It sounds like they may be filming the tourney, if not today, very soon. Thanks to silverjaime, we know the tourney scene is going to be filmed on the grounds of Shane’s Castle, on the banks of a nearby river. It seems they will be shooting tourney scenes for almost a week and a half. It sounds like this is going to be one of the biggest shoots of the first season.
Oh, and we also got this epic sounding tweet from Luke McEwan just now:
Luke_McEwan Is watching the mountain that rides fight the hound. I have never seen 2 bigger men.
UPDATE: It sounds like filming for the tourney will begin next week and will likely last the whole week.
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So does that mean Rast will be introduced at the tourney scene?
NymeriaQuote Reply
This will be EPIC!!!
JasonQuote Reply
Awesome, awesome twittering!
Petter Kristian VikestadQuote Reply
It means one of two things, 1) McEwan is doing combat training and is watching while Stevens and McCann practice their fight, or 2) he is on set watching them film the tourney scenes because, well… why the hell not? I’m leaning towards number one though.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Oh, my! And we even got “one of our own” on the scene. Yes, epic is the word! I really hope they make a big deal out of the tourney in the episode it’ll be in. And i want a “super-ultra-badass” battle between the brothers! If they make it a little cheezy/macho/over-the-top aka the good old 80s early 90s action movies with Stallone etc, that would be perfect!
sjweningsQuote Reply
Man, that sounds awsome! Can’t wait to see it.
dizzy_34Quote Reply
*bouncing all over my room* Aaahhhh Wish I could see them pratice their fight.
Good luck Rimshot and most of all: enjoy it!!!!
LiesieQuote Reply
End credits:
*No real horses were actually decapitated during the filming of this production.
:)
BrianQuote Reply
*Fangasm*
Can’t wait to see it!
edoQuote Reply
*incoherent squealing*
OzXaroQuote Reply
Very much looking forward to this scene in the first season :)
Steve AdamsQuote Reply
So it turns out they were filming in a field of willows at the Leslie Hill Farm in the Ballymoney area
http://www.ballymoneytimes.co.uk/news/Ballymoney-back-in-the-movie.6477801.jp
NymeriaQuote Reply
Yes, that must be it. Makes much more sense
NymeriaQuote Reply
A little more info and photos about the Leslie Hill location
NymeriaQuote Reply
Nice find. I wonder who it was that tipped off the Ballymoney Times to the fact that they were shooting in their town? Hmm…. ;)
A field of willows, huh? Wonder what they were shooting there? I’m still thinking it was scenes from the trek back to King’s Landing.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Rimshot,
Awesome, just awesome!
sjweningsQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
The bolding bug strikes back!!! :)
Seriously though, I think it might be this John Leslie himself who contacted the newspaper to promote his estate a little
NymeriaQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
Also, where did your Twitter feed go?
NymeriaQuote Reply
I just tried to go on Twitter and it is over capacity. Do we credit GoT fanbase?
OldGranQuote Reply
Rimshot,
That’s right. Forgot about you being booked as “King’s Landing Peasant” as well. Either way, this tourney shoot seems pretty big.
Nymeria,
Fixed the bolding bug and I think I know what causes it now, so hopefully I can eliminate it for good. I removed the Twitter updates as it wasn’t updating. I will fix that later today, but until then I removed it.
Also I wouldn’t be too sure about Leslie being the one that contacted the paper. I’m thinking it is someone most of you are familiar with… ;)
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Very exciting news! The Tourney of the Hand was one of my favorite parts on AGOT. Wish I lived in Northern Ireland and could be an extra.
Since they have a full tourney set/stuntmen/extras/actors ready to go, I was wondering if they will film Ned’s dream/flashback of the Tourney of the False Spring when Prince Rhaegar crowns Lyanna Stark the queen of love and beauty? I would LOVE to see Rhaegar and Lyanna but will HBO think they are important enough to include for S1? If we get a S3, they will need to do another tourney filming for Meera’s story of the Knight of the Laughing Tree. Does anyone know if they are casting Prince Rhaegar and Lady Lyanna for S1? The Lyanna flashback “Promise Me, Ned” scenes are important to Ned’s storyline. I would think a Lyanna casting would be a sure thing, but I could be wrong.
winterqueenQuote Reply
With all those twitts, the filing of the Hand s tournament will looks like a live stream of football game!
Epic!!!
The RabbitQuote Reply
Ha! Then very well done sir!
