A new set photo has leaked from the filming currently going on in Ouarzazate, Morocco. The photo, snapped by @marymoconnell, shows ranks of Unsullied standing by a mounted figure surrounded by crew and equipment.
According to reports, the production will be filming in Ouarzazate until November 6th. They will then have a short hiatus and move onto filming in Iceland at the end of the month.
Winter Is Coming: Is this scene what I think it is? The presence of the Unsullied, plus what may be green screens, seems to suggest that it is.
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Brilliant Photo, I see a lot of unsullied too.
edit: First again!!
GrijnwaaldQuote Reply
Man Dany’s season 3 stuff is gonna be soooooooooo much better than season 2. Just look at that location! It’s perfect!
QuowalaQuote Reply
So which moment from the book may this be? Been so long since I read it, so would appreciate if someone could refresh my memory!
CarneQuote Reply
Carne,
“Dracarys.”
Dan MQuote Reply
Burning of the Astopori slavers?
The GreatsteveQuote Reply
Dracarys!
Man, that place looks incredible! Perfect for GOT.
ConorQuote Reply
Carne,
Dracarys.………OMG I’M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!
DraigQuote Reply
Grijnwaald,
No freaking way! Hattrick grrr you bastard!
Aegon the ConquerorQuote Reply
What a stunning location. I can’t wait for a trailer/behind-the-scenes video!!!
Pastor_of_MuppetsQuote Reply
Quowala,
Sadly it’s all downhill for her from here
Aegon the ConquerorQuote Reply
astapor is red, isn’t it? i thought of yunkai.
ViniciusQuote Reply
Oh, this looks like that moment, definitely! So badass if they pull it off well.
I know the dragons aren’t big enough to ride by this point, but hopefully they’re bigger than the smallish ones we got in the previous seasons.
ZackQuote Reply
Well if they’re going by the size they are in the book, they should be about the size of this eagle : Click HERE (From that perspective too)
ConorQuote Reply
Zack,
Little dragons are so friggen cute though!
Aegon the ConquerorQuote Reply
Forgot to mention: (Spoilers in Pic)
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/297/f/7/Dracarys_by_Majoh.jpg
Awesomeness!
ConorQuote Reply
Let the face melting begin!
Ser Duncan The TallQuote Reply
i know what this is…… DRACARYS!! AAARRGGHH!!!!
novichasoQuote Reply
Carne:
She raised the harpy’s fingers in the air…and then she flung the scourge aside.
“Freedom!” she sang out. “Dracarys! Dracarys!”
“Dracarys!” they shouted back, the sweetest word she’d ever heard. “Dracarys! Dracarys!” And all around them slavers ran and sobbed and begged and died, and the dusty air was filled with spears and fire.
aimlessgunQuote Reply
Since its outside the city gates I think its supposed to portray Yunkai. Dracarys probably happened at the sea-side location.
LambmanQuote Reply
I hope it’s Dracarys, but for obscure reasons I don’t think so. And those pannels don’t look like greenscreens but more for lightning reasons, just like those that Dany had in the desert.
SelmyQuote Reply
Its probably the dracarys scene. The thing is that they used the impact of dracarys earlier in the show when she kills pyat pree on season 2. It will be a good scene to watch though.
joaquinQuote Reply
I really hope we get a Belwas one-on-one but it looks like if it happens it will most likely be in the fighting pits. Next season?
DirehoundQuote Reply
Dracarys would happen within some kind of courtyard. Also, where are the slavers in that pic? I think it’s clearly the siege of Yunkai.
LambmanQuote Reply
It’s exactly what I pictured for the Belwas one on one at Yunkai? Who’s the guy he thrashes again?
TheWalkingDaveQuote Reply
Belwas fights Meereen champion, not Yunkai’s…
For me, this looks much more like the siege of Yunkai… I guess all of Astapor has been dealt at Essaouira, henceforth, “Dracarys” too !
