With the filming wrapped, the wait begins. News may be drying up, but the buzz continues to build. Here is a collection of links to posts, articles and sites discussing the series:

- Tower of the Hand has a good write up on the project's chances at a series pickup.

-Sci fi site Airlock Alpha has a great article giving readers the basic details on the project so far plus analyzes it's chances at not just a series pickup, but sustained success.

-Westeros also has an article discussing the basic's of the project. In addition, they've posted an article discussing the visual effects for the pilot.

-Lastly, a new site, Game of Thrones UK, has popped up. Started by a Sharpe and Sean Bean fan, the site promises to bring you news, info and editorials on the project.

It is sorta poetic that almost one year to the day that I started this blog, filming for the pilot has wrapped. When I started this I thought that following this production so closely might make the wait even harder since I would be constantly thinking about it. But the time has seemed to fly by. That is thanks to many of the great discussions we have had here. You guys have made this site what it is and have led to HBO sitting up and taking notice of this fan base.

Filming on the Game of Thrones pilot is complete. This was confirmed via a Julia Frey blog post. The last few days were all night shoots, with the last day of filming being a Tue night/Wed morning shoot. Yesterday was the wrap party and today the cast and crew are packing up and heading home.

Now it is onto post-production: editing, effects, sound, etc. Depending on how polished HBO wants this pilot to be before making a decision, that work could take a few weeks or a few months. We know Modern VideoFilm will be doing some work on the pilot in February. GRRM mentioned a decision from HBO in March. I tend to think it will be earlier than that though as HBO generally likes to make quick decisions. I'm holding out hope for an early Christmas present from HBO.

Movieline caught up with the very busy Jamie Campbell Bower for a quick interview where they hit on all his various projects, The Prisoner, New Moon, Harry Potter and, of course, Game of Thrones. Below are the Thrones-related questions, hit the link for the full interview.

You’ve signed onto several book-to-film adaptations. Are you ever curious about how the fandoms are reacting to your casting?
I try to leave that out, just because for as many people that like you, there’s always going to be the same amount of people who hate you. Because we do what we do, we’re subject to our lives being put on display, almost. More and more people will comment on what they think of you. I don’t mind if people are saying nasty things about me behind my back — I just don’t want to know about them.

Have you already shot the pilot to Game of Thrones for HBO?
Yeah, just finished.

And you’re playing Waymar Royce. What can you tell me about him?
Ohhhh. Not very much.

But it already exists as a series of books! You wouldn’t be spoiling anything.
Well, it exists in pilot form for the television company. [Laughs] I don’t want to spill the beans, because they could be like [sing-songy voice], “Uh-uh. You said something bad, you can’t do it.” And I’d be fired!

Was it a good experience, at least?
It was a great experience. Very short shoot, but they threw a lot of money at it. Hopefully it’s going to be really good, and hopefully it’ll be greenlit and we’ll go ahead with it. It was great fun and a very strong, rich cast.

Only a few days of filming left and then... the waiting begins. George took some time out to update us (typed out on an Arabic keyboard no less) on his visit to Morocco and the progress of the filming so far. It sounds like they've filmed the first Dany scene and will be filming the wedding scene tonight.

And here I am in Morocco as the GAME OF THRONES pilot shoot winds down. This is likely to be q strqnge looking post. I am typing it from the business center of the Berbere Palqce in Ourazazate on a French/ Arabic keyboqrd zhere many of the letters qre not where my fingers expect to find them. No Qwert Yuiop here.

Morocco is a fascinating place; though oddly it reminds me of New Mexico in q lot of ways. Architecture especially. The Spanish style of NM showing its Moorish roots.

Marrakesh is amazing qnd I wish we hqd hqd more than q dqy to explore it. From there it was a four hour drive over the high sunk baked passes of the Atlas mountqins to Ouarzazate, the film center of Morocco. This plqce is pretty astonishing as well. The city looks as if it was built yesterday, with wide treeless streets lined by huge pink hotels and apartments and new contstruction everywhere. Outside the desert stretches away to the distant mountains, flat and dry and dusty, dotted with ruins and abandoned cities none of which look even vaguely Moroccan. Egyptian pharoahs stand twenty feet high, crusqder castles loom on the horizon, here's a Chinese fortress, here Sodom (or maybe Gomorrah), here a Roman ampitheater. I have q felling that Tombstone mqy be over thqt next ridge. From afar they look as if they hqve been here for centuries, but then you get up close and you realize they are all abandoned movie sets. The oldest have begun to crumble beneath the sun and sand, but they are still damned impressive;

Most imposing of all are the walls of old Jerusalem that Ridley Scott built for KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, which loom in the distance as you take the mqin road into the Ouuazazate, still surrounded by a ring of huge wooden siege towers and trebuchets, now crewed by lean brown dogs. One small portion of the Jerusalem set, redressed and repainted, became the courtyard of Illyrio's manse where Dany first meets Khal Drogo. Thqt was the scene they were filming zhen Ty and I arrived, and it looked gorgeous.

I'd say more; but this keyboard is driving me batty, and my ti,e is running out in any case;

Tonight the wedding!

Yesterday the production arrived in Morocco and today, I am assuming, they began filming in earnest. Julia Frey put up a short blog post about being in Morocco; Ouarzazate to be exact. A quick peek at Wikipedia reveals that Ouarzazate is Morocco's version of Hollywood, so it makes sense that would be home base.

No reports from George R. R. Martin yet, although he was scheduled to arrive in Morocco yesterday. I imagine he will wait until returning home to post again. As expected, the set reports have dried up now that the location has moved from Northern Ireland to Northern Africa.

We did get some more details about the filming in Belfast via Esme Bianco's live chat yesterday. As you can imagine, Game of Thrones fans were there in force. Esme was quite forthcoming on many of her answers. Some of the highlights include being impressed with the child actors during the table read, her mentioning that each of her three auditions the script was totally different and that they filmed her scene on location, not in the Paint Hall. Be sure to read the full chat for more info.

As usual, if I hear anything about the shoot today, I'll post it. But I wouldn't hold your breath.

UPDATE: Based on this tweet from Julia Frey, sounds like they will be finished filming in Morocco by the end of next week.

Based on the way this production has gone so far I am going to guess that today is a travel day. I expect they will use today to get everything set up and ready to go in Morocco to start filming tomorrow. Julia Frey's tweet this morning seems to support this theory. No idea how long they plan to film in Morocco but considering it is only going to be for about two scenes, I can't imagine it will take longer than a few days. And then, we wait.

In other news, the likelihood of a series order seems to grow ever more certain. The Hollywood Reporter's James Hibberd posted to his blog one of the photos from the Belfast signing. In the post he mentions that his sources are indicating that only if the producers "royally blow this pilot will the network fail to give it a green light." He adds to that in the comments, stating, "HBO realizes they have something special and are pretty stunned by the amount of online buzz this early."

So, now you may be asking, if we get the green light, what kind of production schedule are we looking at? Well Ran from Westeros seems to have the answer. He has a source indicating that they plan to film for 30 weeks if they get the green light. He speculates that this 30-week production may have been the source of the "30 episode" rumor. Seems plausible to me. Ran also states he contacted James Hibberd (in the comments of the aforementioned blog post) and Hibberd does not think it very likely for HBO to give a two season order prior to seeing any ratings from the first season.

UPDATE: A commenter by the name of Spiros, who claims to be connected to the production, has stated that they are still filming in the Paint Hall today. He also mentions that Buster Reeves is handling the stunts for the pilot.