The Game of Thrones panel at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con is scheduled to begin later today (3 PM PT/6 PM ET/10 PM GMT). The panel will feature writers and producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, cast members Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, and Jason Momoa and will be moderated by writer George R. R. Martin. Quite an impressive panel indeed.
We here at Winter-Is-Coming.net will have compete and comprehensive coverage of this panel. Not only will we have Fire and Blood tweeting live from the event, but myself and Hear Me Roar will be compiling all other fan and journalist tweets and photos into the following live stream (embedded after the jump). It’s like a mega-live blog — the next best thing to being there. So come back at the aforementioned time to follow along!
UPDATE 4:45 PM ET: EW.com is doing a live pre-panel interview with the cast starting NOW! Watch it here.
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Will you guys leave this up after? I might not be able to catch the beginning of it, and would like to peruse it in its entirety.
OhDanyBoyQuote Reply
OhDanyBoy, yup, you will be able to replay/reread the stream after the event is over. And, of course, we will have a full post-panel report from FaB.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Great!
I ll be reading ADWD till midnight than check in here, if I do not fall asleep.
The RabbitQuote Reply
I might stay awake to see it. Or at least attempt to do so…
Ivan PopićQuote Reply
Awesome!
SuperdeluxeQuote Reply
Thanks for the coverage, guys. What name is FaB tweeting under? I don’t remember whether he has more than one account.
Blackfish BluesQuote Reply
Awesome! I love these live blog thingys. Hoping for some casting news, I mean, every role should be filled by now right, shooting starts the 26th?
JohnEngedalQuote Reply
This is going to be a nightmare to read : /
QthulhuQuote Reply
Blackfish Blues, you can follow him on Twitter @Axechucker.
JohnEngedal, not every role, no. Depends on how late into filming their character is needed. Most are likely filled by now though.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
JohnEngedal,
No, every role is probably not filled. They only need certain parts for the first chunk of filming. They’ve already announced the big parts. There’s no reason they can’t cast others much later in the game – even near the middle/end of the shooting schedule several months from now. It all depends on how they schedule things.
Probably won’t be able to watch the feed from work but I’ll check it out later. I’m still crossing my fingers for a video!
KalasinQuote Reply
Kalasin,
Winter Is Coming,
Right, makes sense :) Still, I´ll just hope that Ygritte´s part is filmed early, and that they´ll announce whoever got that part. So excited to know who it is!
John EngedalQuote Reply
John Engedal,
If they follow last year’s format, they will film roughly in the order of the episodes. I expect Ygritte will only be in episodes 9 or 10, so probably a while before they HAVE to announce her. May get that soon anyway, of course.
However, characters like Jaqen and Craster will be very early in the season, so we should get some info on them soon. Hopefully.
OhDanyBoyQuote Reply
OhDanyBoy,
Cool, and damn, I forgot about Jaqen, I´m even more excited about his casting!
Loved that hooded shot of him in Fire And Blood.
John EngedalQuote Reply
Just a quick correction. The 11 PM GMT is actually 11 PM BST because of daylight saving time. In GMT the panel is actually at 10 PM.
RitariKnightQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
thx! That’s the handle I have. Put him in my Favourites. Don’t tell him.
Welp? What is BST?
Blackfish BluesQuote Reply
RitariKnight, right you are, thanks for the correction!
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Blackfish Blues,
British Summer Time.
Johan SporreQuote Reply
Will our dearest Hoff film this glorious event?
Hope someone will, I need to see this.
Also, a little sad that HmR wasn’t mentioned along with you guys in ADWD.
JoohnsonQuote Reply
Johan Sporre,
sssooo… we’re one hour back… it’s 11 PM for us?…
*confused*
*she travelled to Israel*
*no use, she’s still a goat with time zones*
Blackfish BluesQuote Reply
I’m hoping for any kind of Bolton annoucement Balon would be cool too.
dizzy_34Quote Reply
Hehe, here is the current GMT time. You can do the math with your local time to find out what time the panel starts for you.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
I wouldn’t get your hopes up about any casting announcements. From my conversation with HBO people, they were glad to get those big roles confirmed and announced before Comic-Con.
