The ten-minute preview that was teased last week. Is it April yet?
Video: The latest Game of Thrones teaser
I’m hearing this is actually a preview of a preview, with a significantly longer version coming with the Boardwalk Empire finale next week.
Video: HBO teases A Game of Thrones
The first teaser for the upcoming Game of Thrones aired tonight, targeting the True Blood faithful. The video is very blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, but you can head over to the official page (or the fanblog Winter is Coming) for a good look at Sean Bean in costume.
Since we last checked in, a few roles have been recast: Michelle Fairley has stepped in as Catelyn, and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys. Filming is due to start in July.
Sean Bean is Ned and more Games of Thrones casting
George R.R. Martin himself has good news from the first round of casting for HBO’s Game of Thrones adaption: Getting-killed-in-fantasy movies vet Sean Bean has, as rumored, signed on to play the role of Lord Eddard Stark. Martin says:
For the movie fans out there, Sean Bean needs no introduction. I mean, what the hell, he was Boromir and he was Sharpe, he was terrific in both roles, and in a hundred other parts besides. I can’t imagine a better Ned. The deal took some doing, so my fingers have been crossed for a month now (and boy, that made it hard to type), but now it’s done, and I’m thrilled.
And for the role of Robert Baratheon, Mark Addy, who you may recognize from A Knight’s Tale. There’s also news on some of the younger roles – including Jon Snow. Head on over to his Livejournal for the details!
HBO’s Game of Thrones casts their Tyrion
The fans – and George R. R. Martin himself – were pulling for Peter Dinklage to play Tyrion Lannister, and today The Hollywood Reporter announced him as the first actor cast in the pilot. We also get word of a director, Tom McCarthy.
HBO greenlights A Game of Thrones pilot
The A Song of Ice and Fire TV show moves one very big step closer to reality with this morning’s news that HBO has greenlit the pilot. There’s no guarantee that they’ll pick up the series from there, but the script is “very faithful” to the book, according to author George R.R. Martin. Whether that makes it good TV we’ll just have to wait and see…
The folly of youth: Let’s own our shame together
As I’m technically still reading the most shameful series of my adolescence, linking MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits might very well be an act of supreme hypocrisy.
Oh well. I might still be an Expanded Universe fan (or am I?) but at least I never read The Wheel of Time. It’s a slim victory if anything, but I’ll take it. At least until I remember how many Melanie Rawn novels I own in hardcover.
UPDATE: But wait, there’s more!
GRRM not feeling the Star Wars love
George R. R. Martin prefers Forbidden Planet. Perhaps George should have borrowed from Shakespeare instead of Kurosawa… (Not that Forbidden Planet didn’t inspire a bottomless pit or two.)
TV News Roundup
Battlestar Galactica is hemorrhaging viewers, thanks to the use of DVR’s. Can the Sunday night move save it? Apparently, a decision will be made mid-February when the actors’ contracts are up.
HBO will be developing George R.R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire into a television series.
And the producers of Lost insist they have an endpoint in mind. You apparently have two more seasons to enjoy, as they’d like to end it at 100 episodes. And here you thought they were making this up as they went along….