Game of Thrones Spent 55 Days Shooting One Season 8 Battle
TVLine reports that HBO’s Game of Thrones recently completed filming a 55-day, three-location shoot that will bring a huge battle to life in Season 8. The news broke via a now deleted Instagram post from one of the series’ assistant directors.
Toome and Maghermorne Quarry are two locations in Northern Ireland where the series has been shooting its eighth and final season. A rep for HBO confirmed to TVLine that the assistant director had posted congratulations to his colleagues on social media but declined to discuss production specifics.
Game of Thrones‘ six-episode Season 8 will air in 2019.
H/T: TVLine
Meryl Streep Makes Her Big Little Lies Debut; Plus More Cast Members Announced
Filming has commenced on the second season of HBO’s Big Little Lies and star Nicole Kidman shared on Instagram a sneak peek of multiple Oscar winner Meryl Streep on the series’ set.
Streep has joined the cast as Mary Louise Wright, the mother of Alexander Skarsgard’s deceased character Perry (aka the mother-in-law of Kidman’s widow Celeste).
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TVLine reports that Merrin Dungey is set to return for Season 2 of the HBO drama. Dungey’s Detective Adrienne Quinlan will be a recurring guest star next season.
Also returning: Robin Weigert, who plays Celeste and Perry’s therapist Dr. Amanda Reisman; Kathryn Newton, who plays Madeline’s oldest daughter Abby; and Sarah Sokolovic, who plays Tori, the wife of theater director Joseph, who Madeline had an affair with in Season 1. Weigert will be a recurring guest star, while Newton and Sokolovic will be series regulars.
Joining the cast are: Crystal Fox (The Haves and the Have Nots) as Bonnie’s mother Elizabeth Howard, and Mo McRae (Empire, Pitch) as Michael Perkins, a teacher at the kids’ school who has a beef with Renata.
Season 2 of the Emmy-winning HBO drama will bring back headliners Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern, as well as co-stars Shailene Woodley, Adam Scott and Zoe Kravitz.
Big Little Lies‘ seven-episode second season is slated to premiere in early 2019.
HBO Releases New Trailer for Westworld Season 2
Fans of HBO’s Westworld get excited! A new trailer for Season 2 has been released.
The new trailer features action, robots, huge beautiful sets and a cover of Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box”.
You can watch the trailer down below:
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Season 2 of Westworld premieres on April 22nd at 9 pm, only on HBO.
Source: YouTube
First Look at Big Little Lies Season 2
Heads up BLL Fans! We got our first look at Season 2. Although not much, Laura Dern did post a Behind The Scenes look at her and co-star Resse Witherspoon. They are sitting down at a table and maybe they are gonna grab some coffee.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BghqJRQn802/?utm_source=ig_embed
No release date has been given for Season 2 and details are scarce. However, you can catch up on Season 1 on HBO GO.
Source: TVLine
Westworld Season 2 Returns This April
During the Super Bowl, we got our first look at Season 2 of HBO’S Westworld.
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With Season 1 becoming a huge hit with fans and critics, the new season will premiere on April 22, 2018, at 9 pm on HBO.
Source: HBO
HBO Finally Confirms Game of Thrones Comes Back in 2019
There have been speculations for a long time now that hit series Game of Thrones would not come back to our screens in 2018. Well, now those speculations have been confirmed, as HBO announced on Thursday that the show’s final season will not air until 2019.
The very short announcement was made on HBO’s main page:
The epic fantasy series Game of Thrones will return for its six-episode, eighth and final season in 2019.
David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik will be the directors for the new season. Writers for the new season are David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill.
This news comes as no surprise, as some people involved in the project have stated before that the show would not come back for a while.
This will be the final season of Game of Thrones and surely David Benioff and D.B. Weiss want to put out the best they can. Filming of the series started last October and it is rumoured to last until summer of this year.
Identity of Alleged HBO Hacker Revealed
Federal authorities have revealed the identity of the hacker who extorted HBO this summer.
The alleged hacker, who has been identified as Iranian Behzad Mesri, has been terrorizing and extorting HBO for several months. Mesri allegedly leaked several episodes of Ballers, Room 104 and Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as the script for HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones.
Mesri is officially wanted for “stealing proprietary data, including information about then-unreleased episodes of the popular television series, Game of Thrones, and then allegedly seeking to extort HBO.”
According to Entertainment Weekly, he’s also specifically wanted for allegedly being involved “in criminal activities to include unauthorized access to computer systems, stealing proprietary data from those systems, and attempted extortion for approximately $6 million in Bitcoin.”
According to the article, Mesri is a member of the Turk Black Hat Security hacking team.
An image of Mesri was released by the FBI.
HBO Wants to Film Several Different Endings for Game of Thrones to Avoid Leaks
HBO is taking a stand against leaks for the final season of their hit series Game of Thrones.
The network’s programming president Casey Bloys said last week that they’re planning to film several endings to season eight of the acclaimed series in order to avoid leaks.
“I know in ‘Game of Thrones,’ the ending, they’re going to shoot multiple versions so that nobody really knows what happens,” said Bloys. “You have to do that on a long show. Because when you’re shooting something, people know,” he added, “so they’re going to shoot multiple versions so that there’s no real definitive answer until the end.”
The decision comes after season seven’s plot details got accurately leaked online months before the show aired on HBO.
The final season of Game of Thrones is rumoured to air in 2019.
Source: The Morning Call.
Game of Thrones Season 8 Production to Run from October to August 2018
The Hollywood Reporter released an article on Monday talking about how it’s not a big deal that we’re going to have to wait at least 16 months for the final season of Game of Thrones, but we’re not over it.
As we know, season 8 will start production in October, and according to the article, filming might go on until August 2018.
This fact is not a surprise, considering it has been confirmed that we’re getting feature-length episodes throughout the season.
“The shooting is complicated enough,” said HBO programming president Casey Bloys, “and the special effects are a whole other production period that we’re trying to figure out.”
According to the article, showrunners D. B. Weiss and David Benioff have the episodes mapped out already and currently figuring out a schedule.
THR also pointed out that this two-year wait is not strange for HBO, as shows like Atlanta, The Sopranos and Westworld all have had/are having long periods of time between seasons.
Game of Thrones Promo Pictures for Season Finale Released + Episode Title and Official Run Time
This year’s season finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones airs this Sunday, and fans are ready.
Last week’s episode left quite a big hole in our hearts for reasons we prefer not to talk about. Now, we’re going to see almost all of our favourite characters in the same place for what looks to be the biggest GoT get-together ever.
This season finale will be called “The Dragon and The Wolf,” and it will run for 79 minutes, 43 seconds, making it the longest Game of Thrones episode to date.
With the title making direct references to the Targaryen and Stark house sigils, we can’t help but wonder if we might finally see what really happened between Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, or maybe we’ll get to see some action between Jon and Dany after that lovely/sad moment they shared last week… or both! Who knows?
HBO also released the official season finale photos featuring our favorite players, including Bronn and Theon as well as the Stark and Lannister siblings.