NymeriaQuote Reply
And that would also explain his other tweet where he says he just ate slop! :)
NymeriaQuote Reply
Interesting fact: Michelle Fairley was in the Cup Cake movie filmed in Leslie Hill last year
http://www.colerainetimes.co.uk/news/Coleraine-actress-back-home-.5768566.jp
NymeriaQuote Reply
The Rabbit,
Yeah, hopefully we’ll get some tweets from Finn Jones, Rimshot and maybe McEwan (if he’s there watching). Of course, once the day is done we should get some good reports from Rimshot and any other extras. And maybe even Conan Stevens.
It’s going to be like the pilot shoot all over again!
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
I wonder what they filmed on the willow field ?
Yay to Nym for finding that.
The RabbitQuote Reply
Nymeria,
Don’t believe it, we passed Leslie Hill at least 3 times on the 4th!!!
PaulaMcQuote Reply
Luke_McEwan’s tweet: absolutely epic!!
Nymeria,
Thanks very much for the Balleymoney article & photos! Seeing the countryside & structures at Leslie Hill really help me envision how the books will come alive. Actually, I’d enjoy seeing those photos even if they weren’t connected with GoT. Beautiful.
Rimshot,
It’s amazing to share your experience as an extra through your posts here! Have fun, my friend. And of course a big thanks for any discreet tweets (..discweets..?) you can share!
BradQuote Reply
So Ran from Westeros says Owen Teale is a recast and he will soon announce more details.
Please, not Jeor Mormont. I mean, Owen Teale seems awesome and even has the look, but I don’t want to lose James Cosmo!
NymeriaQuote Reply
Nymeria,
Another recast? Maybe this production is cursed…
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Hmmm..
It could mean three possibilites IMO: LC Mormont, A. Thorne or Illyrio.
The RabbitQuote Reply
Nymeria,
F*ck… Guess it’s Jeor. Not that i’m said to have him onboard, but at the cost of another awesome actor…
sjweningsQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
At least it’s cursed with strong recasts…
sjweningsQuote Reply
Best news this week, can’t wait for more twitters, posts and spy pics in the coming days. I would love the Clegane bros fight to be similar to the one in El Cid during the tourney scene, but more brutal.
I was so liking the idea of Owen as Donal, perhaps Donal was cast and just hadn’t been announced yet and thus this is a recast.
TysnowQuote Reply
Tysnow,
small chance of that!
NymeriaQuote Reply
sjwenings,
A six-day shoot means that the Tourney could well take most, if not all of one whole episode. Action also takes much longer to shoot than dramatic scenes, so for that it’s not surprising either. I remember being told when I was interning for a production company that was then just finishing up production on the movie “Money Train,” that big action sequences were taking them a whole day to do only a quarter of a page to a half a page from the script.
All the action that can be summed up in a paragraph or two will sometimes be fleshed out into something much bigger on screen, most famously, in the “Ben Hur” script is a sentence something like, “They have a chariot race, Ben Hur wins.” Also, they can technically complicated that they need to spend all day setting up before the shot actually gets done. Again, the aforementioned chariot race in Ben Hur took 5 weeks to shoot a 20-minute sequence (all of it done by the 2nd unit, apparently!).
BrudeQuote Reply
sjwenings,
Seems too young for LC Mormont to me… Wouldn’t Illyrio be more likely since we already think that part is going to be recast? He seems Jowly enough.
userjQuote Reply
If Teale is a recast, I would not be surprised if it’s Jorah Mormont, even. He’d be very right for that role.
BrudeQuote Reply
userj,
True enough… OH, GOD i hope it’s not Tywin!! Not too likely, since he’s definately too young, but… Still…
sjweningsQuote Reply
It’s Alliser Thorne
NymeriaQuote Reply
Nymeria,
Oh… Uh… Ok, i guess. Yeah… He’s not as evil-looking, but it’ll probably work quite well.
sjweningsQuote Reply
That’s too bad, I liked Derek Halligan’s look for Thorne.
But hey, Owen Teale is definitely a good addition to the cast so I’m not complaining.
NymeriaQuote Reply
Yeah I doubt it’s the Old Bear… Thorne or Jorah seem likely but are they even filming Dany stuff yet?
dizzy_34Quote Reply
Nymeria,
Well it appears Owen is quite enjoying himself lately playing the bad roles, with his most recent stage performance as a psycho and then a Nazi in his latest film, so now he can chaulk up a conniving, sniveling, scumbag wannabe knight to his resume.
