George R.R. Martin has spoken up about that jaw-dropping Game of Thrones Easter egg within the newest episode of Westworld, and, along with clarifying among the particulars relating to his involvement within the show’s nod to Drogon’s fate, the creator has additionally shared some key intel about his personal long-lost Thrones cameo, together with a photograph of him in costume from the set!
On his blog, Martin wrote that whereas Westworld showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have indicated that it was his concept to do the mini-crossover, which featured the beloved Sport of Thrones dragon as he was about to be hacked up and bought off by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, he can solely take partial credit score for it.
“I had no concept this specific second was coming till I caught it on HBO… however again throughout Westworld‘s season one, I did recommend to Jonah that, seeing as how the unique Westworld movie featured a Medieval World, the TV model may simply have a Westeros World,” he wrote. “I by no means needed a full crossover, by no means thought that Westworld‘s hosts ought to journey in Westeros World as they’ve in Samurai World and Struggle World… however a short scene or two may have been enjoyable, and would have been consistent with the Delos idea. And, hey, I even instructed that they may carry again actors from GOT, characters we had killed. The hosts die virtually weekly, in any case.”
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Martin added that if he had been in Los Angeles throughout the episode’s taping, he may’ve even participated within the bit — in any case, he has finished a number of cameos previously. In actual fact, Martin wrote an inventory of a few of his on-screen appearances previous, together with TV’s Beauty and the Beast and a few more moderen display time on Z Nation and Sharknado 3, and he went on to elucidate why audiences by no means bought to see him on-screen in Sport of Thrones. As many followers are already conscious, Martin did movie a cameo scene for Sport of Thrones‘ unique, as-yet-unearthed pilot, however after a number of key forged members have been changed and almost all the episode was re-shot, the footage of him was left to the enhancing room flooring.
As Martin defined in his newest weblog entry, he would have appeared “as a visitor at Dany’s wedding ceremony to Khal Drogo. They gave me an unlimited hat and actually massive balls, which could have been some type of commentary.” If that picture description is troublesome to image, to not fear. Martin additionally determined to present the world with some photograph proof of his wild look.
That is … fairly a dressing up. Sadly for all of us, the rationale we’re simply now seeing that is that though some bits of reel from the unique shoot have been recycled for the pilot which did air, that scene specifically initially featured actress Tamzin Merchant as Daenerys Targaryen, and Emilia Clarke ultimately stepped into that function. So, it needed to be re-done, and A Track of Ice and Fireplace lovers in every single place have been disadvantaged of the enjoyment of seeing their favourite creator dressed up like this.
In different information, though Martin was notably unavailable to shoot an appearance in Sport of Thrones‘ otherwise very cameo-happy last season, as he continued work on The Winds of Winter, he additionally wrote that he did try to safe a cameo in among the different seasons, past the scrapped pilot.
“I needed to be a severed head on the partitions of the Pink Hold subsequent to Ned Stark (and David & Dan, ideally), however our price range was not so sturdy first season, and people severed heads are damned costly. I additionally campaigned to die horribly on the Pink Marriage ceremony, which appeared solely honest since I used to be chargeable for it, but it surely was felt that my presence in that highly effective, wrenching, bloody scene might need taken the viewers out of the second. Honest sufficient. And never mistaken,” he wrote. “One factor led to a different and I by no means did seem in a cameo in GOT, however that is cool. I am a author, not an actor… and even an additional. And standing round in costume for all these hours in Morocco whereas we filmed Dany & Drogo’s nuptials gave me a helluva backache.”
Here is hoping he will get to swimsuit up in some Home Targaryen gear for House of the Dragon.
Sport of Thrones is offered to stream on HBO.