In March this year HBO are to make the decision on whether to green light the Game of Thrones series. The pilot episode is in post production at the moment. The series is based on George RR Martins 'A song of Ice and Fire' Novels, and would run to 12 episodes each for the 7 proposed books in the series.
The date has come from a numerous sources including David Weiss the producer and George RR Martin the writer of the original series of books and an executive producer on the TV show. This wait is longer than many fans has hoped for as HBO has picked up a number of pilots up very quickly in recent history.
However the cast assembled for the production is more than impressive with the five biggest names to date being Sean Bean, Lena Headey, Mark Addy , Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage.
Added to these are a number of established English stage and character actors, and a number of new, exciting and upcoming English actors and newcomers. Together they make probably the best ensemble fantasy acting cast since Peter Jackson brought together the cast for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
The series has been created up by David Weiss and David Benioff (Troy, Kite Runner and Wolverine )with continued input from George RR Martin, who as well as being the author of the original novels has a history in writing for TV and film going back to the 80's.
Filming for the pilot episode took place on location at Doune Castle in Scotland (used much in Monty Pythons Quest for the Holy Grail.), the Morocco based Jerusalem set of Kingdom of Heaven, and in Belfast at the Paint Hall and on location. It took place 4 weeks all told and was completed
Through December and one imagines into the new year the pilot is in post production with Modern VideoFilm who are handling the post-production requirements. The effects and CGI necessary for the pilot are known to include a CGI wheelhouse (for Cersei's travelling party), digital extensions on the real castle locations, the scenes and panoramas viewed from set windows and possible crowd extension work. - 30302
The date has come from a numerous sources including David Weiss the producer and George RR Martin the writer of the original series of books and an executive producer on the TV show. This wait is longer than many fans has hoped for as HBO has picked up a number of pilots up very quickly in recent history.
However the cast assembled for the production is more than impressive with the five biggest names to date being Sean Bean, Lena Headey, Mark Addy , Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage.
Added to these are a number of established English stage and character actors, and a number of new, exciting and upcoming English actors and newcomers. Together they make probably the best ensemble fantasy acting cast since Peter Jackson brought together the cast for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
The series has been created up by David Weiss and David Benioff (Troy, Kite Runner and Wolverine )with continued input from George RR Martin, who as well as being the author of the original novels has a history in writing for TV and film going back to the 80's.
Filming for the pilot episode took place on location at Doune Castle in Scotland (used much in Monty Pythons Quest for the Holy Grail.), the Morocco based Jerusalem set of Kingdom of Heaven, and in Belfast at the Paint Hall and on location. It took place 4 weeks all told and was completed
Through December and one imagines into the new year the pilot is in post production with Modern VideoFilm who are handling the post-production requirements. The effects and CGI necessary for the pilot are known to include a CGI wheelhouse (for Cersei's travelling party), digital extensions on the real castle locations, the scenes and panoramas viewed from set windows and possible crowd extension work. - 30302
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