Pause for a moment when next you collapse onto the couch with your box of popcorn and soda to escape to the world of fantasy that is the epic drama - Game of Thrones. Do you ever think about the amount of work that goes into filming some of those scenes? No, me neither!
Well, here’s one for the record books, the cast and crew have just finished filming a battle scene that took a staggering 55 days and nights to shoot for the upcoming 8th and final season of Game of Thrones that is set for broadcast sometime next year.
It is officially the longest battle scene shoot in television history, stretching over, as we mentioned, 55 days and 55 nights in three different locations.
The planning must have been a dauting task on its own, and let’s not talk about the budget.
Jonathan Quinlan, an assistant director on the series took a photo during one of the shoots and posted it on Instagram along with a lengthy caption which inlcuded the following, "This is for the Night Dragons. For enduring 55 straight nights. For enduring the cold, the show, 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."
The post was subsequently deleted but not before it had been seen by plenty of fans.
So, hopefully, now that you’ve read this, when you sit down, as one of the tens of millions of fans around the world, to watch the 8th and final season, you will doff your hat to cast and crew.
Game of Thrones by the way, is the world's most pirated TV show.
