a single episode each. That doesn't necessarily coincide with the 1p/minute run-time that a screenplay averages.
We know that the pilot script will end at "the things I do for love," which comes in on p. 71 of the US hardback (or p. 84 of the US paperback). However, if the script that got released is real, it may also include Dany's wedding, which comes after this point – albeit fit in at an earlier moment in the script. Dramatically, for the show, I think it makes sense to get on with Dany's wedding in the pilot. Her story really begins there, the scene before that (also in the leaked script) is important for set-up, but is not really the beginning of her story. Of course ending the pilot with "things I do for love," is perfect.
As for Theon showing up in Season 4, well, he isn't in AFFC but anyone who has read the sample chapters now available for ADWD will know that…no, I won't spoil it…
BrudeQuote Reply
Brude (Brood? Be rude?) took most of the words right out of my hand.
Being the obsessive ASoIaF freak I am, and having a semi-limited experience with screen writing, I took the personal liberty of breaking down A Game of Thrones into what I considered to be viable episode lengths with appropriate (cliffhanger, etc.) endings.
Please note that the chapters covered in the leaked pilot script account for 94 pages (U.S. paperback version) of A Game of Thrones, and this includes skipping two chapters in order to grab Dany's wedding to Drogo, as the leaked script showed and has been pointed out. The book itself has 807 pages, which, if it balances approximately the same and adheres to the same basic principles, would grant approximately NINE episodes.
Dramatically, I figured I could stretch and do TEN episodes, with decent hooks and teasers thrown in.
But no more than that. I personally think that anything longer than ten episodes, we're throwing other things into this season, such as elongated flashbacks of Robert's Rebellion, etc. They could "expand" on a few things, to be sure.
I'm by no means an expert, but this looks like ten episodes to me.
About Yea HighQuote Reply
Good stuff Winter.
dizzyQuote Reply
Very interesting…
PD: You have new tibits on Tom Payne twitter:
Just seen a projected cast list for Game of Thrones that puts Kaya Scodelario from skins as daenerys. Would be a fun reunion if it happened!
Slightly worried I may have said too much and damaged my chances re: GoT . Ah well, win some lose some. Such is life.
EnekoQuote Reply
The real bad news from this latest Twitter post is that if word is getting out its not in the actor's best interest to be too talktative about potential GoT roles then we're not likely to get much more news via this time of medium
DanQuote Reply
Exactly what I was thinking. Stupid Twitter…
dizzyQuote Reply
This only makes me think,once aagain that this series will be ordered…it is just a formality now!
coltaine777Quote Reply
I've heard the 10-episode thing a couple of other times as well. I think one of the Northern Ireland press releases mentioned it as well. It would make sense to have AGoT as 10 episodes, ACoK as 12 and ASoS as 14, with ADWD and AFFC folded into one season (say 14-15 episodes). You can't give half the cast a whole year off and expect them all to come back. That's bitten shows on the ass before, whilst if it is just Theon by himself taking a year off you can always recast the role.
The best thing about this news is that it indicates that the writers and producers are starting to plan much further ahead then we previously thought, a sign of confidence which is encouraging and bodes well.
Adam WhiteheadQuote Reply
10 episodes does sound about right. And it should mean that each one is action-packed which will help keep viewers hooked.
This is all really exciting. As I'm sure a lot people out there did too, I read the books constantly thinking about what a great film/tv series they would make. GRRM has a knack for ending each chapter with a bit of cliffhanger so you're left always wanting more. That's going to fit perfectly within an episodic tv series framework.
People are going to LOVE this show!
dholdsQuote Reply
I didn't take it that HBO was unhappy with Payne's comments. Rather that Payne noticed that his tweets were drawing attention in the fan community and became worried that this would lead to him losing the role. I would hope that HBO would still consider him, if they felt he was good for the role.
AFAIK, there is nothing that states actors can't talk about roles they are auditioning for. I just assumed that most actors didn't talk about this stuff publicly because if they didn't get the role it would be embarrassing or potentially damaging to their career. I don't think there is any NDA or contract signed when you go on an audition, although it could just be an unwritten rule that you don't talk about that stuff publicly. Maybe someone with more knowledge of the entertainment industry can fill us in (Brude?).
WinterIsComingQuote Reply
Actors twittering/blogging about their auditions is really a new problem that casting directors and producers will probably need to start addressing soon, if they aren't already. It might be that it becomes standard procedure to let all actors know not to talk about the roles they are auditioning for or else it might affect their chances – this assumes they even really care. But before the internet this sort of thing just didn't matter much. People in the biz would talk freely about who's been up for whatever, but it wouldn't go much past that.
