HBO aired a promo in front of the Big Little Lies finale on Sunday night, and several Game of Thrones stars popped by and say hello…well, “ahh.”
The likes of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Emila Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark) and Kit Harington (Jon Snow) are all prominently featured alongside other folks from the network. Check it out below:
Here's the new #hbo promo featuring #GameofThrones actors in their new duds in front of #BigLittleLies!! pic.twitter.com/laO5tVcNmY
— Show Snob (@ShowSnobFS) April 3, 2017
The gimmick here is that everyone’s trying to approximate the noise that plays before every HBO show. You know the one:
The interesting thing here is that the Game of Thrones actors are wearing the outfits they’ll presumably be sporting in season 7. Let’s see if there’s anything noteworthy in there.
Jaime and his golden hand lead the way. No big change there.
When you can't believe you've got three months left until #gameofthronesseason7 pic.twitter.com/YsJ8ogMnDD
— Show Snob (@ShowSnobFS) April 3, 2017
Dany’s up next, sporting a red cape with a silver chain, the same thing she’s wearing in the recently released season 7 promo trailer. Naturally, when she raises her finger to speak, dragons roar.
When you're about to invade the seven kingdoms and you remember you have three dragons #gameofthronesseason7 pic.twitter.com/YKxYvWQieA
— Show Snob (@ShowSnobFS) April 3, 2017
Then there’s Tormund. He’s wearing standard-issue wildling rags, but there’s a nasty-looking cut on his forehead. So far as we can tell, he didn’t have that at the end of the Battle of the Bastards. Has he been getting into scraps?
Season 7 Tormund shows off his eyebrow wiggle in an HBO promo. pic.twitter.com/GCXX3XxGLz
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) April 4, 2017
Next we have Sansa, sporting a new clasp on her cloak.
Sansa, now with a ring thing on her costume pic.twitter.com/liblfuspzB
— Crown_For_A_King (@Crown_ForAKing) April 4, 2017
Bran and Jon look to wearing approximately the same things they were wearing in the season 6 finale — all heavy cloaks and animal furs. Bran’s warging out, of course.
Bran tripping pic.twitter.com/ezbaf43tNs
— Crown_For_A_King (@Crown_ForAKing) April 4, 2017
Season 7 Jon shushes the audience in an HBO promo. pic.twitter.com/ZpKxrGTPxw
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) April 4, 2017
And finally, we have an elaborate zoom-out starting with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and ending with the HBO log, featuring a whole bunch of special guests along the way.
Need help! Who do you all see in this GIF? pic.twitter.com/C23LnKvB6i
— Show Snob (@ShowSnobFS) April 3, 2017
We saw several Game of Thrones cast members dressed in their GoT best in that collage, including:
- Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy)
- Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister)
- Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei)
- Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister)
See anybody we didn’t? Let us know.
As this is coming so close on the heels of the season 7 promo trailer, we can’t help but wonder if there’s more press to follow. The HBO Game of Thrones hype machine may be clanging to life. We’ll see what it produces between now and when season 7 premieres on July 16.