Season 8 filming: A Song of Towers Covered in Skins and Furs
By Dan Selcke
CAUTION: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR GAME OF THRONES SEASON 8
Over the last couple of days, we’ve brought you images and videos from the King’s Landing set in Belfast, some of which have been pretty explosive; buildings in flames, reports of hundreds of extras filming action scenes, green screens going up on the side of flame-ravaged towers…it’s an interesting time to live in Westeros’ biggest city, provided you survive.
Today’s update, which again comes courtesy of the highly observant A Red Priestess, isn’t quite as dramatic, but still interesting: what is this makeshift wooden wall covered in skins and furs doing near the Paint Hall?
I mean, what even is this thing? It doesn’t look like something just lying around the Titanic Quarter…perhaps it’s a makeshift wall someone in King’s Landing builds to keep out the cold? Winter, as we know, has come to the city, and should the White Walkers also arrive in the city, things will go from chilly to absolutely freezing. Or it could be a siege tower covered in skins so it can’t be set on fire?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I get a Dothraki vibe from this structure; I think it’s the brown tones and animal hides. We’ve seen Dothraki riders near the King’s Landing set before, and something that looked like a Dothraki hut showed up there shortly before shooting began. Perhaps what remains of the Dothraki slink down to King’s Landing after whatever happens up north.
Beyond that, A Red Priestess notes that the dragon rig previously spotted on set is nowhere to be seen, and that at least one tourist was trying to climb the fence to get a better look. Watch your head, curious stranger.
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