The best thing about this news is that it indicates that the writers and producers are starting to plan much further ahead then we previously thought, a sign of confidence which is encouraging and bodes well.
When a potential TV series is being considered by a network, the writers create a "series bible" which is basically an outline of the entire show, including episode breakdown for at least a single season in surprisingly great detail, and usually includes a more rough breakdown of the following seasons. This way you get a sense of the overall story arc for a show as it progresses over a long period of time. So for them to know the breakdown over the next several seasons is to be expected (though it will inevitably change over time).
Not so long ago the series bible for "The Wire" got released on the Web, and is probably still easy to find. It was a bit unusual in my experience as series bibles go because the summary of the first episode was very nearly an entire screenplay, written in a kind of prose format. Also, they only described Season 1 in any detail, with only a very rough outline of the over all arc of the entire series.
BrudeQuote Reply
Brude: Thanks for the info. This geek/internet culture certainly has produced more scrutiny on casting decisions then ever before. I would be curious to know whether HBO (or any other network for that matter), is more pleased by this or concerned? On one hand, it helps create buzz for the show. On the other hand, it opens them up to more criticism.
WinterIsComingQuote Reply
I'd go by the old maxim on that, "there's no such thing as bad publicity."
BrudeQuote Reply
I met someone the other night who is working on the production – Winter's assumption is correct – the first season will be 10 episodes long.
AnonymousQuote Reply
Any concern about 10 episodes not being enough should also check out ROME Season 2, where they had to cover 14-odd years of history (including three civil wars and two of the biggest battles in Roman history) in just 10 episodes and pulled it off brilliantly. The more relaxed pace of Season 1's 13 episodes was missed a bit, particularly the Jewish uprising storyline which was cut off abruptly in S2, but the much greater focus and energy was very impressive to see.
I think they can handle all of AGoT in 10 episodes and if that is successful, they should be able to get the extra episodes needed from S2 onwards.
Adam WhiteheadQuote Reply
Alternate theory: they're going back to GRRM's Plan A and having a five-year gap between Seasons 3 and 4, allowing them to recast the child actors as young adults. THAT would be interesting.
:-O
Adam WhiteheadQuote Reply
Interesting tidbit from the IMDb boards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/board/thread/140241205
BrudeQuote Reply
@Adam Whitehead…..I think your bang on….there gonna age the actors just like Rome did with octavious….:.I have no problem with that….the gladiator episode of Rome is the most exciting episode of tv I have ever seen .::Rome rocked……Many poster have speculated we won't see the pilot until 2011…..I can't see them waiting that long.
Winter….when do you think they will air the pilot and any idea what nite they would likely show it…..how bout what time of yr(month) ?
coltaine777Quote Reply
I think Americans for the Lannisters is a great idea, especially as Americans are seen by much of the rest of the world as bad guys these days.
AnonymousQuote Reply
by the way…..Winteriscoming….I love this site….:the posters are wicked….especially Brude,Adam Whitehead, Siverstar,Dholds .:: there so many….I've learned alot about the business works :::::.just a shoutout to everyone ….we have a great community of fans here and I love it !!!
coltaine777Quote Reply
Regarding the 2011 thing, I think it is simple logistics. Brude knows more about this than me but my take:
The pilot will film in October 2009. Normally HBO makes a decision in 4-6 weeks, but will likely be delayed by Christmas. So the earliest I expect that decision will be January 2010. I had originally assumed that they had a tight time limit on this as they'd be paying for storage of the sets at the studio which is pretty expensive, but now we know they're getting the studio for free in return for employing local personnel, so maybe this isn't an issue.
With that in mind I can see them making a firm decision in January or February 2010. If they REALLY like what they see, it could be November or December 2009, even earlier just based on the dailies, but that would be pretty fast and unusual for HBO.
Assuming that is the case, they need to regroup the cast and crew and start filming again (and I'm assuming Benioff and Weiss will have scripts for another 3-4 episodes prepared in readiness for this situation), presumably in the spring or summer of 2010. Filming the remaining nine episodes will likely take 3-5 months based on previous HBO production times. You then have to factor in post-production (which will likely be heavier for this series than anything HBO has done before). That takes you pretty much to the end of 2010.
At different times GRRM, Benioff and Weiss have also that "Winter is Coming," will be the show's tagline, so they really have to show it in the winter. My guess then is that the earliest we will see it on-screen will be January 2011, and even that could be pushing it. I wouldn't even rule out it not getting on-screen until late 2011, except that HBO might want to get cracking on Season 2 more quickly whilst the kids are still young, which would mean they'd need to show Season 1 earlier to get the ratings to decide on a yes or no decision for a second season.
HBO pilots are for internal consumption only. Unless it is leaked, we will never see it by itself, only when it airs as part of the completed series.