TysnowQuote Reply
Agreed. Halligan really looked the part. But looking on the bright side, I’m glad Teale will have some lines and some conflict to work with, and won’t have his talents wasted on a more 1-note character like Ilyn Payne.
BradQuote Reply
Rimshot is one lucky guy. The tourney scene would probably be the best scene for an extra in all of season one! All the major characters, in full costume… wow.
LexQuote Reply
It is time to make a new Excel table – this time about the locations, dates of shooting and scenes.
It will be interesting puzzle to resolve.
But everything will wait until I come home in some two weeks.
Everyone with interest in that, feel free to contact me. I ll be glad to share it with you.
The RabbitQuote Reply
the big tease…..cant wait to see some pics
gendry’s hammerQuote Reply
I’m too busy weeping with joy to be coherent here. Clegane bros… I love/hate you!
Franny BeeQuote Reply
As always, this is beyond epic. And even people who have been recast and such have been replaced with wonderful actors, as aforementioned. I know that I for one can not wait to see this all edited and ready for us to enjoy on the screen :)
Can I just also go on a brief tangent and say how awesome of a community this is? I’ve never seen an online forum space with so many people in so many countries that was still able to stay positive basically the entire time, and an odd intimate friendship with like minded people and fans. You guys are great.
That is all :)
Jake StormoenQuote Reply
Gotta agree. *touched*
MongerelQuote Reply
Rimshot,
Lucky! We should totally get screencaps from you and the other extras after your 1st airing episodes pointing out where you are, as long as you and others are comfortable with it. It would be awesome to see and would also give us a game of “spot the WIC cast” to play watching the episodes. Have fun, and thanks for the info on your filming.
SJGIMQuote Reply
Rimshot,
Oh, I almost forgot, break a leg over there (not literally) :)
SJGIMQuote Reply
SJGIM,
I think at this point Rimshot needs his own photo on the casting page :)
Phoenix_tornQuote Reply
I do not want that our special spy would be in trouble…so I am gonna write it down here.
It seems that they are shooting something involving Ser Gregor today.
The RabbitQuote Reply
Trying to solve the puzzle of today s filming:
A) Knights arriving in KL for the Tourney?
B) Gregor s raids in Riverland or somewhere else? (maybe too early for that ?)
The RabbitQuote Reply
Hello,
I just found out, my mate is going to be a “stark Guard” and will be filming all of next week on this show. He won’t tell me anything about it, but just the thought of it sounds ace. What is a stark guard? Are there many of them? If this is a tourney (tournament???) wil he be fighting or something like that? IT would be so cool to be in something like that.
JealousGuyQuote Reply
JealousGuy,
The Starks are a noble family. A Stark Guard is just that, one of the guards employed by the Starks. Most likely he will just be standing around (in a cool uniform). The only fighting at the tourney is done by knights.
LexQuote Reply
A “stark guard” actually means stark naked. He is a fierce warrior of a dark ages society that fights naked with rocks and sticks. I’m just kidding, you won’t get to see your buddy naked. “Stark guard” actually refers to the use of light and shadow, as your friend will most likely be darkly lit, but will stand in stark contrast to the (most likely) cgi background, which will glow like the surface of the sun. It’ll be kinda like the last fifteen minutes of ‘Sunshine’.
JackSparrowQuote Reply
Cool…and thank goodness he won’t be in the bufty….that would not be a good look for him! So there is loads of guards then? HA! So he can’t try bluffing that he is something important or special. He has been telling me that he can’t possibly tell us any details of his outfit or what he is at. But should be fun looking out for his red hair in a sea of shadow once this is on the box!
JealousGuyQuote Reply
JealousGuy,
Don’t listen to Jack Sparrow, he’s just joking around! :)
Like I said, the Starks are one of the main noble families in this medieval world. Sean Bean plays Eddard Stark. Your friend will be one of his household guards, maybe even standing right behind him or another Stark family member. He’ll definitely get to see some really cool stuff on set!
As for the secrecy, is this something he was told on set? All the extras are being very respectful of the secrecy, but I’m wondering if they are given specific instructions or even made to sign contracts.
LexQuote Reply
Weather update: Late next week is not going to be good weather time for Ireland according to Weatherunderground, some of the computer models show a strong North Atlantic storm building with tropical strom force winds, that should arrive late Wednesday or Thursday, anyway it will be a very windy and rainy 3-4 days, clearing by Sunday. I checked the local weather stations over there in Ireland, and they don’t predict anything major, just rain showers late Wed-Sat.
