Source:Visir.ir I bet Game of Thrones showrunner D.B. Weiss never thought this on-set interview with an Icelandic newspaper would make it back to the states. Skip to the 02:45 mark to hear the bits from Weiss.
What's that? Don't speak Icelandic and can't understand producer Chris Newman? Here's a transcript of his portion of the interview courtesy of
WinterIsComing.net.
-Newman pretty much confirms that Craster’s Keep was shot in Northern Ireland, as we suspected, and will feature in episodes 1 and 2. Iceland scenes are going to be used in over four eps, he said, listing episodes 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10.
-The producers of Game of Thrones are looking in to shooting more material in Iceland for next season and are thinking of using the midnight sun and the landscape for some smaller takes.
-The crew was getting ready to leave and head out to Höfðabrekkuheiði wher the next shooting will take place. Kit Harrington was still on the glacier and didn’t look to be affected by the cold weather.
-They spoke to one of the producers of the show, Chris Newman. He worked on Icelandic televesion series Nonni and Manni from 1988 and also met his wife in Iceland. He also met Snorri Þórisson who is the head of the producing company Pegasus.
-Newman was really happy with how the shooting was going and says that great luck had followed them. “The week before we began shooting there was 16°c and no snow. The day the director landed it started to snow and freeze”. The only problem he had that the landscape was too beautiful and maybe some people would find it difficult to believe it was real.
-Newman confirmed that they were looking in to use Iceland even more as a shooting location for next season.
-The shooting of Game of Thrones is almost as equally big as Ridley Scott’s Promotheus which was shot here during last summer.
Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels, the first of which is called A Game of Thrones, the television series debuted in the U.S. on April 17, 2011. The production is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with additional locations elsewhere in Europe also being used. The show's cast is mainly British and Irish.
Highly-anticipated since its early stages of development, Game of Thrones was very well received by fans and critics. The series was picked up for a second season on April 19, 2011, two days after its premiere. On July 14, 2011 the nominations for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards were announced, with Game of Thrones being nominated for 13 categories, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Peter Dinklage, which he won. The series also won an Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Design the weekend before, at the Academy's non-televised technical Emmy awards presentation.
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