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Game of Thrones Gets Series Greenlight From HBO

March 2, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Maggie Van Ostrand
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Springtime with HBO is sounding better and better. HBO has given the greenlight to a first season debut (pilot plus nine eps) of Game of Thrones, the George R.R. Martin fantasy series that has generated huge online interest already. Each of the four (so far) books in Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire will form one complete season. Martin, who also wrote TV’s Beauty and the Beast, will write each episode as a cliffhanger.

The show interested Sean Bean, too. He’ll play Stark family patriarch Eddard, who becomes right-hand man to the king in the mythical land of Westeros.

The series shoots in Northern Ireland and other countries, and stars as Stark family members, in addition to Bean: Jennifer Ehle as Catelyn, Richard Madden as Robb, Sophie Turner as Sansa, Maisie Williams as Arya, Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran, amid a large, exciting cast which also includes Lena Headey, Mark Addy, Peter Dinklage, and Jamie Campbell Bower. A full cast list with photos can be found at the THR’s Live Feed.

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About the Author
Maggie Van Ostrand is ashamed to not be a geek, but she’s proud to have once attended a Star Trek convention where Bill Shatner spoke to her. He said “Hi. Are you anybody?” Maggie graduated from college so long ago, she can’t remember the name of it but thinks it was somewhere in New York. She majored in stuff that has nothing to do with anything she does today, except the classes she audited at the AFI. She knows little or nothing about comic book characters unless they’re drawn by Robert Crumb. She knows nothing of gaming outside of Vegas, and still thinks Moonlight was way better than True Blood. She is here because she reminds the publisher of his grandmother and he felt sorry for her. Her favorites are anything by Billy Wilder, Godfather I and II, Lawrence of Arabia, & Young Frankenstein. She writes political satire for Huffington Post, was head writer for movie trivia TV show; writes a column about Old West characters; was TV comedy ghostwriter; humor columnist for newspapers and online publications, and other boring stuff. Twitter: @magpie99 Website: www.maggievanostrand.com
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