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Season 8 Just Finished Filming the Longest Battle Shoot in Game of Thrones History!

Battles are infamously difficult to film. Actors have to learn and repeatedly execute insanely complex choreography; hundreds of extras have to be managed; and horses don’t care about your schedule. So, battles take a long time: the greatest ones yet, the Battle of the Bastards and the Loot Train ambush, each swallowed about a month of precious production time. If you understand that’s a lot, you’ll be properly impressed when you learn that the battle shoot we have been following since late January has now wrapped after 55 consecutive nights! Beware: known spoilers are discussed below!


The largest battle sequence ever in Game of Thrones has finally come to a close, after months of night shoots at the Moneyglass set in Toome and the Magheramorne green screen set.

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Bullseye Mother****ers

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And to the surprise of NOBODY, GRRM confirms that Winds of Winter will not be released in 2018. Instead he is releasing a 1,000 page book about the history of the Targaryan conquest or whatever.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...h-year-1105752

I know this much, I'm not spending a damn dime on a new book that obviously took away a crap load of time he could have spent on finishing WoW and the 7th book. Sorry George, not going to happen.

He's got to be trolling.

I become more and more convinced I'm right - he's got BOTH books done and sitting on his nightstand, and he's just waiting until the show is over to release them. And laughing at everyone that mother****s him from afar.

l hope so. :#

He could be doing both books, I've wondered about that too. As complex as they are, it would make some sense to try to get book 7 mostly done to be sure it all works together as it should. I'm afraid that is just wishful thinking though.

On the other hand, I can also kind of understand if he figures he should wait until the TV series ends at this point before putting out another book in the series. I hope you're right because if not, then it is just more and more likely the books never get finished.

Why wait?

Damn right. I'm not sure at this point I will ever buy another of his books.

Right up until Winds of Winter comes out and you buy it on day one.

Not to step on the show's toes?

I doubt it ever comes out, and even then I might "borrow" it, or wait for it to be available at the library.

I doubt if I will. I've really come to loathe this guy personally, and don't want to put any more money in his pocket than I already have.

Plus, the last couple of books sucked anyway.

As I've said many times, I wish I'd never read the books at all. All they did was ruin what would have been great surprises in the show.

GRRM wanted to let us all know how much he cares about what we think.

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