HBO are to make their final decision on whether to press ahead with the Game of thrones series in March this year. The pilot episode which is in post production at the moment is the first episode of the proposed series based on George RR Martins 'A song of Ice and Fire Novels'.
This information has come from a number of sources including David Weiss the producer and George RR Martin the writer of the original series of books. This is a longer wait than many fans has hoped for as HBO has picked up a few pilots up very quickly in recent history.
HBO do seem to be committed to the project however, The cast assembled for this production is 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 project is being headed up by David Weiss and David Benioff (Troy, Kite Runner and Wolverine )with considerable input from George RR Martin, who as well as being the author of the books has a pedigree in script writing 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
Since this point the pilot has been in post production with Modern VideoFilm, who are handling post-production requirements. The amount of effects and CGI required for the pilot are known to include a CGI wheelhouse (for Cersei's travelling party), digital extensions to the real castle locations, scenes and panoramas outside of set windows and possible crowd extension work.
This information has come from a number of sources including David Weiss the producer and George RR Martin the writer of the original series of books. This is a longer wait than many fans has hoped for as HBO has picked up a few pilots up very quickly in recent history.
HBO do seem to be committed to the project however, The cast assembled for this production is 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 project is being headed up by David Weiss and David Benioff (Troy, Kite Runner and Wolverine )with considerable input from George RR Martin, who as well as being the author of the books has a pedigree in script writing 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
Since this point the pilot has been in post production with Modern VideoFilm, who are handling post-production requirements. The amount of effects and CGI required for the pilot are known to include a CGI wheelhouse (for Cersei's travelling party), digital extensions to the real castle locations, scenes and panoramas outside of set windows and possible crowd extension work.
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