HBO releases In Production: Iceland video

waterfall at 2:40, incredible

Knurk,

Thanks, but HBO and Game of Thrones deserve the worship.
I am just their slave…. erm servant.

Benioff can grow an epic beard

darquemode,
Thank you again!
oh the Halfhand…I don´t know why I thought Simon Armstrong voice could tear down walls. I love him anyway, is the perfect Halfhand.

Cosmo said he´s in LA?

Everything about Iceland is epic. So happy about this.

HALFHAND! HALFHAND! HALFHAND! HALFHAND!

And awww, Grenn. He is adorable. ^_^

And our first shot of Dolorus Edd! In a spotty blanky no less!

Knurk,

Same. It’s still freezing on me. But it’s prob my laptop, it always decides to act stupidly at the most inappropriate times!
Still I love seeing anything about the Night’s Watch. Iceland looks absolutely breathtaking. That shot of the waterfall is one of the most spectatular things I’ve ever seen (on a video).

I love that shot with the bows , it’s one that’s bound to stay with you.

Everything looks gorgeous..and let’s hear it for Halfhand’s costume .

It certainly looks epic…
I’ve gotta say, though, that in the book I always pictured the far north looking more like Montana (where I live) with forests covering the foothills, steep mountain canyons, and only limited areas of open snowfields at high elevations. If Mormont and the gang are in that iceland terrain, does that mean there are no trees around the Fist? Not what I pictured, but I remain very much open to convincement. My mental North may never be the same….

Amazing! Jon looks awesome. I really hope we get Sansa’s song to the Hound in Season 2. I found an excellent rendition from a fan on youtube :].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6AQreUUyVE&feature=related

Did you guys see that waterfall?!?

Like many, I wanted trees because its described with trees in the book.

BUT that waterfall is incredible!!

Some of these shots are awesome

Wow that was beautiful! I have to go to Iceland one day!
I’m still missing the trees and canyons and stuff because that’s how I pictured it in my head but this is gonna be awesome nonetheless. By now I’m open-minded enough to accept those kind of changes and enjoy them :)
Grenn looks totally badass, just like Qhorin does. Kit got punched in the face? Can’t remember that in the books. Hopefully we’ll get some Qhorin – Jon sparring to show off Qhorin’s domination of badassery.
I just can’t wait anymore, damn it!

I’m so glad the actors who play Grenn and Pyp are back ha, they were great in the first season. The Wall scenes have some pretty cool supporting actors that are easy to root for

In other news: Steam has the RTS for $10 today, 75% off.

As much as I loved Season 1, the fact that D & D + the HBO crew have bothered to take the time and expense to capture all this real landscape magic on film for Jon’s story really gives me the idea that Season 2 is going to exceed any expectation I may have had, and that “GOT” in general is going to pull off what I felt two years ago was impossible: a properly filmed adaptation of my beloved books. Simply fantastic!

And this is for a TELEVISION show. Extraordinary.

Jose,

Hoping that they somehow include that into the show!

North of the Wall looks amazing. I kinda imagined the scenery to have more forest in it but there aren’t many of those on a glacier (which looks amazing).
Halfhand is yet another of a great casting choices, he looks exactly like I pictured him in my head. I can’t wait for 1st April!

Great video.
As many above allready said the North gonna be epic!

Some people have noted the lack of trees. Well, they’re not going to show ALL the footage in these clips. Remember the Cold Winds teaser, and that sweeping overhead shot north of the Wall? Well, I saw a few trees.

Wow. Iceland is so beautiful. So perfect for beyond the wall.
Ah, Kit. Just when I thought I couldn’t fall more in love with you…

LOL at James Cosmo joking that this is all greenscreen and he’s really in Santa Monica^^

Iceland looks, as they say, magical and really appears to be the perfect location for this part of the story. I feel kind of bad for the cast and crew freezing their tails off, but at least they won’t have to fake chattering teeth, shivers, and their puffs of breath. I really can’t wait!

Thanks, HBO, for releasing this video. I’m liking the pacing—one release per week. I wonder what they have in store for us next! Also, I’m glad they’re really keeping spoilers to a minimum. I can’t wait to see the final product.

Great Video

I’m guessing that cliff seen at about 0:45 is the actual Fist of the First Men.

