Now that Game of Thrones has finished, all thoughts are turning to the first to be developed prequel TV series. We know almost nothing about this show other than the fact A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin calls it The Long Night and its production name is Bloodmoon. The show is primarily filming in Belfast, Northern Ireland as Game of Thrones did prior, but like that original show they will have to have some location shooting as well, and thanks to a report by local Italian site Ilmessaggero, we now know where at least one location will be.
According to the outlet, the Bloodmoon production will be moving this month to Italy to spend time filming in the Italian coast at Gaeta’s Grotta del Turco. HNEntertainment has also been able to confirm that these shoots will shoot there sometime in mid-July and that filming in Belfast will end on July 10th.
What we know so far is that this series will be set around five thousand years prior to the events of Game of Thrones and feature the first Long Night, the winter that first saw the rise of the White Walkers. We already have seen how the White Walkers were created, but other than that we really didn’t get much of them at all in Game of Thrones, which was a disappointment to many fans. Could they have purposefully left much of their story to this prequel series instead? It would make sense that this Long Night doesn’t begin in the pilot episode and that’s possibly why they are filming in Italy in the summertime. It would show the world before the longest winter ever begins in earnest.
So far we have no real clue as to when we could see this hit TV screens, HBO has only commissioned the pilot for now and after that they will make a decision whether to greenlight a full season of the show. But it is expected that if the pilot goes well and HBO give the go-ahead that we could see this hit screens sometime in 2022 or even 2021, but certainly not any earlier.
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Several actors already signed up for the pilot include Naomi Watts, Josh Whitehouse, Naomi Ackie, Jamie Campbell Bower, Toby Regbo, Georgie Henley, Alex Sharp, Ivanno Jeremiah, Denise Gough, and Sheila Atim. However, the actors in a pilot don’t always work out, so there could be changes made before this ever goes to a full series, if it ever does. We can look at the pilot of Game of Thrones, which didn’t have Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen to begin with as evidence of this.
It may be some time before we find out anything solid or see any footage because this pilot episode will be viewed internally and we still don’t have access to that famously bad pilot of Game of Thrones.
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