Adam WhiteheadQuote Reply
Just to clarify. Yeah its possible for Jon to be excluded from an episode or two. I just hope if they feel the need they wait a bit. Its going to be really really important to establish the main characters earlier on in a medium where the viewer can't reread line over again if they need to absorb who is actually doing what and when and where they are doing it. Yeah I know you can just hit rewind, but it breaks up the experience in tv and movies more than it does in a book.
I just don't want people losing interest in Jon or the series as a whole because all of a sudden the cut back to him and new fans can't remember who he was or why the story has suddenly shifted in a comepletly different direction.
I know all of us here are comitted enough to stick around and figure it out (not that we won't know who Jon is) but new viewrs might just switch to Family Guy if they get lost.
Keeping Jon (Or Dany) out of an episode or two later in the series wouldn't be the most horrible thing to happen. I just hope HBO does its best to make sure that new viewrs will stay interested in all the storyline before they decide to skip over some of them for a while.
LordnedsheadQuote Reply
@Adam Whitehead….I was thinking that they would show the pilot (public)and then see the reaction ( ratings ) and then decide …..that's not the way it works eh…I've read that hear before but I was just praying we would get a look….Who has the final say?….any idea:…HBO president of programing ?…Who is that ?
coltaine777Quote Reply
Coltaine – What you are thinking of happens sometimes, but it is what is called a backdoor pilot. That is when a network will air a mini-series or tv movie and if the ratings are good they will commission a series based on it. Think Battlestar Galactica for example.
However, the vast majority of shows film a pilot which is screened only for the network, which will then make the decision to go forward or not. To my knowledge this is almost exclusively how HBO operates and will def will be how GoT proceeds.
The other thing to keep in mind is that HBO is a subscription based network not a commercial based network, so ratings are not all that important. Ratings determine how much a show can charge companies for commercials. What is important to HBO is not if something has particularly high ratings, but if something is getting a lot of critical praise and buzz so that it will attract new subscribers.
DanQuote Reply
@Dan…..thanks
coltaine777Quote Reply
"However, the vast majority of shows film a pilot which is screened only for the network, which will then make the decision to go forward or not."
I can think of at least 2 examples were actors were changed when the pilot turned into a full series – Buffy The Vampire Slayer had a different Willow in the pilot and HBO's True Blood had a different Tara in the pilot and both pilots were never shown to the public (though BTVS's pilot somehow got to the internet and it's not something any of the participants is proud of).
From Wikipedia, True Blood's pilot was filmed in summer 2007 and the first season was broadcasted in september 2008. Another example – Rome started filming in march 2004 and was broadcasted only app. 1.5 later.
So the earliest we might see AGOT series is around Christmas 2010, but first quarter of 2011 sounds more plausible.
AnonymousQuote Reply
Isn't the BTVS pilot on the DVD's? It might be just some scenes from it, but I am pretty sure I saw it in the extras there. I know it wasn't online.
BrudeQuote Reply
Yeah I think that happens a lot actually. The American Life on Mars filmed the pilot, got picked up then changed the entire cast other than the lead.
Who knows, we could be spending all these months speculating on casting finally to find out and then have it all be meaningless when HBO picks up the show but decides to recast half the ensemble.
DanQuote Reply
You know, I never really thought about it but the Lannister DO ooze American arrogance. I love the idea of casting Americans for their roles.
AnonymousQuote Reply
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/noises-off-casting-director-nina-gold-on-english-roles-going-to-foreigners-825921.html < nice article by Nina Gold about casting americans to play brits. I guess we shouldnt worry about casting being perfect. :D
AnonymousQuote Reply
Check this out:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/board/thread/140296254
Casting sides went out in Los Angeles for 16 characters recently:
Arya
Bran
Catelyn
Cersei
Daenerys
Drogo
Jamie Lannister
Jon Snow
King Robert
Ned
Prince Joffrey
Robb Stark
Sansa
Ser Jorah
Theon
Viserys
This to me suggests they are potentially casting in all of the locations (London, LA, Dublin and presumably Belfast as well), rather that just specifically matching characters to nationalities.
Adam WhiteheadQuote Reply
Nice, Adam. Direct link to showfax: http://www.showfax.com/role_selection.cfm?l=1&t=2&p=101370 (confirms Nina Gold as Casting Director)
AnonymousQuote Reply
The person who posted the note about this on IMDb has written a description of the Jaime scenes and it confirms that the leaked script was indeed real. The scenes described are the brothel scene and the banquet scene as I read them.
It's interesting that they've posted these new sides apparently on June 10th, and no Tyrion in that list obviously since that role is cast…sounds like they are still looking for most of the cast. I had hoped they had most of it nailed down. Or maybe they do have some good candidates but are casting a wider net to be sure.
