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  • Watch Melisandre From ‘Game of Thrones’ Ruin a Baby Shower

    Game of ThronesNights with a newborn baby can be tough, but probably not “dark and full of terrors.”

    In a hilarious sketch on “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” the host invites his “old college friend” Melisandre from “Game of Thrones” to his baby shower, and well, she’s not really into sweet party games and cooing over presents.

    When Seth and his wife say they’re waiting to find out the baby’s gender until it’s born, Melisandre (Carice van Houten) warns, “Pray that it’s a son so the Lord of Light can look down upon him with favor,” she added when the subject of the baby’s gender was broached. “And if it’s a girl, lock it away in a dark tower forever and hope it’s not consumed by grayscale.”
    “You’re always saying you don’t have any female friends, and this is why,” an exasperated Seth tells the sorceress. Oh, and telling the story about the time you had a demon baby … probably isn’t going to endear you anybody, Mel.

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  • Creepy ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6 Teaser Trailer Will Give You Chills

    Game of ThronesThe dead speak in a new teaser trailer for “Game of Thrones” season 6.

    The 1:19-long video doesn’t show any new footage (boo!), and functions far more as a teaser than we’d like. As the camera moves through the creepy Hall of Faces in Braavos, it lingers on the characters who’ve died during the past five seasons. We hear them speak: Ned Stark remind us that “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword,” while Joffrey boasts “Everyone is mine to torment.”
    Finally, we come to the face of Jon Snow, who warns of the long night ahead, and the camera pans out to reveal the faces of all the surviving characters, including Tyrion Lannister, Arya Stark, and Daenerys Targaryen. Looks like no one is safe in season 6.

    Not much is known about what will happen this year. T’he HBO drama has caught up to George R.R. Martin’s books, and will even outpace them.

    “Game of Thrones” season 6 premieres April 24.

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  • New ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6 Photos Tease Returning Characters

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  • The Original ‘Game of Thrones’ Pilot Was a ‘Painful’ ‘Piece of S–t’

    game of thrones, game of thrones pilotThe original “Game of Thrones” pilot has become the stuff of television legend, since it featured significantly different plots, and several different main actors, from the final product that audiences saw on HBO back in 2011, and was widely considered pretty terrible. Now, the showrunners have recently discussed just how bad their first crack at adapting George R.R. Martin’s books really was, and it turns out that that first pilot was “a complete piece of s–t.”

    That assessment came courtesy of screenwriter Craig Mazin (the “Hangover” sequels, “Identity Thief”), who together with fellow writer John August (“Big Fish”) runs the podcast Scriptnotes. The pair hosted “Thrones” showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff on a recent episode for a frank discussion about the fantasy drama’s pilot, which Mazin saw at a screening for friends organized by Weiss and Benioff back in 2010.

    It didn’t go well.

    “Watching them watch that original pilot was one of the most painful experiences of my life,” Weiss recalled. “As soon as it finished, Craig said, ‘You guys have a massive problem.’”

    Turns out Weiss and Benioff agreed.

    “I was taking notes,” Benioff said of the screening, “and I had this yellow legal pad, and I just remembered writing in all caps, ‘MASSIVE PROBLEM,’ and it’s all I could think about the rest of the night. Craig didn’t really have any great ideas except that he said, ‘Change everything.’”

    It turns out that that was great advice, though, since that’s pretty much exactly what Weiss and Benioff did. Director Tom McCarthy (now an Oscar nominee for “Spotlight”) was replaced by Timothy Van Patten, who re-shot about 90 percent of the pilot. That much reworking is usually a sign of major problems to come with most series; thankfully, with “Thrones,” it was all for the better, as Mazin soon discovered. He said on Scriptnotes:

    I will never forget being invited to the premiere of the first season. I went in just thinking (skeptically), “Well, I guess we’ll just see how this goes.” I sat there and this show unfolds and I am stunned. Stunned. And I very specifically remember walking out and I said to [Weiss and Benioff], “That is the biggest rescue in Hollywood history.” Because it wasn’t just that they had saved something bad and turned it really good. You had saved a complete piece of s–t and turned it into something brilliant. That never happens!

    Multiple Emmys later, it looks like things have worked out okay for the “GOT” crew.

    [via: Scriptnotes, h/t Vanity Fair]

    Photo credit: HBO

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  • New ‘Game of Thrones’ Promos Urge Fans to Declare Their Allegiance

    Game of ThronesIn the struggle for the Iron Throne, which House do you pledge allegiance to?