I think the only announcement we might get is a DVD release date. But most likely, it will just be the panel answering questions.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Hello
First time posting. I was hoping you guys could ask the producers a question regarding the second season. If the budget is limited and there might not be a battle of blackwater, if they have thought about having it animated. I know it might be somewhat jarring, but if it could be done like in Kill Bill or the recent Mortal Kombat webseries, also what does everyone else think about that idea. Love this site by the way, I check it out every day.
Jorge OrtizQuote Reply
Blackfish Blues,
BST is the standard time for the isles during summer. Even though Greenwhich is situated there the British time is actually GMT +1 during the summer (’cause Greenwhich never changes for summer).
We in central Europe are at GMT +2 during the summer, so we’ll have the panel at midnight.
Johan SporreQuote Reply
I would like to see a few more cast memebers do these kinds of panels. I love Michelle Fairley, Jack Gleeson, Aiden, and Nikolaj (yum)! I look forward to more interviews and behind the scenes stuff this season. I hope they got some for the DVD release! Please someone ask about the DVD, if you get a chance!
Also, I want to know if the actors think it’s a difficult transition from doing acting in contemporary rolls to fantasy types like this.
Thank you!!!
HandmaidenofDanyQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
Johan Sporre,
Thanks, guys, I love you, but I’m in no condition to do anything else than stand here and keep an eye on things.
“Night gathers, and now my watch begins… it will not end until I learn something about the Blackfish…”
Blackfish BluesQuote Reply
*roles*
HandmaidenofDanyQuote Reply
You’re not alone in hoping for news of a Blackfish. I share your pain, and support your bottom. :] *crosses fingers*
I also share your befuddlement at the time zone thing. I cannot for the life of me figure out what time this thing is going to start, haha.
KangaQuote Reply
Kanga,
In two hours then :)
Johan SporreQuote Reply
Kanga,
Kanga, you’re another of my favourite persons. Assuming I still remember in the morning. If you tinker with my links you’ll find my Twitter, FB etc. Just remind me you are Kanga.
Don’t drink and post, children, don’t drink and post…
Blackfish BluesQuote Reply
Handmaiden: i’d much rather care about the blu-ray release; a series like game of thrones needs to be watched in the best quality available.
metaQuote Reply
meta,
You are absolutely right! LOL
HandmaidenofDanyQuote Reply
Damn, I just noticed that Nikolaj will be there….I NEED Pictures please!!!!! :)
HandmaidenofDanyQuote Reply
A loooooong while back didn’t HBO say something about announcing some big news at ComicCon? This was separate from the recent(ish) casting stuff.
Steve Hugh WestenraQuote Reply
Blackfish Blues,
where are you??? I´ll do your math for you if you want. San Diego time: GMT – 8hs. I´m in Argentina (GMT -3) and 4 hours after San Diego. I have to wait until 2 am I think… without drinking.
andreaQuote Reply
Johan Sporre,
Thank you so very much, lovely ser :)
Blackfish Blues,
I am flattered! You are one of my favorite persons as well. I shall FB you later today, I can’t at the moment since I’m at work and technically should be doing something productive.
Cheers!
KangaQuote Reply
San Diego? Argentina? If only. I love you too, Andrea, whichever gender you are, but I’m in Italy. Not too long to wait for, now.
Blackfish BluesQuote Reply
EW.com is doing a live pre-panel interview with the cast starting NOW! Watch it here.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
doesn’t load for me, damn!
edit: now it does, damn Emilia is hot!!!!
KnurkQuote Reply
I’m excited for Ygritte too.
My office will not let me live stream the EW interview and it is DRIVING ME NUTS.
KalasinQuote Reply
Italia! Love it, my whole family is from Italy. Well, your are 2 hours after Gmt, so it´s 12 pm for you and I did MY math wrong. Here will be at 7 pm… I´m confused now. Sembra contagioso!
andreaQuote Reply
Yaya I got to see it!!!
