As fans of “Game of Thrones” can attest, each season has seen an upgrade in the production value of the series. Watching from the first season to the most recent, you can see just how much growth the series has, in terms of budget and scope, over the last couple of years. The scope has grown so much that HBO and the creators of the series decided to limit the number of episodes to 6 for the upcoming last season, just to maximize the production value.
Well, it seems that the upcoming, final season of the series is going to outdo all the previous ones in at least one way. In a now-deleted Instagram post (screenshot shared on Twitter) by Assistant Director Jonathan Quinlan, fans got a peek at a letter that was sent from the producers of the series to the crew, thanking them for their hard work on a recent 55-day battle scene shoot.
You read that right, 55 days.
The letter said:
“This is for the Night Dragons. For enduring 55 straight nights. For enduring the cold, the snow, the rain, the mud, the sheep shit of Toome and the winds of Magheramorne. When tens of millions of people around the world watch this episode a year from now, they won’t know how hard you worked. They won’t care how tired you were or how tough it was to do your job in sub-freezing temperatures. They’ll just understand that they’re watching something that’s never been done before. And that’s because of you.”
To put that in perspective, the average TV series spends just over a week or so filming an episode. Definitely not 8 weeks for one episode. But then again, “Game of Thrones” isn’t like any other TV series. Each episode of “Game of Thrones” basically is its own film. So, the real question is what exactly took so long to film?
Obviously, we have no clue, but since it took only 25 days to shoot “The Battle of the Bastards,” then what we do know is that whatever battle this was, it was massive. Could this be the big battle between the living and the dead that we’ve been waiting for?
Next April can’t come soon enough…
تم الانتهاء من تصوير احد حلقات الموسم الثامن حيث نشر المخرج المساعد Jonathan Quinlan رساله شكر عبر حسابه يقول : " 55 ليلة متتالية. 11 اسبوع . 3 مواقع . لن ترى أبداً أي شيء يشبه ذلك"#قيم_اوف_ثرونز pic.twitter.com/USczdcvNid
— قيم اوف ثرونز (@Ar_GOT0) April 7, 2018