    Three new promos for “Game of Thrones” season 6 pit Houses Stark, Lannister, and Targaryen against each other for fan support on social media. Each short video is more of a mood piece than a look at the new season, but they’re still fun teasers. The one for House Stark features a torn banner, with Ramsay Bolton claiming Winterfell as his own. House Lannister’s echoes with the eery septa chanting “Shame! Shame!” And in the House Targaryen promo, a Dothraki voice taunts Daenerys that she is “Queen of Nothing.”

    Watch them all below:


    “Game of Thrones” returns with its sixth season April 24 on HBO.

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  • ‘Game of Thrones’ Sets Season 6 Premiere Date; Plus, the Latest on Seasons 7 and 8

    Game of ThronesFinally, “Game of Thrones” fans know when they’ll find out if Jon Snow lived or died (come on, he totally lived). HBO announced that the fantasy drama will return for a sixth season April 24.

    HBO president Michael Lombardo had even more exciting news to deliver at the winter Television Critics Association press tour — they are in negotiations with executive producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss for seventh and eighth seasons, according to Deadline.

    “David and Dan are feeling there’s probably two more years after season 6, that’s what we’re looking at right now,” Lombardo said back in July. “We hope that they would change their mind, but that’s how they are feeling now.”

    It’s unclear if the showrunners have received insight from author George R.R. Martin on how he plans to wrap up his epic saga. Already, the show has caught up to the book series, and Martin admitted earlier this month that he had not met his end-of-year-deadline for the sixth novel, “Winds of Winter.”

    If the author takes as much time to write the final book in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series as he did the last two, “Game of Thrones” may very well outpace its source material.

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  • See Cute Photos From ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6’s Wrap Party

    And now their watch has ended? “Game of Thrones” Season 6 premieres in April 2016, and it looks like the cast is just about done filming the 10 episodes for HBO. A wrap party/Christmas party was held over the weekend at the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and it looks like it was a grand old time. (Belfast is a main shooting location for GoT.)

    Watchers on the Wall shared pics from the party, along with some end-of-season casting spoilers, which you can check out over here, if you’d like. Here are some wrap party photos of stars Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Liam Cunningham (Davos), and more:

    #GoT6 Wrap Party was great, and thanks to @sophiet and @maisie_williams for the selfie! #gameofthrones #Belfast

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    Meeting Liam Cunningham! Such a gentleman!

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    It has to be a good sign for their characters if they’re at the wrap party, no?

    Meanwhile, the first official Season 6 poster and teaser both featured Jon Snow (Kit Harington), so we know JS will be a major player in the 2016 season. HBO’s first new Season 6 footage — hidden in a network promo — showed Cersei, Tommen, Ramsay, and Dany.

    Are you excited for GoT to hurry back and tell us what happens next?

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  • Jon Snow Stars in First ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6 Teaser

    Like Game of Thrones,” the first teaser of the new season is extremely Jon Snow-centric, stirring up hope in fans that the dearly-departed protagonist is due for a resurrection after his untimely end in season five.

    The brief clip features narration from Three-Eyed Raven (new cast member Max Von Sydow), who declares, “The past is already written. The ink is already dry,” over imagery of Snow, who we see die all over again, his dead-eyed gaze staring up at us from a pool of his own blood.

    But as has been widely hinted at by various members of the cast and crew (not to mention that poster), Jon Snow may not be definitively dead yet, a notion that’s confirmed by his half-brother, Bran Stark, in another bit of narration at the teaser’s end.

    “They have no idea what’s going to happen,” Bran says ominously, easily applying that same logic to fans of the show.

    Indeed. And we’ll have to wait a bit longer to find out.

    Season six of “Game of Thrones” is due to debut on HBO sometime in April 2016.

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  • Even Jon Snow Might Smile at This Gingerbread Version of King’s Landing

    Hodor! Winter is coming, but the holiday season is already here, and one creative fan honored the spirit of the season and HBO’s “Game of Thrones” with an impressive gingerbread version of King’s Landing.

    Check it out:

    Wow. You can almost see a little gingerbread Cersei Lannister being shamed as she walks through the gingerbread streets. The artist, a cake designer based in London named Michelle Wibowo, shared some of her own photos, giving just a glimpse of her process:

    According to the Evening Standard, the King’s Landing replica was the centerpiece of the three-day event, “The Taste of London: The Festive Edition,” but — they added — fans also got a chance to sit on the Iron Throne while sampling a Wild Beer. Sounds like an event worthy of song. And since the gingerbread King\\’s Landing turned out so well, Wibowo should keep going and do all of Westeros, then make gingerbread dragons so Daenerys Targaryen can fly her way to the throne.

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