HandmaidenofDanyQuote Reply
I fuckin love this site….awesome job…
coltaine777Quote Reply
Blackfish Blues,
I almost ALWAYS drink and post! I mean, it´s almost friday.
John EngedalQuote Reply
Wow, luck would have it that I clicked on the EW live stream before coming here! Emilia, Kit, Peter, Lena, and Nikolaj were interviewed. Emilia talked about eating the horse heart and meeting Gwen (Brienne), and Peter said Stephen Dillane is one of his favorite actors. Can’t wait for the full panel :)
Shadowcat85Quote Reply
When the interviewer was going to ask Emilia the number one question they got from the fans, one of the guys piped up (think it was Dinklage) “Phone number?”
Hahaha! FaB started that meme!
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
loading, loading, loading…. is hypnotizing me… nada!
andreaQuote Reply
Nikolaj and Kit were looking damn fine in the EW interview. People best be getting some pics of them at the panel!!!!!
MichelleQuote Reply
finally I see something but… who are these people??? no GoT for sure. Maldición!
andreaQuote Reply
andrea,
Yay! Never been to Argentina but I have a wonderful friend there. I think we’re all related. No contagioso, I confuse everyone…
John Engedal,
NOOO must stay sober – tomorrow is shopping day!
Blackfish BluesQuote Reply
andrea,
The GoT bit finished around 5 pm. I’m sure they’ll have the interviews up later though!
Shadowcat85Quote Reply
Hahahaha, that’s fantastic!
KangaQuote Reply
I am at work so I couldn’t hear it, had to put it on mute, but I got to see it. Hope they have it on EW tonight!
HandmaidenofDanyQuote Reply
Oh my, is FaBio getting in? He’s still not there..
KnurkQuote Reply
Probably, you know that here we´re almost all of italian and spanish descent. Where in Argentina live your friend? I have friends living there too, of course. Not surprise indeed to end up being relatives.
Not confuse any more. Me: 7 pm but I have no hope… it seems that I can´t see anything
andreaQuote Reply
Thanks! I hope so. Maybe in Youtube, it seems the only place where I can watch something.
andreaQuote Reply
How strange it is to see them all sitting together and having fun instead of conspiring against each other. So today-ish and happy.
I’m listening to DwD now and often I catch myself on imagining some characters with the actors’ faces. Not all of them, but some.
Tyrion (Blackwater changed his features a little), Cersei, Jaime, Arya and Catelyn I portrait rather like Amoka’s visions of them, but Dany, Drogo, Robert, Ned, Sansa, Jorah (series discovered this character for me), Tywin and Jon have faces of actors playing them.
And it’s not that I don’t like the cast. It is that way. Just so.
GrzebykKQuote Reply
It doesn’t work, or it’s just me? :(
NiQuote Reply
Is there any place to see the panel live in streaming?
MobiusQuote Reply
andrea,
She’s in Buenos Aires, but I haven’t heard from her in a while. What on earth are you watching?…
Blackfish BluesQuote Reply
Nikolaj
duckeyQuote Reply
Nikolaj
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/y489F1clOqc/Zachary+Levi+at+Comic+Con/Rm9H1P_4oFh/Nikolaj+Coster-Waldau
I don’t know how to edit or delete my previous comment…
duckeyQuote Reply
Aaand of course the HBO commentary site is not working…
http://connect.hbo.com/conversations/game-thrones/game-thrones-comic-con-panel
Not bitter. Just sad, tired and bored. And bitter.
Blackfish BluesQuote Reply
Mobius,
I’d also love to know this.
AlecTrevQuote Reply
http://www.wired.com/video/latest-videos/latest/1815816633/game-of-thrones-actor-shares-personal-reactions-to-controversial-scenes/1069522134001
Nikolaj Wired video
duckeyQuote Reply
Before? some actors I don´t know what show.
