Game of Thrones News/Discussion/Speculation TAG Ep Spoilers

[Oka]

The producers have already stated that the show would be rated "beyond R".

[The Mighty 6 platoon]

The producers have already stated that the show would be rated "beyond R".

Yes we know. I posted a link to that article on the previous page.

I'd argue it's not really news. A faithful adaption of GRRM's novels on HBO, a channel already known for having shows with strong content is likely to push the envelope. Big expensive movies stay firmly pg13, I don't think you'll find a single movie with a $200 million+ budget that has an R rating. With HBO for Boardwalk Empire, a show which is estimated to have cost anywhere between $65 million to $100million for the season, and between $18million to $50million simply for the pilot, making it whatever the figures, one of the most expensive tv shows of all time, and the most expensive pilot episode ever, decided to have a scene in the pilot where man's face can best be described as explodes onto the camera after he's shot in the head. Happy days.
I'm sure it will be guts a plenty, plus

Spoiler:

those icky incest scenes.

Fun for the whole family.

[DigiFluid]

Spoiler:

those icky incest scenes.

Fun for the whole family.

Must spread reps

[The Mighty 6 platoon]

Must spread reps

Now if only we could get some of the "I'm disgusted by the increased sex and violence on SGU" crew to watch the pilot, just for the apoplexy that would follow.

[Andron]

There's a new behind-the-scenes video The Artisans: Maisie Williams, she plays Arya Stark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H126QxKzfnw

75 days!

[twaxer]

You've never watched a HBO show before, have you?

HBO probably have created the 3 most violent shows in existence, The Wire, Deadwood and Boardwalk Empire, which have content stronger than most movies. What marks these shows out from others (and there are others like Spartacus on Starz which has buckets of blood) is not so much the blood and gore, though there's plenty of that, but often the shear brutality and realism of the violence.

The Wire is probably the least gory of the 3, there is blood, plenty of people get shot, we see the bloody effects of that, but it's no stronger than many other shows and movies. People being realistically shot with lots of blood in shows and movies is hardly rare today. But what marks it out is two things. One the suddenness of the violence, often characters are ambushed and killed with no warning, but two the show shows the effects of violence, and even violence being committed, on everyone. No group is safe, including kids. The Wire was a show with the balls to have a scene in which a 14 year old is graphically gunned down by his apparent best friends.

Deadwood and Boardwalk Empire are extremely gory, but it's not over the top, limbs cut off with gallons upon gallons of blood spilling out, rather it's realistic which makes it disturbing. There's a fine line with gore, too much and it becomes comedic, get it right and it can be horrifying, these shows get it right. In Deadwood a character gets his eye torn out of its socket during a street fight and then gets his skull smashed open with a wooden plank. In Boardwalk Empire we have someone get the top of their head blown off by a shotgun, the front of someone's face basically exploding onto the camera caused by the exit wound of a bullet and a women whose face is slashed to ribbons by a knife. Among other things. HBO are masters of nasty violence, it won't be all the time, but when it happens it will be damn unpleasant.

thats sounds promising.. yaay for HBO... hope they dont leave anything for your imagination!!

[The Mighty 6 platoon]

There's a new behind-the-scenes video The Artisans: Maisie Williams, she plays Arya Stark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H126QxKzfnw

75 days!

Just 13 and she has such a grasp on her character. Anyway I've done some digging and have found various interviews on youtube with the executive producers and actors on the show.

[Andron]

Interesting interviews, thank you

Here's another interview with Maisie http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/news...l/article.html

Also got some casting news:
- Lord Bracken is played by Gerry O’Brien http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639569/
- Lord Galbert Glover is played by Mark Coney http://www.starnow.co.uk/markconey
- “Older Knight of the Vale” (probably Lord Nestor Royce) is played by Barrington Cullen http://www.compton.ie/models/actors/...ullen%20CV.pdf

Don't know any of the three actors.

Still 75 days

[The Mighty 6 platoon]

Interesting fact about Maisie Williams, she learned to fight left handed with a sword as her character does in the book. Now apparently the producers, while wanting to have a close adaption, but weren’t that pedantic and weren’t going to insist the actress use her left hand, thought they had lucked out when it came to finding a left handed actress.

But no she’s right handed, but decided herself that in order to stay true to the character that she had to fight left handed. It’s that sort of thing that makes me so excited for this, the everyone involved, the actors, producers, writers and many others all care about getting this right, about getting every detail just perfect, and every actor talks with such enthusiasm about the characters and the story, you can tell each of them has taken the time to read the books and get to know the world.

[DigiFluid]

I want to watch all of those videos but I'm deathly afraid of spoilers

[The Mighty 6 platoon]

I want to watch all of those videos but I'm deathly afraid of spoilers

Very minor, mostly about the setup of the world as it were as far as I remember. (Don't hold me to it though if you watch it and get horribly spoiled )

[Andron]

The production has switched the composer. No longer will Academy Award-winning Stephen Warbeck be scoring the series, they have brought onboard Ramin Djawadi as his replacement.
Go here to read more about the change http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/02/...hes-composers/

Sad news, Margaret John who played Old Nan has died. http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/02/margaret-john/

[The Mighty 6 platoon]

Some more artisan video's have appeared. Apologies if any have surfaced before, but I think they're new.

Also a couple of weeks ago Sky Atlantic started and they had a big preview show. There was a bit on Game of Thrones and that has now apperead on youtube. No I have no idea why there are russin subtitles.

[Andron]

Makinggameofthrones.com posted the Official Pronunciation Guide for 'Game of Thrones'

http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/p...f-thrones.html

[Andron]

Here's a new video with some new shots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjeQcTkub8w

62 days!