In other news Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has been cast in upcoming Tom Cruise film Oblivion

Sensible Simon,

True. I imagine the far north to be forested all along the Milkwater valley, but up in the Frostfangs and in the western coastal plain to be as barren as these shots. Perhaps the shots of the Fist, Craster’s Keep, and Mance’s camp will have more forest involved. Then again, some of the shots in this video could very well be fromthe Fist, like the three rangers digging?

Not all of the scenes beyond the wall were filmed in Iceland, and the shots of Crasters Keep had trees in it. I think it’s a safe bet that they will be trekking through the haunted forest at the beginning of the season and eventually emerge on the other side of it when they hit the Fist.

Even though it’s canon, I’m seriously bummed by the lack of Pyp. :(

Still, Sam! Grenn! The Old Bear! Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

Brief glimpse of wildlings at 2:53.

Nice long video. Its good to see James Cosmo off camera, always thought he was one of the best casting decisions made in the show. Love that waterfall.

Seeing how damn cold it is there, its amazing to think that people actually surf in Iceland!

This is quite an eyeopener. I recall speculating a few months back that they might limit the Iceland cast to Qhorin’s party and the wildlings. I think I based this speculation largely on John Bradley West tweeting a lot from London whilst the Iceland shooting was going on – maybe that was just a smokescreen – lol! I can imagine there will be some CGI trees to reduce the barrenness – I think the cold winds trailer showed trees in this landscape which were presumably CGI.

OT: Is the waterfull the same one as was in the Prometheus trailer?

Really, really nice vid! And Jon seems to have grown up a bit, his baby-face is less…well baby-ish :)
But I still think that they were saying all sorts of “nice” things about Cersei, Tyrion, Daenerys, Joff etc. I mean while they were filming up north the other bunch was swimming in the Adriatic and drinking “Concubino” cocktails under palm trees and acacias XD

userj:
Even though it’s canon, I’m seriously bummed by the lack of Pyp. :(

Still, Sam!Grenn!The Old Bear!Yayyyyyyyyyyy!

Yeah they better bring Josef back for S3! (or 4, as the case may be.)

Absolutely stunning location. Majestic badassery!

Rán,

I think the one in prometheus is dettifoss! all round fantastic scenery – very excited here – my favourite country visited together with my favourite books!!

Stunning. Can’t wait to see it…

Sam’s face is so red. It’s probably the only exercise he’s ever done in his life.

The stuff in the Wall and beyond doesn’t get exciting till Book 3 (then become boring again in ADWD), so HBO better add some new stuff to stop the viewers from falling asleep during those scenes in season 2.

I love how some people ignore the majority consensus and feel that their opinion is the only one worth a damn. I am referring to CoK criticism of course. It has more lovers than detractors therefore D & D are going to cater (within the constraints of adaptation of course) to that majority. Not everyone loves The Godfather yet it is still a classic despite the current hatred (re: IMDB). To those who didn’t like Book II (I thought ADWD was the pariah here?).. Deal with it.

Kinda off topic:

I pray to God that Tormund is cast. Definitly my favorite wildling

XenkanMonk:
The environment is quite pretty, but whoever designed the costumes clearly isn’t from a cold climate. No one is wearing hats! Ah well, I’m curious what the temperature is around there, a cursory search says only -5 to -10, so they are probably being British and not really chilly. At least the actors will look genuinely freezing. I dislike most “winter” in films because it looks nothing at all like it should.

That’s easy to explain. TV is a visual medium and there’s so many different characters and so few minutes that you need to make the Viewers get who is who. And that’s much much easier if you can see their faces and hairdoes. So, everyone not wearing hats has more to do with it being on TV than them not thinking ahead. Some other tv shows push that to an extreme and have the actors not wearing helmets during battle, but I do hope they don’t go there and that’s why they have these special helmets (see the Hound).

Did they shoot with horses or is the fist going to be horseless? And that cliff is probably the one Jon is climbing, right? And where did we see Dolorous Edd?

Oooooohhh! This video has me all giddy! Jon Snow is definitely my favorite character throughout the whole Song, and the Night’s Watch is my favorite faction, so I am incredibly excited to see their stories gain some steam! All of the scenery is gorgeous and oh my gosh the Half-Hand! He looks awesome! April 1st can’t come soon enough!