Sunday, December 2, 2012

'Game of Thrones' creators go behind the scenes on 'The Battle of the Blackwater'

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The last season of HBO's Game of Thrones came to a dramatic climax with "The Battle of the Blackwater" — a sprawling, blood-drenched episode in which nearly everyone in Westeros converges on King's Landing. In George R.R. Martin's book, A Song of Ice and Fire, the battle takes up a full six chapters, but for the HBO adaptation, Martin and co-creators Dan Weiss and David Benioff were forced to compress the action into 55 minutes of television — a task that proved especially demanding, as they explained in a recent interview with GQ.


Already pressed for time and short on resources, Martin and his team also had to deal with a last-minute directorial change, as they brought on Neil Marshall just days before shooting began. But over the...


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