ArkashQuote Reply
Finally! A scene in which those damn Moroccan palm trees actually belong!
I could NEVER buy King’s Landing as tropical. Dubrovnik was so much better a location.
On the other hand… Astapor? Mereen? Qarth? Absolutely.
ChrisQuote Reply
Hum, in contrast to what everyone else is saying, to me this looks more like the siege of Yunkai (ending with Mother Mother Mother!), since it appears to be outside city walls. The taking of the Unsullied occurs within a plaza in a city.
queenofthornsQuote Reply
She will get to say “A dragon is no slave” - even more awesome, IMO.
queenofthornsQuote Reply
queenofthorns,
Now that i think of it it could be yunkai. Ifthe producers follow the show we get to know daario before the battle with yunkai begins. So we know that daario has been casted, that led me to believe that the yellow city could be the one in the photograh.
joaquinQuote Reply
those boards are for lighting, not green screens. I don’t think this is *the* scene
Beyond the WallQuote Reply
The Sack of Astapor!!!!!!!!!
Ren SnowQuote Reply
The dragons don’t need Green screen, the vfx reel showed that they’re added onto the scene without them.
ConorQuote Reply
Conor,
The white screens may be for lighting or to CGI over any possible modern landmarks that would come into view and destroy the scene I’m guessing.
But no doubt about it Dany’s storyline is going to kickass this season for sure. Last season she was a pouty little mother of dragons. This season she is going to own!
ArthurQuote Reply
Refresh my memory. I thought the Dracarys scene was indoors in some king of palace.
TastesLikeTheSeaQuote Reply
TheWalkingDave,
Oznak Zo Pahl.
Never got the love Strong Belwas gets from the fan base.
sunspearQuote Reply
Breathtaking photo.
I’m not sure which, but it has to one of khaleesi’s siege attempts,
outside of one of the slave cities. The Unsullied appear too small in number,
but the area of detail is quite small. Are those brown and white pavilions
included for the scene, or GoT production suppliers ?
WildSeedQuote Reply
I hope they have it in their budget to sell the larger force with some wide crowd-replication shots.
LambmanQuote Reply
Lambman,
probably. I’m so excited now… only 152 more days…………. !
WildSeedQuote Reply
I think it’s Yunkai. Astapor was filmed in Essaouira.
DornishmanQuote Reply
Thanks for the replies, I remember now!
Adds up with the stunt performer tweeting about being set on fire.
CarneQuote Reply
Vinicius,
I’m sure they could redden the city in post-production.
Either way, I can’t wait for the dracarys scene. As well as the siege of Yunkai.
BrianQuote Reply
Brian,
I doubt they would spend the time in money on staying that true to the book.
sunspearQuote Reply
Arkash,
Apologies… It’s been a while since reading this book. Can’t wait to see either way!
TheWalkingDaveQuote Reply
sunspear,
I don’t think it would be terribly difficult to tint the scenes red in post-production. I’m not talking about recoloring each brick, just making everything more “red,” like the yellowed Mexico shots of Breaking Bad.
BrianQuote Reply
i wonder when Strong Belwas will be coming inn, i like him from the books. i love the bit in SOS where he fights the Mereen Champion outside the city gates. i hope they do that scene.
Greg LaneQuote Reply
To all the people confused with the “DRACARYS!” scene, it was in a plaza (Plaza of Punishment I think), surrounded by all the slaves; That element was the one that made that scene so fucking awesome: the slaves witnessed history.
Whatever is happening in that shooting I’m kind of sure it’s not THAT scene. Maybe is the Unsullied leaving Astapor, maybe is the end of the siege of Yunkai (or “MOTHER!” scene), who knows, but those are not a greenscreens,but deflectors, they are used to give a smooth lightning. Also, if they were making a CGI enhanced scene, there would be markers in the set to aid the tracking work in post-production.
