Here are some small updates from over the weekend.
-Another Harry Lloyd interview, this one at This is London. In it, Lloyd mentions that his role in Game of Thrones has raised his profile in Hollywood and he has begun fielding calls from American agents.
-The Stark kids have discovered social media. Sophie Turner (Sansa), Maisie Williams (Arya) and Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran) all have created Twitter accounts. Sophie's got her own YouTube channel, as well. You can follow all the actors and crew of Game of Thrones from this Twitter list I created.
-Circle this date on your calendar: Jan 14th, the day of HBO's winter Television Critic's Association press event. Most of HBO's execs will be there to talk about their upcoming programming. Maureen Ryan has already informed us there will be no early pick up announcement, but at the very least I hope to hear some word on Thrones.
-In somewhat related news, HBO has released the teaser trailers for Treme and Boardwalk Empire. I'm particularly surprised they've released one for Empire already, as they are still in the process of filming season one. They announced the pick up about 4 months ago, so assuming they follow the same timeline for Thrones, we may get our first teaser trailer by July!
[Thanks to Mauberly, Westeros, spacechampion and The rabbit for the above info.]
January 14th is in 3 days! :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is getting increasingly strange - where is everybody? I didn't check in here for two days, only to get another first entry on a post?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks to the people who found these bits & pieces!
If HBO mention it, it'll probably have to be in response to a Q&A. I suspect it'll be something like, "It's looking great so far, post-production is not complete yet, we'll make an announcement in March etc."
ReplyDeleteI do wonder if the fact that the (presumably late) March date is set in stone means they are thinking they will commission the series and are planning some kind of big announcement, possibly in conjunction with news on other programming? Probably wishful thinking.
Adam: That is what I expect. They did the same for Boardwalk Empire during the summer TCA event, if you remember. Basically saying "it looks great, they are ready to film season one, just waiting on official announcement, blah blah blah"
ReplyDeleteMan, HBO is really putting a lot of stock in the value of David Simon's cred from "The Wire" with this new "Treme" show. As far as mass appeal goes, the key elements of "jazz" "New Orleans" and "dealing with Katrina" are about as user-unfriendly as they can get. I haven't heard anything about there being any actual "plot" in the show at all, rather it's being pitched as just an ensemble of people just coping with a bad time.
ReplyDeleteI'll watch but it's going to take some real magic from the writers and actors to make this one survive more than one season.
Love Sophie's Twitter background - a beautiful painting of Sansa.
ReplyDeleteAww, those twitters are sweet, school homework and controlling parents. Reminds me of my own teenage time - only without internet back then.
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ReplyDeleteNot like a detective series set in Baltimore had all that much mass appeal either though. I'll have to watch just because The Wire was probably my favorite series ever, but you're right. If Simon wasn't involved it wouldn't be at the top of my list to check out based on the concept itself.
hey Winter. Goingalong with your last thoughts regarding a possible trailer by July, I have this to add.
ReplyDeletehttp://true-blood.net/2009/07/30/hbo-officially-announces-true-blood-season-3/
HBO says season 3 of Trueblood will begin airing in June. By July season 3 will be in full swing. What better way to build excitment for GoT than to show the trailer before and after Blood? The time frame fits and the show they could attatch the trailer to (TB) should have a decent number of cross-over fans.
One small suggestion.. If they do go this way, more Jaime/Robb/Wolves in the trailer and less Tyrion and Ned. We want as many wanna-be fang-bangers as possible getting all tingly over the potential for more sexy hunks on HBO.
Somewhat related news. The Comic book adaptation for GRRM's Fevre Dream shows up in this month's Previews magazine, so that should be out in a few months.
ReplyDeleteHey, Ned is a sexy hunk when he's played by Sean Bean. :D
ReplyDeletewoah what girl wouldnt want tyrion.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know, the first proper 'finished' material for both TREME and BOARDWALK only appeared in the 2010 trailer HBO released on Christmas Eve, several months after both resumed filming after pick-up. To me that makes seeing a significant GoT trailer with lots of footage (like the BOARDWALK one that went up today) only a few weeks after production resumes unlikely (although they can of course use shots from the pilot).
ReplyDeleteIt's more possible they'll do some kind of brief 'teaser' thing around that time, maybe just a black background and the Stark sigil or the phrase "Winter is Coming," or something followed by '2011' and maybe the relevant web address on the official HBO site (which will likely just be a placeholder with the logo on it, but still).
Well, there goes my vow to never join Twitter.