Well they could shoot outdoor stormy seas shots for Pike and Dragonstone (Birth of Dany) and archive them for later use. A good director and crew utilizes cool weather phenom to give some scenes an extra cool factor.
What scene would look cool for them to film in stormy conditions, even if the scene was not scheduled.
TysnowQuote Reply
Tysnow,
Probably too early to shoot it, but the scene where Ned is “chastized” by Jaime would be cool on a stormy night.
Avalanche3319Quote Reply
Phoenix_torn,
Too true.
Avalanche3319,
Agreed, bad events happening during a storm are one of those cliches that still looks cool and just never gets old.
SJGIMQuote Reply
Avalanche3319,
Good idea, if the actors and extras are available and the set already built, the director has perhaps two maybe three days to schedule that scene inbetween the others for this block. They can shoot it and archive it, in the golden age of Hollywood, the great directors would do this type of adjust the schedule and shoot while there is unusual weather occuring that would add to a scene. Then when the weather passed they would go back to the set shooting schedule.
TysnowQuote Reply
SJGIM,
Definitely, I mean it would be awesome to have rain dripping off their armor, capes flapping in the wind, which howls in the background. The fighting ensues with blood and water mixing on the cobblestone avenues or if dirt streets turning it muddy. I can see Ned trapped under horse with the bloody water flowing around him as he watches his men fall to flashes of lightning.
Although prior to this we see him take down a couple of Lannister’s. The audience should get a taste of what Ned can do in battle even if its for just 30 seconds, afterall its our only opportunity minus the Tower of Joy.
TysnowQuote Reply
Tysnow,
Ooops!, forgot to use the spoiler option.
TysnowQuote Reply
Link to the Aug 25th forecastmodel, go to post 1588 you can see the storm approaching Ireland, the Big L with all the isobar rings circling it.
TysnowQuote Reply
Tysnow,
For those wanting to read the model forecast pic, if you look at the model you will see a box with the word Gale inside it near the top of the approaching storm, that means Gale Force Winds, which are over 33 knots (42 mph) to 47 knots (62 mph), so Ireland could be in for some extremely windy and of course raining days late in the week.
TysnowQuote Reply
This GPS weather model link is a good way to watch the approaching weather systems for Ireland. Once you go to the main page, click on the box that encompasses the North Atlantic, then on next page click on the box the includes Ireland. The next page has different tabs, the first one is the GPS wind speed which is the default model run. You can use the previous, next or animate buttons to forward for a week through the weather model forecast run, or backwards to today. There are other models for pressure, wave height and precipitation.
TysnowQuote Reply
Three words: Tower of Joy.
Don’t remember if it was raining during the scene in the books, but I always pictured it dark and stormy, with the only light being bright flashes of lightning. Very atmospheric.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Tysnow,
It would look pretty awesome, I can see it now. Especially if they could position it so the wind was blowing toward Jaime, causing his cape to billow behind him, making his approach that much more intimidating. We could have the crimson water mixing with the crimson colors of the lannister men, and having an opportunity to see Ned fight is great. (Personally I am hoping for flashbacks in which we will get to see a little more action, although this will be difficult with how different some characters are supposed to look).
SJGIMQuote Reply
If I were the director I would definitly use this storm on wednesday for shooting Sandor & Sansa “little chat” after the tourney.
The RabbitQuote Reply
First day of filming today.. I’m tired but just wanted to say how amazing everything looks…
YoYanTamQuote Reply
YoYanTam,
Care to say any more about how amazing things look?
dizzy_34Quote Reply
Well looks like the Tourney filming is good for all week, the weather GFS model now has that storm taking a right turn tomorrow and heading for France instead of Ireland.
But there is hope on the horizon for a real nasty blow in over a week if Danielle heads toward Ireland, to early to tell atm though. The production crew needs to keep that storm in the back of their minds just in case and perhaps if the cards fall right there will be some really cool weather to shoot some scenes in within 10-12 days, of course only if the storm is not to strong, otherwise its too dangerous.
TysnowQuote Reply
Tysnow: WiC’s Weather Man! ;)
Thanks for keeping an eye on the radar screen, man. I would say, all things considered, I’d rather the storm miss them so they can film the scenes they need to film and don’t get behind schedule.
However, if it does hit Belfast, I hope they make good use of it.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply