Casting news from the TV series

[Ghost of Harrenhal]

Joffrey looks like my Aunt Mary.

 

[Bazza]

Haha I thought he was a she too in that picture before I matched up the names to the faces. I love that shot of Theon, the first picture I thought made him look like an awful Theon. I feel much better about Alfie-Owen now! Thanks Wert!

 

[mushroomyakuza]

Actually, looking at them here, Joffrey looks a little bit more like I imagined Robert Arryn to look. And Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy - I'm not buying it. I love most of them though, but I am wary of Lena Headey after TSCC.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Excellent post, Werthead.

The irony is, the TV production seems to be running faster than George's writing at present!

 

[mushroomyakuza]

Indeed :s. Pick it up, George!

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Just had a thought: if the pilot is picked up and the show goes ahead, and if the remaining books take four years each to be published, how will the show continue in later seasons? Won't all the child actors grow up too quickly?

 

[JDP]

@HJ, although the books might take four years each, the seasons ashould only be a year apart, so not wildly dissimilar to the passage of time through the books. This shouldn't be a problem IMO; the series will be playing catch-up to the books for a few years yet (fingers crossed).

The problem will come if the pace of filming the series starts overtaking the writing of the books ¦:¬o

At the moment, if GRRM continues at his current pace, the two channels (series & books) should tie up nicely together for the last book/seaon.

 

[Culhwch]

There could be a problem, though - from aGoT through the end of aFfC, how much time passes? I'd say maybe a year and a half, two years, if that? Not the four it would take to film four seasons. Then again, the issue is most likely only going to affect Sansa and Arya, and maybe Joffrey - the other actors look past their growing years...

 

[Werthead]

There could be a problem, though - from aGoT through the end of aFfC, how much time passes? I'd say maybe a year and a half, two years, if that? Not the four it would take to film four seasons. Then again, the issue is most likely only going to affect Sansa and Arya, and maybe Joffrey - the other actors look past their growing years...

From the start of AGoT to the end of AFFC is somewhere between two and two and a half years. ADWD is expected to expand that by several months.

 

[Lofwyr]

There's another interesting question. How would the series address AFFC and ADWD? Technically there would be content for two full seasons, but the time frame for each one essentially the same. Not to mention you lose half the cast for each season if done true to the novels.

 

[Ursa major]

The structure of the novels is having to be ejected from day one. (Different media require different narrative structures.) I'm not sure whether concentrating on single POVs for long periods would work, but the producers don't appear to think so.

In the event that the HBO series runs long enough to incorporate AFFC and ADWD, the producers and script writers will produce series and shows that will meet their narrative needs. How these will compare to the books, I don't know. We will have to wait and see.


(ASoIaF seems to involve a lot of waiting, one way or another.)

 

[Boaz]

Mayhaps season four will be A Feast for Dragons and season five will be A Dance with Crows.

 

[Culhwch]

Maybe it'll just be the one season - A Feastdance for Dragoncrows?

 

[Werthead]

There's another interesting question. How would the series address AFFC and ADWD? Technically there would be content for two full seasons, but the time frame for each one essentially the same. Not to mention you lose half the cast for each season if done true to the novels.

I think the current plan is to mix and match the POVs in AFFC and ADWD together but depict them over two seasons. So Season 4 will end halfway through AFFC and halfway through ADWD and Season 5 will pick up there.

Hmm. Deja vu.

 

[Boaz]

George commented that he's going over to Ireland to watch the filming... and that he'll most likely do a couple signings.

 

[Lofwyr]

George commented that he's going over to Ireland to watch the filming... and that he'll most likely do a couple signings.

maybe watching his opus being transcribed to another format will give him inspiration to finally untangle that mereeneese knot.

 

[Culhwch]

Looks like the Hound has been cast...

An Aside | The Hound cast in HBO’s A Game of Thrones Pilot | A Dribble of Ink

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

Jings! That's great news! Although at 6'6" he is definitely raising the bar for how tall Gregor will have to be...

 

[purple_kathryn]

Ahh Lurch in Hot Fuzz! Good choice - well body wise.

 

[Hilarious Joke]

I'm not sure about this one, because all I can think of is his role in Hot Fuzz. But I'll reserve my judgment until the pilot.