A Game of Thrones
It’s Thursday. Want some links?
- I personally don’t especially care about covers – I choose books based on reviews and previous work and I think most SFF covers are rubbish. But some people care a great deal. Here’s a post at A Dribble of Ink about the changes between editions of Mark Charan Newton’s Nights of Villjamur. The comments are pretty interesting if you like that sort of thing, with all sorts weighing in, including Newton’s editor.
- Filming of the Games of Thrones pilot has wrapped. Now we wait to see what the chances of a actual series are.
- Sex advice from D&D players. Actually serious advice, not a parody.
- The AV club’s best 15 video games of the noughties.
- Next time you’re at a loss for PC or NPC, try looking up this print of Characters for an Epic Tale. (via Boing Boing)
- The BBC discusses committing war crimes in video games. (via Rock, Paper, Shotgun)
- The Times covers ‘adult gamers’. Shock, horror!
- And, finally, Kotaku celebrates World of Warcraft’s 5th birthday by finding out from people why they’ve never played it. The intro where the writer discusses how it just doesn’t live up to tabletop gaming experiences is the most interesting one to me.
Seven more to the mix
Yesterday, US time, seven more parts of the HBO pilot for A Game of Thrones were cast. They all seem to be actors of relative unknowness this time round, though by all accounts very strong. An article over at The Hollywood Reporter runs through them all, but for ease of use I’ll list them here:
- Jaime Lannister – played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
- Daenerys – played by Tamzin Merchant
- Robb Stark – played by Richard Madden
- Ser Jorah Mormont – played by Iain Glen
- Theon Greyjoy – played by Alfie Allen
- Sansa Stark – played by Sophie Turner
- Arya Stark – played by Maisie Williams
Some of these actors are such unknowns that they barely have a web pressence at all. So for more info head over to George R. R. Martin’s Not a Blog to read up on them.
This is all very good news. The finished product is still a long way away, but it looks like it’ll be pretty grand once it gets here!
More HBO A Game of Thrones casting news
Straight from the horses mouth (as it were). George R R Martin has confirmed two really key roles for the HBO pilot have been filled.
Another huge piece has fallen into place for the HBO pilot of A GAME OF THRONES — we have signed Sean Bean to play the part of Lord Eddard Stark.
For King Robert I Baratheon, we’ve got Mark Addy, a veteran British actor of stage and screen that many of you may remember from his fine turn in A KNIGHT’S TALE.
This is wicked news. The casting alone for this work feels more like they are preparing for a movie, not a TV show. It also makes me extremely happy that they are bringing in some serious talent to give these characters the dramatic weight that they’d need to work as well on screen as they do in the books.
The rest of the news can be read over on Martin’s LiveJournal, Not A Blog.