Game of Thrones

[Lucas]

july 12!!!!! im so freaking excited, wrapping up a feast for crows as a refresher....are you stoked as me bro?

[Featherstone]

I've been enjoying the series, will have to grab the books next time I make it to the book store.

[Lucas]

i have not seen them yet, but i really want to, i have to wait until they are out on dvd or in netflix...

[sanjuro_ronin]

So far so good

[taai gihk yahn]

great series; best thing I've seen from the genre since LOTR movies; first series I've followed regularly since, idk, Seinfeld, lol...

also got hooked into The Borgias, since it's on right after, also pretty good, although takes some "poetic license" with the actual history;

Boardwalk Empire is also a great series, watched a few episodes of that;

only other two things worth watching are Royal Pains and White Collar...

[GeneChing]

I'm not in this week's episode, but I hope you'll support it anyway.

elreynetwork You are at the Red Wedding, which weapon do you use to defend yourself?

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In this episode of Man At Arms: Art of War, Danny and the smiths forge two iconic weapons of modern Hollywood fantasy - the Oathkeeper and the Red Viper Spear. The team then puts the blades through and array of tests.

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[GeneChing]

Not quite what I expected from GoT's Emilia but looks like Crazy Rich Asian's Henry & Michelle are doing parallel roles. It's easy to stereotype the Asians. And Emilia probably wanted to get away from bare boob scenes.

[GeneChing]

First the bad news...

‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel Pilot Starring Naomi Watts Not Going Forward At HBO
By Dominic Patten, Nellie Andreeva
October 29, 2019 11:56am


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EXCLUSIVE: HBO has more Game of Thrones in the pipeline, but the prequel written by Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts is no longer happening.

Showrunner Goldman has been emailing the cast and crew of the project to tell them that the pilot is dead, we hear. The development has not been confirmed by HBO.

The prequel, created by the Kingsman scribe and George R. R. Martin, takes place thousands of years before the wars, romances and dragons of the Emilia Clarke- and Kit Harington-led GoT, which wrapped up its blockbuster eight-season run in May. Weaving in issues of race, power, intrigue and White Walkers, the Goldman-run prequel was given the pilot green light back in June 2018.

It was picked among several GoT prequel scripts that had been commissioned by HBO. While the pilot, carrying heavy corporate expectations, was in editing, HBO in September gave an unofficial pilot green light to a second prequel project from Martin and Ryan Condal, which is set 300 years before the events in Game of Thrones and tracks the beginning of the end for House Targaryen.

Word of the Watts-led pilot, penned by Goldman and directed by S.J. Clarkson, not going forward comes after a lengthy post-production, which included re-editing of the initial cut after it was not well received, and rumors about issues during filming in Northern Ireland.

That is not altogether unheard of for a production of such scope — hardcore fans of the Emmy-winning mothership series will recollect that the $10 million pilot for the show created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss also had a rocky road. The duo and others have admitted that the original GoT pilot was a mess that required it to be re-shot almost entirely at great expense before HBO execs would give the go-ahead to take the project to series.

News of the prequel’s demise comes as HBO owner WarnerMedia hopes to blow some dragon fire of its own today with an investors day presentation of its HBO Max streaming service on the Warner Bros lot in Burbank.

Set to launch next spring, the AT&T-owned media company’s latest foray into the streaming wars has its eyes set on a prize almost as large as the conquest of the Seven Kingdoms. With AppleTV+ premiering on November 1 and Disney+ on November to crowd the space already occupied by Netflix, Amazon and the Disney controlled Hulu, plus NBCUniversal’s Peacock on the horizon for 2020 too, AT&T CEO Randell Stephenson declared yesterday that he sees big numbers for HBO Max in such a tight landscape.

The telecom conglomerate boss said in a forecast issued Monday that HBO Max aims to have 50 million U.S. subscribers in its first five years. A desire for more Game of Thrones likely is partially fueling that ambition.

Now the good news...

HBO gives Game of Thrones Targaryen prequel a full series order
By James Hibberd October 29, 2019 at 07:57 PM EDT

As one Game of Thrones prequel dies, another rises from the ashes.

HBO announced Tuesday that its GoT prequel project about the Targaryen civil war has officially received a full series order for 10 episodes.

