EntertainmentGame of Thrones prequel starts filming (and in a familiar location)

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The Game of Thrones prequel is officially underway.

Filming has quietly begun on the untitled follow-up to HBO’s fantasy sensation, which is shooting a pilot this summer in hopes for a series order.

The shooting location is a familiar one: Northern Ireland, which served as the production of hub for GoT during its entire run. It’s not yet clear if the prequel will also shoot in other countries as well.

The GoT prequel is from showrunner Jane Goldman (X-Men: First Class) along with author George R.R. Martin and director S.J. Clarkson (Jessica Jones). The story is set thousands of years (roughly 5,000, according to Martin) before the events in GoT.

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I’m told the show’s prequel began filming in Belfast two weeks ago and has the working title Bloodmoon. The new series, set more than five He also revealed there are three more prequels planned. I just hope they don’t milk this cash cow too much. Game of Thrones - Cersei Lannister

Game of Thrones started filming in Spain for season six. The cast and crew really got around Spain traveling up and down the country. The Game of Thrones films in some of the most exotic locations on earth. Besides the locations and film sets mentioned above, Game of Thrones has

“Westeros is a very different place,” Martin told EW previously. “There’s no King’s Landing. There’s no Iron Throne. There are no Targaryens — Valyria has hardly begun to rise yet with its dragons and the great empire that it built. We’re dealing with a different and older world and hopefully that will be part of the fun of the series.”

The show boasts an ensemble cast led by Naomi Watts (King Kong) along with Naomi Ackie, Denise Gough, Miranda Richardson, Josh Whitehouse, Jamie Campbell Bower, Sheila Atim, Ivanno Jeremiah, Alex Sharp and Toby Regbo.

Martin has suggested the show will be titled The Long Night, which was also the title of the third episode of GoT‘s final season. If the pilot is greenlit to series, the earliest we’re likely to see the show on the air is late 2020; with the spring of 2021 a more likely launch target given that’s when HBO preferred to premiere seasons of GoT.

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The Game of Thrones title sequence introduces every episode and changes depending on the locations visited in that particular episode. The title sequence consists of a three-dimensional map of the world, with the continents of Westeros and Essos located on the inner surface of a sphere.

This recap of "The Night Lands" features a detailed section on each of the episodes scenes. Arya Stark squats by a stream in the Riverlands. She walks back to Yoren's party of Night's Watch recruits, relacing her britches.

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