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Game of Thrones San Diego Comic Con Panel open chat

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SDCC logoThe one-hour Game of Thrones SDCC panel is kicking off today at 2.30 PM PDT (5.30 PM EDT; or 11.30 PM CEST for those in Europe).

As announced before, the panel will take place in Hall H and will be moderated by Seth Meyers this year. It will be followed by autograph signings at 4.15 PM. The confirmed list of panelists is as follows:

  • Carolyn Strauss, executive producer
  • David Nutter, director
  • John Bradley (Samwell Tarly)
  • Carice Van Houten (Melisandre)
  • Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy)
  • Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark)
  • Maisie Williams (Arya Stark)
  • Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth)
  • Hannah Murray (Gilly)
  • Conleth Hill (Varys)
  • Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth)
  • Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell)

The Making Game of Thrones blog lists the following two events taking place tomorrow that also include Thrones stars, namely Maisie and Gwendoline:

SATURDAY, JULY 11

TV Guide Magazine: Fan Favorites
When: 11:00am – 11:45am
Where: Ballroom 20

Maisie Williams joins this panel featuring some of TV’s biggest names to discuss what goes on behind the scenes.

Entertainment Weekly: Women Who Kick-Ass
When: 3:45pm – 4:30pm
Where: Hall H

Gwendoline Christie, the woman who plays Brienne of Tarth, joins four other fearless female stars.

The official programming notes for the two events:

TV Guide Magazine brings the screams to San Diego again for this all-star, must-see panel. Moderated by senior writer Damian Holbrook, stars from TV’s hottest shows provide a lively discussion filled with behind-the-scenes scoops. Panelists includeDavid Anders (iZombie), Yvette Nicole Brown (The Odd Couple), Wendi McLendon-Covey (The Goldbergs), Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead), Eliza Taylor (The 100),Ming-Na Wen (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), and Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones).

A discussion among fierce, fearless, actresses Gal Gadot (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter), Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who), Kathy Bates (American Horror Story), and other flat out fantastic females, who will open up about the power and privilege of playing women who redefine the rules and refuse to yield. Moderated by Sara Vilkomerson.

Use this post to share your expectations before the panel and comment live while it’s happening. We will bring you all the updates and highlights, as usual. Hoping for some juicy bits like last year when we saw a blooper reel and casting announcements!

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118 Comments

  1. Hodor!

    Here’s to the Crow’s Eye and Randyll the Mandyll, and maybe some juicy hints about what’s happening next season (particularly regarding the fate of a certain Lord Commander).

  2. I’ll be watching anxiously for news of casting announcements… other than that, I’m not expecting much. I’m sure they’ll be using this panel to double down on the idea that our favorite long-locked hero is dead.

  3. Some of my favorite characters and actors & actresses. Should be a great panel apart from whether or not any “news” comes out of it.

  5. Turncloak:
    Will we get official casting announcements today ?

    If we look at the past years? Yeah, guess so.

    But nothing is guaranteed, this ofc is the first season without books to base it upon so they might go for a non-spoiler presentation. But I think they will announce some stuff.

  6. I hope for casting announcements.

    I wonder if they’ll mention any of the controversy of condensing two novels into one season, i.e. Turner and Allen discussing that Sansa’s storyline was drastically condensed.

  7. For some reason I think the odds of getting a casting video or announcement are less than 50/ 50 this year…. No evidence for support, but it feels less likely this year to me.
    Anyone else?

    Here’s hoping though! XD

  8. So looking forward to today. I hope the discussion is mostly about what to expect in Season 6 (and I do hope that not every fan question is about Jon Snow).

    Saturday’s “Women who Kick-Ass” panel is just star-studded and should be sooooo exciting!

  10. i remember de cast for season 1, 2, 3 e 5 at comic-con. we had a cast announcement for season 4 at comic con??? i dont rebember, and i don find any video. i dont think we had, and im worried about today.

  12. Bergey,
    Hey there’s a chance the Hound is still alive! 😉 So on harma dogememe’s behalf: Clegane Bowl confirmed – GET HYPE!!

    Sorry, it’s friday home time here, the silliness is strong with this one 😀

  15. Call me a buzzkill if you will, but I REALLY doubt we’re going to get any kind of casting announcement today. As others have mentioned, ComicCon is earlier than normal this year, and it seems like D&D are behind schedule in comparison to previous years. I’m hoping to be wrong…but I’m not getting my hopes up either.

