Facts You Didn't Know about Game of Thrones

A Song of Ice and Fire - popular fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin inspired HBO ( David Benioff and D. B. Weiss) to make one of the most watched epic fantasy series ever. That was affirmed by many nominations and awards like Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series and Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Television Series, and many others. Making series out of a book can be pretty hard but Benioff and Weiss did it perfectly. It seems that everybody knows the plot, whether they've read the book or not, so let's just run through that quickly and then focus on some more interesting parts of making of this series.

In the fight for the Iron Throne, the story follows seven families originating from different parts of fictional land of Westeros, who all have the right to ascend the throne in some way. Of course, there are several co-dependent storylines concerning each one of them. The most prominent families are Stark, Lannister, Baratheon and Targaryen. During various struggles among the dynasties there are many political and especially sexual intrigues at work. In the Game of Thrones series (which was named after the first Martin's novel, though the others have a different title) you could see a display of characters who participated in other "big" movies also. Like Sean Bean for example, previously known as Boromir from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and Ciar n Hinds who played Aberforth Dumbledore in Harry Potter, Ceasar in the Rome series, in Ghost Rider - the Spirit of Vengeance and in John Carter along with Jason Momoa - a previous model (and actor in popular Baywatch) and later John Carter and latest Conan the Barbarian.

Another fact that might be interesting also is that they used real wolves as direwolves of the Stark family, of course they used CGI application (Computer-Generated Imagery) for enlarging them. And after the execution of Lady (Sansa's direwolf) the actress (Sophie Turner) adopted it.

And, yes, there is a special Dothraki language, which was created by David J. Peterson who made up about 1800 words and grammatical structure of this language, only to be used in the Game of Thrones.

As you know, you can't screen the book without some adding and missing something, but for the first two seasons the correspondence is almost exact, which won't be the case with third and fourth season, the producers announced.

There are two most repeated lines in the Game of Thrones, and those are (you remember these for sure) - A Lannister always pays his debts spoken by Tyrion Lannister and Winter is coming - by Eddard Stark.

This may interest you - if you want to be an extra in the shooting of the third season of the series, the castings will be held in London and Northern Ireland. As for the third season, the announcing "character" is the three-eyed raven flying above real cities.

And I guess that everybody wants to glimpse behind the camera, so we recommend you visit this production diary, it can be easily found on the net. Also if you want to hear the producers, Benioff and Weiss, as well as the main characters speaking about the series, I suggest you take a look at