The stakes get higher in season three of HBO's 'Game of Thrones
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Daenerys will try to buy an army of eunuch warriors in her effort to take back the Iron Throne; meanwhile, Joffrey looks to new would-be bride
it Harington as Jon Snow in “Game of Thrones”
Everything was real — except maybe the dragons.
HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” which starts its third season next Sunday at 9 p.m., isn’t the type of fantasy series that would film its glacial tundra scenes on a soundstage full of soap flakes. So that means a typical workday for Kit Harington, who playes warrior hero Jon Snow, was spent by a fjord in Iceland in subfreezing weather.
There isn’t any other place on Earth he’d rather have been.
“It constantly surprises me, this show, the scale of it,” the British actor told The News. “In Iceland, we had 100-plus background artists playing wildings and a massive whole camp that was constructed, and hundreds of thousands of dollars must go into these sets.
“It makes you stand back and realize how lucky you are that this has all been built to assist the audience's imagination.”
This season there will plenty more to boggle the viewers’ minds — a ratcheting up of stakes for a show that’s based on an epic series of novels, “A Song of Ice and Fire,” written by George R.R. Martin, a producer for the ’80s series “Beauty and the Beast.” Martin had set out to write a saga with the express purpose of making it too sprawling to be filmable.
He almost succeeded.
The series has averaged 10.3 million viewers and become the third-most-watched series in network history. It’s also a global hit, as the cast members are starting to learn for themselves.
“The guy on the checkout at my local supermarket says, “How, may I help you, my lord?” says Aidan Gillen, who plays the scheming Lord Petyr Baelish.
“I hadn't actually followed it” before being cast in the show, says series newcomer Dame Diana Rigg. “But I talked to taxi drivers, because when I get in a taxi they say, ‘What do you do?’ and I say what I'm doing and ... apparently it's very big with taxi drivers in London.”
“Game of Thrones” has the budget of a Hollywood blockbuster, locations in Morocco, Croatia and Southern California in addition to Iceland, and a soundstage at Northern Island’s mammoth Paint Hall studio, a converted shipyard where the Titanic was built.
“We’re not getting nervous, we’ve been nervous from the very first time we met with George seven years ago and he said, ‘You guys are insane, these books are not adaptable,’” recalls executive producer David Benioff. “And we were so young at the time, we had never actually done a TV series before, so we thought, ‘No, we can totally do this, we can handle this, and then it was like getting smacked in the face with a dead chicken for the last seven years.”
“An 800-pound dead chicken,” adds his showrunning partner D.B. Weiss, referring to the series’ ever-growing dragons.
As the season opens, those dragons are flourishing on a fattening diet of fish and ever-increasing helpings of special effects. Their master, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke), is attempting to buy an army of fearsome eunuch warriors in her effort to take back the Iron Throne even as the list of her enemies is growing.
HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” which starts its third season next Sunday at 9 p.m., isn’t the type of fantasy series that would film its glacial tundra scenes on a soundstage full of soap flakes. So that means a typical workday for Kit Harington, who playes warrior hero Jon Snow, was spent by a fjord in Iceland in subfreezing weather.
There isn’t any other place on Earth he’d rather have been.
“It constantly surprises me, this show, the scale of it,” the British actor told The News. “In Iceland, we had 100-plus background artists playing wildings and a massive whole camp that was constructed, and hundreds of thousands of dollars must go into these sets.
“It makes you stand back and realize how lucky you are that this has all been built to assist the audience's imagination.”
This season there will plenty more to boggle the viewers’ minds — a ratcheting up of stakes for a show that’s based on an epic series of novels, “A Song of Ice and Fire,” written by George R.R. Martin, a producer for the ’80s series “Beauty and the Beast.” Martin had set out to write a saga with the express purpose of making it too sprawling to be filmable.
He almost succeeded.
The series has averaged 10.3 million viewers and become the third-most-watched series in network history. It’s also a global hit, as the cast members are starting to learn for themselves.
“The guy on the checkout at my local supermarket says, “How, may I help you, my lord?” says Aidan Gillen, who plays the scheming Lord Petyr Baelish.
Emilia Clarke is Daenerys in "Game of Thones."
“Game of Thrones” has the budget of a Hollywood blockbuster, locations in Morocco, Croatia and Southern California in addition to Iceland, and a soundstage at Northern Island’s mammoth Paint Hall studio, a converted shipyard where the Titanic was built.
