Season 8 filming: Game of Thrones adds a wall to the enormous King’s Landing set

So far as we know, the cameras have not yet started rolling on the massive King’s Landing set the Game of Thrones production is building on a backlot at Titanic Studios in Belfast. However, passersby continue to snap photos of the construction, so we can stay abreast of what’s happening there.. That’s the nice thing (or the frustrating thing, if you’re HBO) about a set this big: you can’t really hide it, no matter how many signs you put up:

See what I mean?

The best new photo comes from the ever-reliable A Red Priestess, of Twitter fame:

I’d like to draw your attention to the wall in between the two towers. Just a few weeks ago, that space was an artfully ragged gap:

After that, the production installed a makeshift gate over it:

Now, the crew has installed a door and done up the gate so it looks like it’s made of actual stone. It almost looks congruent with the towers now:

Soon enough, the gate will match the towers exactly, and the crew should be ready to film! According to some sources, shooting is already happening, but we haven’t seen any as of yet.

As for why the production would build a blown-out hole in a wall and then install a gate over it, we think it’s pretty clear: they want to film the wall blowing up, revealing the gap in its place. What could blast a hole in solid stone? What indeed.

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