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2019-03-05 13:30:35
ell, we’re pretty much at peak hype now.
Entertainment Weekly’s James Hibberd, long on the front lines of Game of Thrones reporting, has written an on-scene account of what it was like for the Game of Thrones cast and crew to film the Battle of Winterfell, the action centerpiece of season 8. “What we have asked the production team and crew to do this year truly has never been done in television or in a movie,” said producer Bryan Cogman, jumping right in. “This final face-off between the Army of the Dead and the army of the living is completely unprecedented and relentless and a mixture of genres even within the battle. There are sequences built within sequences built within sequences. [Showrunners] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss wrote] an amazing puzzle and [director] Miguel [Sapochnik] came in and took it apart and put it together again. It’s been exhausting but I think it will blow everybody away.”
Let’s start with the basics. We don’t know the details, but we’ve been watching the production work long enough to know that there is going to be a spectacular battle sequence set at Winterfell sometime in season 8, probably Episode 3. The living have gathered at the Stark home base. There are tensions. But the army of the dead is on its way, so the living will have to put aside their differences, cause the dead mean business and so does the show. The Battle of Winterfell will be the longest battle sequence ever, on TV or film. Sapochnik, who previously directed landmark episodes like “Hardhome,” “Battle of the Bastards” and “The Winds of Winter,” looked around for a longer battle sequence and couldn’t find one; the closest is the nearly 40-minute Helm’s Deep sequence from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.