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Jim Broadbent joins Game of Thrones season 7 in “significant” role

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HBO has cast its first new addition for the seventh season of Game of Thrones, with Entertainment Weekly reporting that Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Harry Potter) has signed on for a “significant” role. With the producers opting to keep details of said role under wraps, we can only speculate as to who Broadbent could be […]

George R.R. Martin releases an excerpt from The Winds of Winter

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A Song of Ice & Fire author George R.R. Martin has given fans a taste of what’s in store in his long-awaited novel The Winds of Winter by releasing a chapter via his website (which you can read it here).  The chapter is being touted as a dig at the television show – which has deviated somewhat […]

George R.R. Martin thinks The Winds of Winter will be out this year

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For the past few years, author George R.R. Martin has refused to offer any predictions as to when we’ll see the release of The Winds of Winter, the sixth instalment of his A Song of Ice and Fire saga. However, he’s now given fans hope that we’ll see the book in our lifetimes, posting on […]

HBO goes from Westeros to Westworld

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Long before Interstellar (2014) sought inspiration from the works of American theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, a former Harvard Medical School graduate made a name for himself by creating scientific thrillers that dealt with illegal organ transplants and the resurrection of extinct species from DNA samples.   Not surprisingly Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay for the […]

UPDATE: Game of Thrones’ Hardhome and Battle of the Bastards director returning for final season

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The director of Hardhome, and other infamous episodes, will be returning to Game of Thrones for the final season. Hardhome and Battle of the Bastards are two episodes that live in infamy, even by Game of Thrones’ standards, and what these two episodes have in common is that they were both directed by Miguel Sapochnik. […]

Game of Thrones: What Flights Through the Past Await Bran Stark?

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Tony Black on what flights through the past might await Bran Stark in Game of Thrones season 6… Brandon Stark may never walk again, but he has already begun to fly. Spoilers abound for season six episode two, ‘Home’, of Game of Thrones, in which after a season of rest and relaxation in the Three-Eyed […]

Looks like we’ll have a little longer to wait for Game of Thrones season 7

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We already known we’re getting a shortened season when Game of Thrones returns, and it seems we’ll also have to wait a little longer before the epic fantasy series returns to HBO, as showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have revealed that season seven won’t be premiering in its usual April slot. “[W]e don’t have […]

Game of Thrones showrunners rule out involvement with potential spinoff: “For us, this is it”

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Game of Thrones scooped the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for the second consecutive year last night (and in the process, set a new record as the most decorated TV show in Emmy history). The epic fantasy series has just two seasons remaining, but given its incredible success, there’s been a lot of speculation […]