Now? loading, loading, loading…
andreaQuote Reply
OMG. Bearded Jaime. I’m feeling faint. *swoon*
userjQuote Reply
http://screenrant.com/comic-con-2011-game-of-thrones-panel-live-blog-mcrid-124532/
Here’s a link to a live blog with direct quotes that’ll supplement what you read here.
RoQuote Reply
Great coverage guys!
It is been a great GOT day.
Good night everybody :)
The RabbitQuote Reply
That was one of the fastest hours I ever experienced. It worked all great.
What was it exactly what was said about the blackwater battle?
DahnQuote Reply
i’m reading ASoS right now. i really wanna get to RW. really wanna know what it is.
João AmaralQuote Reply
So, HBO teased the panel coverage like this on Twitter:
“What Season 2 news will be revealed? The @GameofThrones #SDCC LIVE Panel Commentary begins. CONNECT: http://itsh.bo/GOTpanel #gameofthrones”
http://twitter.com/#!/HBO/status/94164794403336192
What Season 2 news *was* revealed?
Here’s what I got:
1) There will be a Battle of Blackwater
2) We’ll see the direwolves and dragons grow up.
Anything else?
paulgudeQuote Reply
paulgude,
I don’t think you should take what the Game of Thrones or HBO twitter says so literally. It’s just a media guy at the event whose job it is to keep discussion going. Not an HBO executive or anything. Nothing that twitter account says is really meant to be “official” HBO news.
RoQuote Reply
Thank you guys so much for filling up my “Game Insanity”. Much Appreciated!!!
HandmaidenofDanyQuote Reply
I’m not sure I like the comment that in season three things will start to differ from the books. I’m not necessarily asking for strict adherence, but I think that they’re doing an admirable job at adapting A Song of Ice & Fire, and I’d hate to see them make drastic changes in an attempt to “finish off” the series. I may be a bit off-base (seeing as I wasn’t actually at the panel, and therefore have no context), it just struck me as a strange comment to make. And by “finish off”, I mean wrap things up in a way not consistent with the novels.
Then again, I’m the kind of viewer who was fine with the fact that Deadwood ended where it did, simply because if there’s one thing I like less than a series being unceremoniously cancelled, it’s when a series whips together an ending with little notice and rushes through events (kind of like Rome, which had a good second season, but certainly moved far too quickly) to provide “closure”. I guess what I’m saying is I prefer consistency. Actually, I’m not sure what I was trying to say…
*slips away, hopefully unnoticed*
Pastor_of_MuppetsQuote Reply
João Amaral,
You say you wanna get to the RW but you might not really want to get there. :P
CyrylQuote Reply
Thanks. That was fun. I was surprised to see Lena there. She said in an interview that ComicCon fans scare her. Heh.
That Wired interview with Nikolaj is funny: He found the breast-feeding scene as disturbing as we did!
PatDQuote Reply
Ro,
That wasn’t a post from Jim (@gameofthrones), though. That was a post from the @HBO account.
It’s used for a lot of different things, including official announcements.
It could have been asking the question from a place of knowledge. Obviously not, in this case.
paulgudeQuote Reply
Pastor_of_Muppets,
Maybe I’m just a Pollyanna , but I took that to mean moving events between seasons to be more consistent with the chronology. I don’t think they’d stray too far from the storyline.
obsidianQuote Reply
Pastor_of_Muppets,
I took their comments to mean more… they could retire off that episode when they get there. Meaning their legacy would be made as it would go down in television history. I don’t think they mean they’re happy as long as they get to finish season 3 because they can wrap things up and retire after that, so I doubt it means drastic change.
As far as things starting to differ, I think they’re referring only to the 1 book 1 season format. By season 3, they’ll have to adjust and move things forward and push things back and break into two seasons or one and a half, etc. Seasons 1 and 2 should be mostly 1 book, 1 season, almost perfectly aligned.
RoQuote Reply
paulgude,
Ya, I realized after that it was from the HBO twitter account, but I think I just took it to mean: “hey, there are going to be questions asked, and depending on what those questions are, there are bound to be some answers regarding season 2 (we don’t know what the questions will be, since some will come from the audience)”.