Bannerless BroQuote Reply
I how red the bricks are in this photo. It seems to me that they got the setting just perfect with this location. I had a few setting complaints in the past, but I have no objections.
Blood and bricks built Astapor Blood and bricks it’s people
AmsterpaulQuote Reply
Amsterpaul,
Walls can be recolored in post-production. It could be both, Astapor or Yunkai.
Bannerless BroQuote Reply
Aegon the Conqueror,
Not really.. she becomes queen of Mereen, marries the greatest Ghiscari noble who ever lived, and mounts and rides Drogon.. TWICE.. and she most probably will get an entire khalassaar to follow her in TWOW..
WinturdQuote Reply
Dornishman,
Remember scenes are usually filmed in multiple settings, not just one locale. Essaouira was used for on wall shots and some street scenes (closed in shots). Ouarzazate probably is utilized for plaza’s, courtyards and perhaps some street scenes too (wide open vistas).
tysnowQuote Reply
Wasn’t there a scene in the movie Hannah filmed in Ouarzazate?
MichaelQuote Reply
Winturd,
I know what happens. It’s how it happens that’s so friggen boring. I really like and enjoy ADWD, but Dany’s story makes me want to scratch my eyes out. From a storyteller’s perspective her character development makes sense, but Dany has always been a whiny little idiot. QUite frankly I’d have Caligula’s horse ruling a city rather than her. I hope she dies in TWOW.
Aegon the ConquerorQuote Reply
Those aren’t green screens FFS they’re for lighting *rollseyes*
MichaelQuote Reply
Aegon the Conqueror,
I know what your sayin` Aeg. , but wishing Dany dead….! ?? A little harse IMO. And her trying to follow in The Conqueror`s footsteps and all…:)
Maybe Vic. will use his massive horn to get Dany`s babies to rip her apart…. Yeah, You would like that. Aegon the Conqueror ?? Maegor the Cruel more like…;)
Two FeathersQuote Reply
Conor,
you dont need green screen to add stuff in the same scene except you want to hide something. you need green screen to cut the object out frm green background and paste it on the scene with 3d references. this might be astrapor! but it would be so much cool if its dracarys!
the waifQuote Reply
Rickard Nordstrand (A Swedish kickboxer) instagrammed this picture of himself as an Unsullied today:
http://instagram.com/p/RYWdD4sSKK/
MyBFFTheHoundQuote Reply
MyBFFTheHound, nice. Thanks for the link! There are more pictures where that came from, it seems…
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Two Feathers,
She’s not worthy of the name, if she was she’d have left Mereen a long, long time ago! She also would not have taken the crap from the Harpy’s Sons. She has more dragon than her brother, but not nearly enough.
Aegon the ConquerorQuote Reply
Aegon the Conqueror,
Aegon the Conqueror, i agree with the fact she should of left Mereen a long time ago. I wished she did.
Greg LaneQuote Reply
Slightly off topic, but does anybody think that the awesomeness of Dracarys was totally ruined by Dany using it to burn Pyat Pree at the end of S2?
As soon as Dany finds herself in any similar position, the audience will see the solution a mile away, and will make it feel cheap, instead of amazing.
Ax0rQuote Reply
Ax0r,
No because they still have the line “a dragon is no slave” . It will be a big moment because i have no doubt the writers will make her parting with Drogon and emotional moment thinking she is to sacrifice him for her cause. If they play it right it will create a building tension as the audience realizes what is going to happen. As long as its an awesome set piece the audience won’t care at all. There will be more emotion, more raised stakes and plot momentum to this Dracarys scene.
Joshua TaylorQuote Reply
I remember the sacking of Astapor just expoding off the page! It’s one of my favorite parts of Dany’s journey. No doubt this picture shows some part of that journey. Whether or not it’s Astapor, I can’t tell. Yeah….S3 is shaping up! Dracarys!
Scott GlennonQuote Reply
Now this is what I call potential.
LexyvilQuote Reply