Game of Thrones readies for Spain and returns to Winterfell 

HBO has arrived in Spain to start their preparations, getting ready for

season 7 by hiring local crews before shooting begins. The company has put out notices in the Basque Country towns of

Bermeo and Zumaia, and also in Trujillo and Malpartida, both found in Cáceres province. All the aforementioned places are confirmed shooting  locations for the new season.

reports that they’re expecting more than 500 production crew members involved in the Cáceres filming, and that it will likely begin in November. They say the local work may last until December, so we’re beginning to get an idea of how long filming may take in the area.

Up north in Bermeo, it’s expected that filming will only last “two or three days,” which makes sense, since

has opted for only for one shooting location there: the uniquely beautiful San Juan de Gaztelugatxe.

As Modexpor International noted in August, their extras casting in the northern Basque area will only include men. They’ll publish more specifics in October, closer to casting and filming time.

But for now we can speculate with that bit. A casting call for only men points in a few directions: a horde of Dothraki warriors, Dany’s Unsullied army, or some other character who has a group of soldiers with them. Bermeo and Zumaia are not locations suitable for battles, though, so I suspect the extras will wind up being Unsullied or Dothraki accompanying Daenerys.

Back up to Northern Ireland for one last piece of locations news: activity is resuming in the area of Moneyglass.

Driving by Moneyglass and seeing Winterfell preparing to construct/maintain the set for S7 is a welcome breath of fresh air.

The small village is home to the Winterfell set every year, and it looks like crews are getting it ready for filming once again. We’ll keep our eyes peeled for Winterfell-centered cast members in the coming weeks!

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Here’s to hoping we finally see Howland Reed show up at Winterfell.

Only man could also mean night watch or citadel

So exciting! I hope we get more news from the Winterfell set.

Sophie Turner’s interview with an Italian website. I used Google translate to read what she says. No idea how accurate this is, but this is what she says about S7 according to Google Translate:

“I can not say much … as you know will be only seven episodes, but reading the script, I realized that it was the most beautiful script from the beginning of the series. It will be the best season of all . It will make the acquaintance of many people. There will be people who you would not expect to see. Many will meet and will narrow new alliances. A lot of nodes will be home to roost. For Sansa in particular will be a very seasonal, very, very interesting. Please do not make me say any more. “

I found the part about there being people we would not expect to see and new alliances interesting.

Somebody who speaks Italian may be able to provide a better translation.

Can you please address this Angela Lansbury thing that keeps popping up on Reddit and elsewhere. Today it was in The Independent via some German paper, and before that some other would be reputable site (I think it might have been The Daily Mail or something like that) was saying Dianna Rigg pushed for Lansbury to land said role and would be in a couple episodes.

This is awesome news if true, but I’d love to hear it from some more hardcore source, like you guys or EW or something. Any sources saying anything? If its BS, it would be helpful if you quashed it too, so it stops popping up. I don’t want to get my hopes up, but I’d really love to know for sure.

We’ve said repeatedly that it’s a false rumor. It was denied months ago. Unfortunately, we can’t control when German tabloids decide to kickstart rumors again.

My guess is the BwB + The Hound will end up in Winterfell by the end of the season. They’ll probably also find out about Dany.

As long as the episodes are 60+ mins long, I’ll be happy. Hopefully they won’t rush things. I know D&D get a lot of flak, but I trust them.

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