RoQuote Reply
Thanks for the coverage guys! It was fun reading what everyone was saying, but if I’m honest I was a little disappointed with the panel itself and the lack of new info. It seemed like a lot of the questions that were asked were pretty generic or were things that we’ve already had answered numerous times in previous interviews/features.
It would be really cool to do something live like this again though (for this site).
Steve Hugh WestenraQuote Reply
Ro,
In hindsight, it’s like when you have a controversial guest on a talk show. They show a few past appearances and say, “What’ll they say tonight?!?”
Still, since it was the @HBO account talking about an HBO show, I had (wrongfully) assumed that it meant they were speaking from a place of knowledge and had some reveal planned.
paulgudeQuote Reply
paulgude,
Makes sense. I was hoping for some casting news too, but after the casting announcements started coming earlier this week, I got the sense that today’s session would be truly just a panel, meant more to recap and relive the past season with the fans.
RoQuote Reply
Anywhere you can see or hear this? Doesn’t seem to be much actual reporting of comments in the blog above.
JoemanjiQuote Reply
Joemanji,
http://screenrant.com/comic-con-2011-game-of-thrones-panel-live-blog-mcrid-124532/
See this link for strictly quotes. And supposedly the ThinkGeek guy recorded it all so there should be a video at some point.
RoQuote Reply
Ro,
Right. The “big three” have been announced, and Brienne besides. Unless there was some sort of cameo In a smaller role I don’t know who it would have been. Who knows? Maybe there are a few roles they’re waiting to finalize that they thought might be signed?
Granted, it being just teasing marketing language is much more likely.
paulgudeQuote Reply
Damn! No Sean! (but I knew he probably wouldn’t show cause he’s up in Montreal filming that Snow White film).
Sean FanQuote Reply
Game of Thrones panel pt 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpL6F2hKgV8&feature=channel_video_title
Jessica C.Quote Reply
Someone already posted the first part of the panel!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpL6F2hKgV8
EDIT: Beaten to the punch
Rukie44Quote Reply
Awesome, thanks much :)
JamboQuote Reply
Jessica C.,
Ah cheers Jessica! I’ve been waiting up for this.
BroQuote Reply
Wow, I was late to the panel coverage and have been waiting for Entertainment Weekly to post the cast interview for hours now, and it was terrible. Makes me miss Michael Ausiello :(. He was always able to giddy up exhausted casts for fun little videos.
uberstellarQuote Reply
Thank you Jessica!
I did not understand everything that was said (the sound is not good and it is English) so I just want to say two silly little things:
Drogo… what a gentleman! Is the only one who gets up when EC approaches the panel.
But above all:
¡¡¡Thanks the gods for the beard and nose of NCW !!!
andreaQuote Reply
Watched three of the five panel scenes on youtube (waiting patiently for the others).
Moment in spoilers in case you want to be surprised:
Loved Dinklage pretending like he was going to step up to the plate when Momoa declined the chants to do the haka.
Also pleased that the reported “Lena criticized for giving Cersei too much humanity,” was Lena relating that to a questioner who asked her about what it was like playing such a complex character. The way it looked to me during the live Tweeting was that someone had slammed her at the question mic. Glad the fans were nicer than that.
paulgudeQuote Reply
Watching part four, I was happy to see that they did talk a bit more about Season 2 than I thought from the live feed. It’s just that a lot of the info was stuff that book readers already know, so maybe wasn’t relayed as much.
paulgudeQuote Reply
paulgude,
!! That really is good. When I read that I thought it was so mean and rude.
Steve Hugh WestenraQuote Reply
I know I’m late, but wanted to thank WiC, FaB, and HMR for being so wonderful to post this SDCC experience here for us!!!!!!
David The GreyQuote Reply
Maybe there are a few roles they’re waiting to finalize that they thought might be signed?
chinadmozQuote Reply
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