  17. Lulu’s Mum: Sorry, it’s friday home time here, the silliness is strong with this one

    Lucky you! It’s Friday work time everywhere in the USA, and ComicCon is onnnnnnn! 😀 It’s torture. Also, very little actual work getting done! 😉 Glued to Twitter, mostly!

  18. It would be hilarious if Kit showed up in the casting video, but that’s just a pipe dream on my part.

  19. I’m excited to see the panel, but I’m not expecting much to be honest. I don’t know what the executive producer or David Nutter can really add to the discussion. Nutter can discuss his two episodes, fine, but that can only take so long. And after that? Also I just saw two or three interviews in the last week with cast members who all stated they haven’t gotten the scripts for season 6 yet. So they have no idea what the story is for their or other characters. So I can’t see anyone other than maybe Van Houten who knows much about what season 6 has in store for them. So I guess they’ll talk about season 5 and field Jon Snow questions the whole time.

  20. Ace of Mace:
    Does anyone know if they will stream this panel live?

    Yesterday IGN was streaming panels so I would think they would do this one. I haven’t checked their web site yet though.

  21. Kay,

    Oooh it’s like time travel, except when I had to get up this morning you guys still had plenty of sleepy time ahead of you and I have to face monday morning before you do, but I get paid first too, so swings and roundabouts I guess. There’s at least one poster from New Zealand on here and they virtually lap some people >_< (confused thinking about time travel face)

  23. RBloodworth:
    Call me a buzzkill if you will, but I REALLY doubt we’re going to get any kind of casting announcement today.As others have mentioned, ComicCon is earlier than normal this year, and it seems like D&D are behind schedule in comparison to previous years.I’m hoping to be wrong…but I’m not getting my hopes up either.

    I agree. I seem to remember last year we heard rumblings about some castings leading up to Comic Con (Wasn’t Keisha Castle Hughes known before the official announcement?). This year, nothing. I think they haven’t locked people down yet (maybe still in negotiations with agents?), and this will be more just fan servicing, especially with D&D and GRRM absent.

  24. Dolorous Methuselah: Yesterday IGN was streaming panels so I would think they would do this one.I haven’t checked their web site yet though.

    I Googled “live streaming of Comic Con 2015” and got a ton of hits. I believe I read that IGN will be streaming live every day from 1-5 PDT. I am going to try around 2:00 today and see if I can pick up the GoT’s panel.

  26. For those that watch Conan, the big goofy red head will have the GOT cast on his show tonight.

  27. Last chance for the flat earthers to concede Sam Coleman will be cast as Dickon without consequence. After the announcement, those who failed to capitulate will be lined against a wall and splatted.

    I have a list.

  28. Lulu’s Mum,

    Cleganebowl location CONFIRMED!!! Deepwood Motte for sure. And Lady Stoneheart gets to challenge the winner at Old Wyk, at which point it will be revealed that she’s actually Daario, who is actually Benjen.

  30. It’ll be a pretty uneventful panel without some kind of tease of what’s coming in Season 6, whether it be casting announcements or otherwise.

    Then again, I’m not sure what the average time is between when casting begins and when they’ve actually locked someone in for a part. Sue posted about the casting for Euron, the Tarlys, etc. in late May, so that’s over a month now. I guess we’ll find out for sure later today.

  31. I’m not terribly optimistic, but hoping for some casting news. An announcement for Arthur Dayne is too much to hope for. But if it was announced that Wyman Manderly was cast it would tide me over for months. A Euron announcement would be nice too. But Manderly is what I really want.

    Without having much more book material left, there’s not much to look for really.

  32. JCDavis: I Googled “live streaming of Comic Con 2015″ and got a ton of hits.I believe I read that IGN will be streaming live every day from 1-5 PDT.I am going to try around 2:00 today and see if I can pick up the GoT’s panel.

    I pulled up their web site. It’s not the easiest to navigate but I don’t see any GoT stuff listed on their schedule to stream.

    http://www.ign.com/events/comic-con?schedule=true

  36. Last year the official casting video pretty much had everyone important in it, right? I remember people holding out for other castings (the way some are still pulling for

    Victarion

    despite the one casting call pretty much confirming

    Euron

    ), but nothing really materialized after the casting vid, right? So if that’s the case I would actually prefer it not be today…

  37. Darkstar,

    Well yeah, but Euron is Benjen, thus by the transitive property, if a=b and b=c, vis–à–vis, a posteriori, Cleganebowl @ Deepwood Motte has been confirmed.

