Location shooting of the fifth season of Game of Thrones headed to another area of Northern Ireland this week: the coastal town of Bangor, not far from Belfast.
Sightings have been popping up on Twitter, pointing toward filming occurring out in the Walled Garden at Bangor Castle, located close to the Leisure Centre Complex.
Though the gardens are still beautiful in winter, by all accounts, they wouldn’t appear the same as in summer and so it’s an interesting choice of places to film in December, assuming the sightings are accurate. Walled gardens sound like something we’d encounter in King’s Landing; is autumn coming to the capital city?
RT: <protected> Looks like #GameOfThrones are filming at the walled gardens in Bangor this morning.
— Shezza T (@shezza_t) December 5, 2014
Game of thrones is filming down in Bangor at the old leisure centre. — Paul (@Mr_Ferrett) December 7, 2014
#GameOfThrones has arrived in #Bangor!! #GoT #LeisureCentre
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It’s not known at this time which actors are filming at the site, if any. Several cast members have been in the Belfast area the past week, including Kit Harington, Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Carice van Houten, Kerry Ingram, Alfie Allen, Brian Fortune and presumably more.
Jon Snow, Arya And Sansa Stark came to rave in Belfast last night. #gameofthrones Ett foto publicerat av @anniemacdj
SO TONIGHT I MET ALFIE ALLEN AND KIT HARRINGTON AND AFLIE CALLED ME BABE AND ASKED ME WHAT MY NAME WAS AND I BOUGHT THEM BOTH A MAGNERS AND — ~werz dah hymen?! ☹ (@ShelleyMarshyxD) December 5, 2014
Just posted about Bangor on the other thread but thankfully y’all beat me to it with a lot more links than I had!
I wonder what they could be filming here specifically…
I thought they’d finished filming. Wuh. Anyway, er, Nodor?
Water Gardens? Doubtful. Maybe something in Pentos or King’s Landing itself.
I dunno how many freaking gardens the Red Keep has at this point, though. More gardens than guards.
And are there any lemon trees?
Interesting…I searched the #bangorcastle on instagram and this is the most recent picture and it’s from 2 months ago. Imagine what that place looks like now.
http://instagram.com/p/t-0IYQSZ3T/
Renly’s Peach,
Dorne filming is finished as of the week before last.
Morgan,
Good old winter. Great find.
Carice is perfect.
My bet is some Vale castle on Littlefinger, Sansa and Robin’s tour of the Vale.
Or some new part of Winterfell… Or White Harbour… (though I think that if we see Wyman Manderly at all it will be directly at Winterfell, no need for WH).
They didn’t shoot any garden scenes in Croatia this year so it could be in fact King’s Landing. Autumn may coming.
Mine is the Furry,
I concur a thousandfold.
Arkash,
That’s what I would’ve thought, except that Sophie finished shooting the other day.
Oh yeah, forgot that !
It could always be Deepwood Motte who knows ! ^^
I’d like it if it ends up being King’s Landing in autumn !
Or some new part of Winterfell.
Gatehouse Ami,
That was my first thought as well, but just as you I really don’t think that’s what it is.
Pretty sure Dolorous Edd was coming out of Forbidden Planet (Belfast) as I was going in, last Thursday afternoon – by the time I’d got my brain into gear he’d disappeared amidst the throng of Ann St.
Obviously Highgarden. Diana Rigg vs. Mads Mikkelsen faceoff.
As of season 2 Westeros was officially in Autumn (the white owl shown by Pycelle at the small council was the very first scene of season 2).
Winter is coming to Kings Landing
The only place that reminds me of gardens in Westeros is Dorne, but it probably isn’t. Regardless – we enjoyed our stay in Bangor and northern Wales several years ago. Pity that wasn’t open at the time we would have gone! It will be fun to finally see it on the show!
2nd choice… Snow falls on King’s Landing.
Turncloak,
Yes, we definitely need to see some ominous signs of winter throughout Westeros during this upcoming season.
There really has been a dearth of filming information for what seems like an eternitym so I’m grateful for this little post. It is hardly the most riveting bit of filming, but it is something, and with only a week left now, it really is going to be the ‘waiting for a trailer’ season, so this is good.
Now that they have finished filming I hope more of the small casting details come out. They have definitelu tightened up in that regard,
King’s Landing for sure. Winter is coming baby
or not
The most obvious answer is a garden in KL on the cusp of fall and winter. But it did cross my mind that it would be a great place for
ETA: Sorry for putting the spoiler code in wrong, hope it’s fixed.
Mhm, very interesting place… Are there any pics of it in December?
