The first season aired on HBO on 17 April-19 June 2011, garnering critical acclaim and steadily rising ratings. HBO later confirmed that the first season had a budget of $60 million. The season wrapped filming on 15 December. Several actors from the pilot were recast, requiring the re-filming of most of the first episode. Filming of Season 1 began on 23 July, with Malta replacing Morocco for overseas filming.
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HBO officially greenlit the series on 2 March 2010. The pilot episode was filmed in Northern Ireland and Morocco in October and November 2009. Casting announcements were made throughout 2009, with Peter Dinklage the first actor formally announced for the series. In October 2008 HBO exercised its option to buy the rights to the series and ordered a pilot episode a few weeks later. However, this was delayed by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
HBO agreed to option the project in 2007 and active development of a pilot script began. He agreed with them that the series was a good fit for the cable company HBO, which Martin was already a big fan of. Martin was impressed with their enthusiasm and that they had already worked out the resolutions to several key mysteries in the books. Martin and spent several hours discussing the project. Instead, they began working on an adaptation for television.
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They initially considered a movie adaption, but realized this would mean losing most of the plot and characters from the books. Weiss to develop the project with him for a screen adaptation. Initially sceptical of the fantasy genre, Benioff became a big fan of the books and invited his friend D.B. From left to right Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Peter Dinklage.ĭavid Benioff was sent a collection of the first four novels in the series ( A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows) by George R.R. Production history Main article: Game of Thrones production timelineĪ HBO promotional image of Sean Bean as Lord Eddard Stark.Īn Entertainment Weekly promotional photo of some of the Season 2 cast.
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