The spot-on title: House of the Dragon.

Also announced: Emmy-winning GoT director Miguel Sapochnik will serve as co-showrunner and direct the pilot. Sapochnik directed acclaimed episodes such as “Battle of the *******s,” “Hardhome” and “The Long Night.”

The announcement comes just hours after news broke that the network’s first GoT prequel project from showrunner Jane Goldman starring Naomi Watts was not moving forward.

The new prequel was co-created by author George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal (Colony) — who will also be a showrunner on the series.

A poster was also released with the tagline “Fire Will Reign”:


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“The Game of Thrones universe is so rich with stories,” says Casey Bloys, president, HBO programming. “We look forward to exploring the origins of House Targaryen and the earlier days of Westeros along with Miguel, Ryan and George.”

House of the Dragon is based on Martin’s 2019 book Fire & Blood, a history of House Targaryen that spans roughly 150 years. GoT writer-producer Bryan Cogman originally developed the project at the network. Like the other prequel, the story takes place long before the events in GoT, but not nearly as far back as the Goldman project (a couple hundred years before Ned Stark and Daenerys Targaryen, give or take). So Westeros will look different than it is in Game of Thrones, but not too dramatically different based on what Martin has written about the era.

House of the Dragon also takes place during a time in Westeros that has plenty of dramatic established history penned by Martin to serve as a backbone for a story, whereas the pilot only had some vague references to build on.

The events in the new series will eventually lead up to The Dance of the Dragons, a massive civil war in the Seven Kingdoms held between two rival branches of House Targaryen.

The prequel order is the latest in a dramatic succession of Game of Thrones-related news over the last 24 hours. On Monday, Lucasfilm announced GoT showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss (who opted not to be involved in the prequels) are stepping away from their planned Star Wars trilogy. Then the Goldman project — which shot a full pilot in Northern Ireland this summer — was scrapped. Now HBO’s other prequel has lept from development into an official series order.

The news was announced at WarnerMedia’s presentation to investors on Tuesday focused on the launch of its 2020 streaming service HBO Max.


By James Hibberd
@JamesHibberd

Let's start that GoT spin-off thread now: House of the Dragon

Dracarys!

[Zenshiite]

july 12!!!!! im so freaking excited, wrapping up a feast for crows as a refresher....are you stoked as me bro?

I'm about halfway through A Clash of Kings.... so it's going to be a minute before I can read A Dance With Dragons... but yeah, I'm stoked. These books are just so **** good.

[Lucas]

Oh dude you are in for some more fun twists and turns

i'm glad you guys are saying that this is good, i would be kinda ****ed if it sucked. i'm assuming g.r.r.m. is making sure no one messes with is baby tho.

[doug maverick]

Oh dude you are in for some more fun twists and turns

i'm glad you guys are saying that this is good, i would be kinda ****ed if it sucked. i'm assuming g.r.r.m. is making sure no one messes with is baby tho.

when it comes to books once the rights are bought, it really doesnt matter much what the writer says or does. i remember when they made color purple the original writer was furious that speilberg was directing till she saw the film, same thing goes for interview with the vampire, ask alan moore about that...he hates almost every movie made from his comics, if not all of them. this series was created by people who truly loved the material as evident by the what is on the screen. not to mention its HBO, which has time and time again gone to bat to make amazing series. hopefully we get to see all the books, but with something like this...the cost are huge and they are only going to get bigger as the series goes on. so im hoping we get the first four books at least. this is the only way to tell this story a movie just wont do.


i think i said this before but ill say it again...peter dinklage(the imp) steals every scene he is in. and im glad the kid actors are so good, because this is their story so having strong actors in those roles is a good move for the years to come.

[Lucas]

oh that makes sense...im wondering how those negotiations went. and ya the tyrion is a pretty strong character, and a freaking genius.

minor spoiler:

jaime ends up being one of my fav characters by the end of a feast for crows...but whats funny is i hated his character at first. thats some good writing. most of all i want to know what arya turns into, she has potential to be so bad ass, and if she reunites with her wolf...and of course john snow is gangster.

[Lucas]

also now that you mention it that would be nice to get the first 4 books in, then finish it with a movie for the final book.

[taai gihk yahn]

cool tidbit about the series:

this guy



is this guy