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Thrones producer: “We’ll probably get through seven seasons”

Filed Under: Press, Speculation

Frank DoelgerGame of Thrones producer Frank Doelger spoke with RadioTimes at the BAFTAs, where Thrones took home the Audience Award, and had an interesting quote about how long he expects the show to last.

Speaking backstage at the Baftas – where Game of Thrones was also nominated in the International category – Doelger said: “[The number of series] is being discussed as we speak. The third season was the first half of book three, season four will be the second part of book three. George RR Martin has written books four and five; six and seven are pending.

“I would hope that, if we all survive, and if the audience stays with us we’ll probably get through to seven seasons.”

Winter Is Coming: Seven seasons? That seems at least one season shorter than I expected. And really, unless they plan on making some pretty major cuts from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, I think that nine seasons would be necessary. Either Doelger is being very conservative here (under-promise and over-deliver) or there are going to be some major changes coming after season 4.

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Benioff & Weiss interviewed on KCRW’s UpClose

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Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss & David Benioff

David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, Game of Thrones writers and executive producers, appeared on KCRW’s UpClose a couple weeks ago. David & Dan talk about their background, the genesis of the show, the adaptation process and more in an entertaining and enlightening hour. Full audio is below.

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” has taken viewers by storm ever since it premiered on HBO in 2011. Executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss sit down with Elvis Mitchell in front of a live audience, just before leaving for Belfast to start production for season four. This conversation was recorded live as part of KCRW’s UpClose series

UPDATE: One bit of news to come out of this interview: Season 4 is set to begin filming on July 8th.

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MGoT: Behind the scenes of the bear pit and more

Filed Under: Filming, Media, Production

Making Game of Thrones has had a couple of interesting updates over the past week, detailing some of the behind the scenes work that has gone into these most recent episodes. First up, this post which includes a video of the making of the bear fight scene.

The post also includes some cool storyboard art of the scene and a link to a new interview with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau about the latest episode.

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The Tweets were Fair (and Madden was Bare)

Filed Under: Editorial, Humor, Recap

brizzly-bear-twitter150pxI could really do this all week long. I have a million titles like this one!

(And none of them are any good.)

Hiyo, Twerps! Twitter time again! FaBio is back, comin’ at you straight from the bowels of Washington D.C., where the women are men and the men are scared.

(I think that was a line from HBO’s Veep, also known as “The Khaleesi from D.C.”)

And so it came to pass anon that I, the angelic @Axechucker, with assistance from that rascal @The_Rabbit01 and “Don’t Call Me Ser” @Sir_Davidio, gathered Tweets from here and there, near and far. We selected funny ones, depressed ones, drunken ones, hysterical ones, and altogether ridiculous ones. I would like to note, for perhaps the fifteenth time, that just because I re-tweet something doesn’t necessarily mean I agree with it. This is Twitter—not Tumblr.

Tonight’s little slices of awesome pie were taken from Tweets bearing the hashtags #GameOfThrones and/or #TheBearAndTheMaidenFair. This week we had strong performances from @duckandcover, and wily sisters Hannah and Becca.

And Q was Q. He’s Q!

Let’s git it awn!
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Leaked audition video means season 4 casting underway

Filed Under: Casting, Rumors

An audition video has popped up on Vimeo that looks to be for season 4 of Game of Thrones. The audition is from Dutch actor Yorick van Wageningen and appears to be for the role of the wildling Styr, the Magnar of Thenn. It depicts a confrontation between Styr and Tormund Giantsbane. We’ve got the video after the break. Check it out now before it gets taken down! Too late!

BEWARE AS THE VIDEO AND OUR SPECULATION CONTAIN SPOILERS OF THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN LATER THIS SEASON!

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Inside the Episode: “The Bear and the Maiden Fair”

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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss provide their usual breakdown of the latest episode in Inside the Episode for “The Bear and the Maiden Fair”.

Winter Is Coming: No post-episode interviews this time so I will just provide this probably pointless observation: it seems the stresses of producing this show are causing Benioff to go prematurely grey.

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