    Kevin,

    Exactly!

  38. Harma Dogememe,
    I reckon they need to get some kind of audience participation going as well (those watching in the GoT universe itself as well as us show viewers). I’m thinking along the lines of call and response. Who’s the only person I’ve ever loved? Your sister! Edd fetch me a……Block! Who do we all hate? Olly! With guest appearances from everyone who’s been cut out/merged etc.

    A whole day’s entertainment for all the family, with stalls, side shows etc like a full blown festival. House Ramsay give us a flaying demo; Mord reminisces on how he unexpectedly came into money; anyone who’s been in a plot hole/leap of logic type situation on what the hell happened etc. They have the budget for this sort of thing now, make it happen D&D! 😀

    EDIT: House Ramsay, what the hell am I talking about? You know, that Bolton lot!

  39. After some of the moaning that’s gone on over the last few months this should be a good night.

    [Until the moaning over casting begins ;)]

  41. I don’t understand what time are those “PDT, EDT and CEST”…

    So, what time is this for Buenos Aires? (GMT-3)

    Please, for next time, is more easy to calculate the time if you put a GMT + or – how much hours.

    Thanks!

  46. I’m thinking the show will give Dickon a different name. Sounds too much like Rickon.

  48. Fedejru,

    Now see GMT confuses me. PST is Pacific Standard Time, which is Pacific Coast USA time (where ComicCon is happening). EST is Eastern Standard Time, which is East Coast USA time. CEST is Central European Summer Time

    Here is a link for you to figure out what time it will be in your time zone.

    http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/

  49. Harma Dogememe:
    Lulu’s Mum,

    Cleganebowl location CONFIRMED!!! Deepwood Motte for sure. And Lady Stoneheart gets to challenge the winner at Old Wyk, at which point it will be revealed that she’s actually Daario, who is actually Benjen……who is the waif, who is really Ja’qen h’ghar, who of course is Jon Snow aka faceless man.

    There – finished it for ya. 😉 Hope I didn’t stomp on your play ground, but it looked like fun to me.

  50. Do any Brits know where I can watch the live stream I’m useless and the misses is out

  53. Darkstar,

    I will die laughing if they reveal the legendary swordsman of casting leaks is actually Gerold Dayne and most of the new locations are Dornish! XD

    Imagine what some people’s rage would be! XD

  54. JCDavis,

    well yeah, I mean I guess I just figured that part was obvious!

    Lulu’s Mum: House Ramsay

    you might be accidentally on to something… with Fat Walda knocked up, maybe he rebels and starts an offshoot house… alters the sigil to a flayed sausage instead of a flayed man.

  56. Arthur:
    Will WotW provide a live stream link?

    I can’t seem to find one.

    It appears IGN won’t be streaming it. They are however going to stream fucking sharknado 3. *sigh*

    I can’t find anywhere else either.

  57. I actually have a bottle of champagne on ice saved if we see Darkstar cast.Low chances but you know how it is…no Darkstar,no party.

  59. I agree that D&D seem to be running behind this year. Wasn’t the last word from cast that they hadn’t yet received scripts? I’d be shocked–shocked!–if we got a cast video. I thought we only seem to get them in alternating years, anyway: there were none for Season 2 and none for Season 4, as I remember.

    There will be some sort of video extra, like a gag reel, but no cast video, in all likelihood. We don’t even have any casting confirmations yet, whereas we usually do by this time.

  60. Turncloak,

    Not necessarily. People shouldn’t jump to that conclusion. Remember the major disappointment when we didn’t get any in season 4? I think that if they have a large number of major characters, they’ll do a video. Euron and Randyl qualify, but who else? The Tarly family? Show Meribald? Could happen, or it won’t. We’ll see.

  61. Darquemode,

    Ha! That didn’t even occur to me. It would be awesome. I love to laugh at people’s rage so I’ll be right there with you.

  64. Last’s years Comic-Con GOT panel also occurred two weeks later (July 25th as opposed to July 10th this year), meaning they had more time to line everyone up. It’s probably too early even if they were going to do a video.

  65. Deesensfan,

    She might know about one scene in particular that Mel would be instrumental in, but she wouldn’t spill the beans on that at Comic Con.