“We’re not getting nervous, we’ve been nervous from the very first time we met with George seven years ago and he said, ‘You guys are insane, these books are not adaptable,’” recalls executive producer David Benioff. “And we were so young at the time, we had never actually done a TV series before, so we thought, ‘No, we can totally do this, we can handle this, and then it was like getting smacked in the face with a dead chicken for the last seven years.”
“An 800-pound dead chicken,” adds his showrunning partner D.B. Weiss, referring to the series’ ever-growing dragons.
As the season opens, those dragons are flourishing on a fattening diet of fish and ever-increasing helpings of special effects. Their master, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke), is attempting to buy an army of fearsome eunuch warriors in her effort to take back the Iron Throne even as the list of her enemies is growing.
Back in Westeros, the current occupant of the uncomfortable seat, sadistic boy-king Joffrey (Jack Gleeson), has discarded Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) for a new would-be bride, Lady Margaery (Natalie Dormer). His uncle, Tyrion (Emmy winner Peter Dinklage), is scarred and out of favor after last season’s climactic battle.
The waramong all he aspiring kings has turned, with Robb Stark (Richard Madden) forced to imprison his own mother (Michelle Fairley) after she defied him by sending away Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in a desperate attempt to negotiate the release of her daughters.
Meanwhile, Jon Snow has infiltrated the massive army of wildings marching to attack the Wall, which protects Westeros from the menaces alive and dead roaming the frigid North. But will Snow be able to excricate himself to deliver a warning about the Night’s Watch?
If the storyline hews closely to Martin’s books, some major characters will be hewn down. There will be a horrifying death scene so terrible, Martin told the News in 2011, it was the most horrific sequence he’d ever written. (“When I reached it, I could not do it, I just skipped it and went on. ... I had to go back after I finished up the entire book,” he said.)
“This is the biggest season, not to sound like ad copy, but just factually, objectively in terms of the scope, we literally have casts of thousands,” says Benioff. “This is the one that was the most challenging. This is just where the stakes got a whole lot bigger for a large number of characters.”
“‘Season three, s— gets real,’” deadpans Weiss.
“That’s what we wanted on the poster, but HBO said no,” says Benioff.
This is, after all, a show that beheaded its lead 11 episodes into the first season.
“If someone gets the chop, it’s always to serve the story, and it reflects the harshness of that world — it’s as beautiful as it is brutal,” says Gillen, “and you can’t have one without the other.”
“Besides, I quite like a good death.”
Fortunately there will be reinforcements joining the cast, including Diana Rigg’s Lady Olenna, an acerbic sort who makes “Downton Abbey’s” Dowager Countess look like a delicate flower.
“Part of the first thing she said about the show is, ‘There’s an awful lot of bonking isn’t there?’” says Weiss. “And then she said, ‘I like it.’”
It’s a far cry from the days where being risque on television was shoehorning yourself in a form-fitting catsuit, according to Rigg, who became a sex symbol in the 1960s as Emma Peel in “The Avengers.”
The waramong all he aspiring kings has turned, with Robb Stark (Richard Madden) forced to imprison his own mother (Michelle Fairley) after she defied him by sending away Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in a desperate attempt to negotiate the release of her daughters.
Meanwhile, Jon Snow has infiltrated the massive army of wildings marching to attack the Wall, which protects Westeros from the menaces alive and dead roaming the frigid North. But will Snow be able to excricate himself to deliver a warning about the Night’s Watch?
If the storyline hews closely to Martin’s books, some major characters will be hewn down. There will be a horrifying death scene so terrible, Martin told the News in 2011, it was the most horrific sequence he’d ever written. (“When I reached it, I could not do it, I just skipped it and went on. ... I had to go back after I finished up the entire book,” he said.)
Natalie Dormer as Margaery and Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in “Game of Thrones”
“‘Season three, s— gets real,’” deadpans Weiss.
“That’s what we wanted on the poster, but HBO said no,” says Benioff.
This is, after all, a show that beheaded its lead 11 episodes into the first season.
“If someone gets the chop, it’s always to serve the story, and it reflects the harshness of that world — it’s as beautiful as it is brutal,” says Gillen, “and you can’t have one without the other.”
“Besides, I quite like a good death.”
Fortunately there will be reinforcements joining the cast, including Diana Rigg’s Lady Olenna, an acerbic sort who makes “Downton Abbey’s” Dowager Countess look like a delicate flower.
“Part of the first thing she said about the show is, ‘There’s an awful lot of bonking isn’t there?’” says Weiss. “And then she said, ‘I like it.’”
It’s a far cry from the days where being risque on television was shoehorning yourself in a form-fitting catsuit, according to Rigg, who became a sex symbol in the 1960s as Emma Peel in “The Avengers.”
( From NYdailynews )
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