A short interview about season 5 with Sophie Turner (and bonus Charles Dance)
http://www.heyuguys.com/british-independent-film-awards-interviews/
LauraR,
Sophie mentions she shot a traumatic sortof scene…hmm. Maybe whatever happens in the Sansa chapter that was supposed to be in ADWD but was shifted to TWOW? What’s so exciting is that there’s no way to know what she’s referring to!
CD’s reaction to Cumberbatch now doing a Marvel movie is pretty funny.
Thank for the link!
So, a very dramatic (Edited: traumatic instead of dramatic) and horrible scene for Sansa next season… okaaay… God, I really wonder about her storyline next year, looking forward to it!
It was a white raven.
Greenjones,
Did she say “dramatic” or “traumatic”?
Short article about Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.
It says there wasn’t an audition, they just asked him about the role.
http://www.vulture.com/2014/12/game-of-thrones-casting.html
Messy Justin Massey,
Traumatic, I believe.
Greenjones,
Just yet watched it again, and I think you’re right; so, traumatic and horrible, well well…
Yeah, I loved that.
The “traumatic scene” sounds pretty intriguing and it´s definitely a good thing we don’t know anything about it
Are you sure? In the books I believe it was a raven but in the show I think they used an owl.
Edit: nope your right, it was a raven. Heres the link. I blame Harry Potter for making me say Owl :p
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120423061500/gameofthrones/images/5/5f/WhiteRaven.jpg
It’s funny how Sophie Turner towers over the male interviewer…
Interesting. Probably just Kings Landing or the Vale but gets the imagination whirring.
Here’s the quote verbatim:
“There was one scene that I did do which is super, super traumatic and I love doing those scenes, and it was just really kind of horrible for everyone to be on set and watch, but those kind of scenes are what, like, feed me. That’s why I started acting, to do all the crappy, horrible stuff.”
Is Sophie into BDSM ?
R,
That’s interesting. I guess we WILL be spoiled on Sansa’s TWOW story somewhat, from that chapter that was pushed from ADWD into TWOW, which was described in pretty much the same terms.
Yep, we’re moving things along for Sansa’s story and will be in TWOW territory…
I wonder if the traumatic scene has anything to do with Tyrion’s observation that “Sansa’s not a killer…not yet.” Foreshadowing anyone?!?
I just hope it isn’t her getting ‘physical’ with Baelish…yuck.
I think they must be filming scenes of KL in Winter. Either that or someplace in the North, with the Reach as a distant outsider.
If the writer’s take her into TWoW territory, that is all fine and good, but if they have her play the sexuality game with Littlefinger, it could be an epic eye-roll. Sophie can deliver but the character, playing LF’s “game”, come on now.
Given what she says about Arya’s storyline near the end of the clip,
Greenjones,
How do you know? Did she say that? THANKS!!
Deirdre,
I know because of this twitter interaction from a few days ago now.
https://twitter.com/cmccormick89/status/540958210052874240
I’m hoping that this is the gardens in White Harbour that Davos was in before he meets Manderly- if he’s in the show (hoping they’ve cast Robbie Coltrane!! ), however it’s more likely to be an exterior shot of Kings Landing with the winter setting in.
As for Sansa, she really is a blank canvas this season, next to Arya, she is my favorite character so I’m really looking forward to seeing what D&D have come up with!
I know a lot of people are worried that this season will be a mess, as for me, I’ve never been more excited for a season than I am for this one, with books 4&5 streamlined to fit the show and a bit of Winds thrown in ( I don’t care if the show spoils the books! ) I can’t wait for the season to begin!!
And what was filler in S5?
You should reread Books 4 and 5.
Brienne killed Stannis. What she had done in Book 4? Nothing of importance.
In term of plot, everything that Jaime done in Book 4 was acomplished with one scene between lord Frey and Roose.
1. Freys took Riverrun
2. Blackfish escaped
3. Edmure capuured
They ended Riverlands plot efectivly with RW, acomplishing everything GRRM has done, but avoiding draging and filler, they put Riverland to rest until S6/TWOW where something important is actualy going to happen there.
With less filer characters and less non imortant things, they acomplished everything from Dany’s plot in ADWd and more in one season, with Jorah, Tyrion and Varys there.
So yes, plot moving.
But now, season 4 and 5 became that tendence for plotholes created by the writers
Not true.
Not tru either.
What?! Did you watch S5?
Im not sure you know what you want to say.
Probably, maybe, if…
LSH is just lame plot twist aded for sock value. She didn’t do anything important. Only thing she acomplished is to take away tragedy of RW, to make it more cheap and unrealistic.
Frey can be defetaded by Blackfish, Arya, Sansa or any other real character.