Maybe some bigger names are interested in the show, and so are getting looked at too.
BrudeQuote Reply
So does this mean they are auditioning for all of these parts mentioned in LA too?
Seems a bit odd as they were doing the recalls in the UK this week so must be very close to finalising some of the parts.
AnonymousQuote Reply
Now this is interesting:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/board/thread/140296254?d=140299474&p=1#140299474
A Jaime piece of script in the comments to the IMDB link…
AnonymousQuote Reply
Why would anyone need to pay for sides? Looks like someone trying to make a buck to me. Not credible at all.
AnonymousQuote Reply
Showfax is a service that provides sides to actors and agents. It was around 10 years ago when I was working in the business and everyone used it. I think it was around for quite a while before my time, too. Sometimes we got sides faxed to us from the casting directors (this was before everything was done on PDF), sometimes we got them from Showfax and some of our actors had access to it and just got them themselves.
The nominal subscription fee is how most get them, but for people that don't have subscriptions you can pay for them per page. Why pay? Convenience, ease of use. If one needs sides at the last minute it's by far the best way and sometimes actors got called for auditions at 10:00 AM for a 2:00 PM audition. In the old days an actor might have to run across town to their agent to pick up sides, then run back across town to the audition location. Now it's all made easier for them and they can focus on learning their lines and getting ready.
BrudeQuote Reply
I see what you mean Brude and cheers for the info. In my expierience you just get emailed anything via these days PDF as you say. I suppose what makes me cynical is that when you put them online like that and charge for them they are available to everyone, even those who don't need to be seeing them.
Just makes me think that even though they have the sides for lots of characters it doesn't mean they are auditioning in the US for all of them that are listed. Especially as casting in the UK for some of the characters has very much reached the business end. I know a few people who have been up for roles and have heard that everyone (from the production side) who needed to be present at the last round of casting was.
That indicates to me they are close to casting some of the parts. These are busy people, they don't travel all the way to the UK just to sample the weather.
AnonymousQuote Reply
I would be interested to see Jaime's sides and then compare the dialogue to the leaked script one and see what improvements they made, if any.
MarkoQuote Reply
I found it strange too that sides went up just a few days ago for roles that have been casting a while, and for so many of them – really every major role save Tyrion, who is cast. It's strange and made me think that casting might be going badly, somehow. I still don't know what's going on with that. Supposedly breakdowns went out on or about the 9th for just 3 roles (at least that's what that one actress' twitter suggested), so why all of these sides, I don't know.
Might be Showfax just got the whole batch from the casting directors and put them all up, not correlating them with the breakdowns that went out. (I honestly don't know/remember if the breakdown service has any relation to Showfax or not, but they do link at the top to breakdownexpress.com.)
It's interesting that the Drogo role has 10 pages of sides because he has almost no lines in the pilot (and scant lines in the novels as a whole). It's a major role, but he's a "strong, silent type" to the extreme. I have a feeling they have included lines from what will be later episodes in his sides because there just isn't enough in the pilot script (which I've read) to justify 10 pages of sides for him. In the version of the pilot script that I have he literally has 6 lines and a grand total of 6 words of dialogue, and all six words are really the same word…"no."
BrudeQuote Reply
Not read the leaked script but going by the one I have seen you have it spot on 6 lines and each of them "No", obviously not much for anyone to work with there so they would have to have come up with something else.
10 pages does seem excessive though, I am guessing it could be a 10 page excerpt for another episode with the directions for the audiotionee scribbled on. So much of that 10 pages may not be relevant to drogo, its the lazy way to present a side but it does happen often. Only thing I can think of to justify 10 pages anyway.
AnonymousQuote Reply
A fan purchased the Jaime side and her report over at the Song of Ice and Fire forum makes it sound like it's verbatim from what's been reported of the leaked script. She also purchased the Catelyn sides, and those too seem to fit the reports concerning the leaked script.
I don't know if this means very much — the final polish for the shooting script may not be completed until they shoot, so they may just be using this initial draft script.
BalerionQuote Reply
If they were planning to make the first season only 10 episodes long, they wouldn't have to say:
"Jon Snow will be needed for 10 episodes. And then for all series."
They could just say that he'll be needed for the full series.
AnonymousQuote Reply
I'm not sure why everyone thinks Jon is the main character. After reading the Pilot script I would put Tyrion, Jaime and Dany as the main characters. Tyrion because he is GRRM's favorite and he was the very first to be cast that has to say something, Jaime because he is getting extra lines in the pilot and Dany for obvious reasons.
AnonymousQuote Reply