    I really hope this panel isn’t a snoozefest like some of you think it’ll be. I’m still having withdrawals from Season 5. The GoT crew have to give me at least a taste or I’ll go crazy. D:

  67. Why are people saying that we didn’t get a casting video last year,didn’t they made one with all the main new actors in July when Comic Con was?Am I missing something?

  69. Robb Snow,

    I don’t know.. If they didn’t tell the rest of the cast.. Or no one got scripts.. Then I don’t think she would know. Her interviews were misleading and she cleared that up with her tweets dated June 28th.

  72. Well yes,it was two weeks later last year so the chances are a little bit lower to get one today.But it would be cool.Sure,I will find the lack of Darkstar,YG,JC etc disturbing as always but I’m really excited for Euron,Tarly and all the rest.Hope it’s today.

  74. They don’t mention that Gwen is 3 times over Woman Who Kicks Ass.
    In fact she could cover three films she is in.

  76. Darkstar,

    I think you misunderstood me. I was trying to tell everyone how to Google their local time equivalent. I wasn’t asking. 🙂

  77. Darkstar,

    Well…that bites. I was hoping to watch it live being in the Pacific NW. I don’t know if anyone answered the question “is there going to be a presence by WotW for the panel”. At least we could get pictures and tweets and such. *sigh*

  79. jentario:
    The panel is in about an hour, correct?

    I am in the same time zone as ComiCon and it is 12:50 here, panel I think was to start at 2pm. So a bit over an hour to go.

  80. Last year they did those little videos of the new cast members introducing themselves as their characters. Hopefully they give us something!

  82. Boojam:
    They don’t mention that Gwen is 3 times over Woman Who Kicks Ass.
    In fact she could cover three films she is in.

    How dare they typecast women! How dare those mysogynistic pigs! Damn cis scum!!

    In Holland, nobody is ever happy.. xD

    Edit, 87minutes and counting

  83. I have this dark feeling in my gut that we won’t get casting. But I really really hope we do.

  84. Ace of Mace:
    Does anyone know if they will stream this panel live?

    One article I saw said this wouldn’t be streamed live, but I’m following along with Twitter. Dame Pasty mentioned, in the other thread, that the hashtag would be #GoTSDCC.

  85. Does anyone else think the tower of Mesa Roldán could be the Children’s Tower at Moat Cailin?
    It even has the missing section of crenelations at the top, just like the CT

  86. I have a feeling, that we’ll get a deleted scene or something like that. Seems unlikely that they’d spoil season 6 with names, given what are the casting calls are like this year. All those “code names” and stuff.

  88. Harma Dogememe:
    Well yeah, but Euron is Benjen, thus by the transitive property, if a=b and b=c, vis–à–vis, a posteriori, Cleganebowl @ Deepwood Motte has been confirmed.

    Transitive properties and posteriori? Talk dirty to me!

  90. Gravemaster,

    They can’t keep it a secret forever. I mean, what are they gonna do, just not tell people anything until the season premieres? They need to get the hype train rolling, and the sooner the better.

  91. Lyanna_Targaryen:
    Last year they did those little videos of the new cast members introducing themselves as their characters. Hopefully they give us something!

    That would be fun. Maybe a glimpse of a certain eye-patched ironborn warrior holding up a dragon horn and uttering “I am the storm, my lord. The first storm, and the last…We will take Westeros!”

    [paraphrasing, of course]

    Too much to ask for? 🙂

  92. I have it on good authority from a close personal friend that everything is a bit behind schedule this year. He works in location scouting and management for a sub contracted company used by networks like HBO and E. And he says for the first time ever they are planning exterior shoots in the year the series will premiere. They have multiple shooting dates penciled in right now for January 2016. I have no knowledge at all if this means anything to delaying the premiere of season 6. All I know is what he knows and he has nothing to do with anything other than location scouting and management.

  93. Arthur:
    Will WotW provide a live stream link?

    I can’t seem to find one.

    I really don’t think there is one, but if anyone does find one, please, please, please share the love.

  95. I also have Twitter up for the GoTSDCC and there are already tons of pictures on my feed. I thought I could link it here…but the URL is just Twitter.com.

    Everyone looks so happy, they should be happy, they are in SAN DIEGO. Wish I was as well.

  96. Tereeza777:
    Special Comic-Con greeting from Andrew Scott, Ben Cumberbatch, and Mark Gatiss ~
    they misspelled “SPECTRE” –
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRsGzksXCWE

    I’d written a splurge about ‘spectre’ being the UK way of spelling the word Tereeza until I looked at the Youtube video and saw they had put “spekter”. They are ‘aving a larf I expect.