ReplyDeleteBoardwalk Empire looks like a smash waiting to happen. Like with Game of Thrones, it can take its time telling its story; the prohibition era in all its glory, with all the double standards of that bygone time, replete with lessons of human foibles and the frailties of life. Its what I look forward to and expect from that production, at any rate. I think Boardwalk Empire will succeed in putting us in that era.
ReplyDeleteTreme I expect will be a slower cook. It's David Simon. I don't think the setting matters so much as the stories being told. I expect to sit back and just take in the dialogue. If any of you remember how The Wire started, it was mostly conversation. There weren't any huge action sequences. I think once it gets rolling we'll have another sleeper hit on our hands.
At least critically. We'll see if it pulls in numbers. I think Boardwalk Empire will though.
Jillian, that's interesting. According to ComicMonters the first issue of Fevre Dream comes out in late March.
ReplyDeleteLena Hedey is also on twitter
ReplyDeletehttp://twitter.com/LenaHeady
without much content so far
The poster formerly known as
Thoros of Myr
"Jimmy Nail for Yoren!"
Mauberly,
ReplyDeleteYep, that makes sense. If it's in January Previews, it'll be about 2 months before the actual product comes out, so March sounds about right. I was surprised actually, there was a two page add with some teaser art. Looks pretty good.
March is looking to be a good month (crosses fingers)
That's not the real Lena Headey. Note that with famous people there is an 'IDENTITY VERIFIED' tab in the top-right corner. If this isn't there, then assume the person is a fake until it appears.
ReplyDeleteThis came up when someone pretending to be Damon Lindelof (LOST producer) turned up, forcing the real Damon Lindelof to use a different handle for a while until Twitter sorted it out, took the name off the first person and gave it to the real Damon.
'GRRMpy' isn't the real GRRM either. I *think* that the 'George RR Martin' profile was created by GRRM or one of his assistants to deny its use to spammers, which is why there is no content on there.
TREME preview clip, which is rather (or indeed completely) light on content:
http://www.hbo.com/events/treme/index.html
The BOARDWALK EMPIRE one is considerably more interesting:
http://www.hbo.com/events/boardwalk-empire/index.html
Adam, not all of the famous/known people have that identity verification (yet). There are e.g. many authors who are the real authors, although not verified. The best way to check who's real and who's not is to go to his/her official website/blog and look if there's Twitter link.
ReplyDeleteBut that's true, Lena Headey is not on Twitter.
The Treme teaser trailer was pretty brief. The photography was freakin' beautiful - they certainly aren't going for the near-documentary style filming they did for most of The Wire, it seems. Can't tell much about the show from what we see there, though.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought the opening shot of the Boardwalk Empire trailer was shot at the Montauk Club in my neighborhood in Brooklyn (the shot with the cars in front of the fancy red brick building), but it's not the place (I checked on Google Maps street view). I know they shot something for the show at the Montauk, as well as other scenes in the neighborhood, but I somehow managed to never even see a single crew truck or trailer here.
Steve Buscemi lives literally around the corner from me, but I've only seen him twice around here (once in my favorite bagel shop, once just walking down the street). He figures very prominently in that trailer. Is he going to be the main star of the show?
Adam: I was under the impression that most, if not all, of the footage in the Boardwalk Empire trailer was from the pilot. Apparently they started filming again in mid-Nov so I don't think they would have had much completed footage from the current, ongoing shoot to use.
ReplyDeleteHBO could just as easily do a similar trailer for Thrones in July (released at the Comic Con perhaps?). The timing would be almost exactly the same.
Bantam Spectra is going to release new PB and TPB editions of A Game of Thrones in August. I wonder if there'll be new covers too (tv series covers?).
ReplyDelete@WiC i can see it at comic-con for sure.
ReplyDeletea bit of robert talking to ned with some voiceover of it while cutting to the girls and the lannisters. jon talking to bran at execution. ned lecturing that winter is coming as you see the scenes leading up to the others when the camp that had all the dead wildings is discovered empty. then the brother getting choked by the other's hand wearing moleskin gloves, cut to black, winter is coming....
The Boardwalk trailer was fun, but probably made by marketing. Flashy quick shots, simple soundtrack, few sound effects. Probably made in a week. Makes sense if they haven't had much footage to use.
ReplyDeleteThe Treme trailer already feels like a show. I'd say it was made by the actual showmakers, as it bears a strong resemblance to the Wire's 5 awesome opening credit sequences (heavy on music, few to no direct shots of people, mostly steady camera shots).
Hoping the GoT trailer shows the same quality.