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More on the Game of Thrones
It looks like HBO has started the publicity machine for the new Game of Thrones TV series. Check out the new HBO page for more info.
HBO greenlights A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin reacts here, with links. I’m pretty excited about this – the series is human-centric enough to not require much in the way of effects and the story is complex enough that it needs TV, not movie, timelines. Who knows how well it will do but I can’t wait.
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.
More news about A Song of Ice and Fire
It seems that George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series is all sorts of hotness at the moment. First the new, shiny RPG from Green Ronin finally came out, and then (as Nick reported in this post) the HBO series based on the first book in the series, Game of Thrones, is starting to get traction.
Talking of which the Hollywood Reporter has this small article giving the first names (other than Martin’s) to be attached to the project. It seems that the star and director of The Station Agent are joining together again, but for something quite different. I think that Peter Dinklage as Tyrion is a very good start at casting. Looking forward to hearing more news.
Now over to the computer game world and it seems that the rights have been obtained by a company I’ve never heard of, Cyanide. At the moment I’m not going to get in anyway excited as in all honesty I think these books would be extremely difficult to turn into a computer game. Possibly you could do a Total War type thing and have the houses facing off across the battle field, but I’m not sure. The thing about the books I enjoy so much is that they are made up of complex webs of characters which would be extremely difficult to emulate. However the setting that Martin has created is very rich and it will be interesting to see how it pans out.