  98. Judging by those (Twitter?) pictures, Maise and Sophie REALLY seem to get along. 🙂

    It’s good to see them having such a good time.

  99. lou:
    I have it on good authority from a close personal friend that everything is a bit behind schedule this year. He works in location scouting and management for a sub contracted company used by networks like HBO and E. And he says for the first time ever they are planning exterior shoots in the year the series will premiere. They have multiple shooting dates penciled in right now for January 2016. I have no knowledge at all if this means anything to delaying the premiere of season 6. All I know is what he knows and he has nothing to do with anything other than location scouting and management.

    This would make sense storywise considering that we should be having a lot more winter scenes.

  101. Is it beginning???

    Anybody on the inside twitting bits and pieces? Should I follow them or just wait until they are done with the panel? Grrrrr… expectation is killing me!

  102. I really doubt we’ll get a casting video annoucment tonight, but damn I really hope so !

  103. Keeping my slightly drunk self up for this. I just hope the Jon questions are limited!! There’s so much more to find out about, imo.

  104. Simeon: This would make sense storywise considering that we should be having a lot more winter scenes.

    This. It should be expected they’ll try to push the last seasons forward (f.e. into May-July) to have more time for winter shooting

  106. allamaris,

    Their winter shoots, other than Iceland, have never depended on there being real snow, so I don’t think they’d bother now.

  108. That or just go to the live Tweeting at #gotsdcc and they are covering it all. I have to keep refreshing to keep up between my own feed and going directly to the Twitter account.

    EDITED……..Hello WotW, I see your Tweet inviting folks to join our discussion.

    Looks like it has started.

  110. The director of some of Game of Thrones’ biggest episodes recently met President Obama.
    And the leader of the free world had one question for him: Is Jon Snow really dead?
    “Three weeks ago, I was the in the company of the President of the United States,” acclaimed director David Nutter told EW at Comic-Con on Friday. “He turned to me, put his hand on my shoulder, and said, ‘You didn’t kill Jon Snow did you?’”
    It’s the question every fan wants to know, and apparently Obama is quite the fan, telling Nutter that season 3’s notorious Red Wedding episode is his favorite.
    So what did Nutter say?
    “I said, ‘Jon Snow is deader than dead,’” the director recalls. “I thought I was going to be sent to Guantanamo or something, but fortunately I’m here — but he’s dead.”
    Nutter added that Obama also complained, “You keep killing off my favorite characters.”

    Haha, the President’s words really do resonate!

  112. Who is going to miss Kit the most?

    “We couldn’t wait for him to be gone, to be honest.” “That hair…”

    Maisie. 😀

    Btw Mel is totally going to ressurect Jon. Carice knows. 😉

  114. They keep putting the same stuff up in the twitterfeed… Grr..

    I mean that picture of Sophie groping Maisie..

    Also, GoT twittered that someone said that they wanted Sam as king (Carice) and than somebody else twittered it was Natalie.. -.-

  115. harma dogememe,
    Mmmm….House Ramsay = sausages confirmed as weapon of choice at Cleganbowl. GET HYPE!! 😀

    Abyss,
    Love it, thank you! 😀

    Note to self: when posting a smart arse remark in a hurry make sure you don’t accidentally “your sister” yourself. Can’t blame D&D for that one, but fortunately no-one seems to have noticed *walks off whistling* nothing to see here, move along now

  116. What’s the usual wait time between a comic con panel and the full upload? Could it come out within the next 2 hours? Just trying to work out if I should bother staying up much longer.

  117. TorbofThrones,

    Thank you for that link!

    The very guarded comments about being close-mouthed regarding the upcoming season makes something that Kit Harington said in an interview just before Ep 10 aired really resonate. He was asked by tv host James Corden who was going to die. . His reply was:

    KH: Oh, 90 per cent of the cast die… (groans) I can’t tell you… There’s HBO snipers everywhere. It’s a brutal finale. It’s dark, its gonna be eventful. It’s going to be shocking. I can’t tell you who dies. I can tell you there’s death. I can’t tell you who it is. … it’s brutal.”

    I’m beginning to believe about the “HBO Snipers.” HBO must have been far more upset about the leaks than they showed, and now everyone is on lock-down, especially the cast.

  118. What a disappointment for those who bought tickets, travelled and slept outside in the queue for two nights! Would love to go but not worth that.

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