Thrones cast heads to Belfast

With filming only days away now, it sounds like much of the cast is descending on Belfast as final preparations for shooting the first season of Game of Thrones commence. A report from the set indicates that Sean Bean is already there. Luke McEwan has tweeted that he is in Belfast. And this morning, Finn Jones tweeted from a plane, presumably on his way to Belfast International. It sounds like there is going to be a script read-through today. Based on the report that they are prepping and filming in three episodes blocks, I would guess this read-through will be for the first three episodes only.

Winter Is Coming: Well this certainly brings back some memories. Looking forward to next week and (hopefully) some interesting set reports!

UPDATE: Belfast resident silverjaime scouted out the Magheramorne quarry location today and came back with some photos of the Castle Black set under construction. You can clearly see what appears to be the winch elevator climbing up the face of the quarry.

UPDATE: Some more interesting tweets coming from Finn Jones and the other cast members. First, Jones tweets:

just seen a drawing of my tourney armor, it’s actually breathtaking, excited to wear the real thing!

Sophie Turner adds:

having sooooo much fun… good to be back :)

UPDATE: Another report from silverjaime, this one from the production office in Belfast.

Lots of comings and goings – a lot of swish cars and taxis pulling up and people getting out and some ( confusingly) getting back in 10 mins later. I don’t really know the actors to see but I recognised a few – Jamie Sives (looking gorgeous) Finn Jones, Rory McCann, Kristian Nairn ( I think – he was huge anyway), Josef Altin, Sophie Turner (very blonde and cute) and Derek Halligan with a big guitar case who went in and then came back out shortly after. Maybe it wasn’t his day. There were also about 4 girls all with dark hair but they were laughing and so on and I couldn’t see who was who. Everyone was carrying their stuff (scripts?) in boxes or M&S bags etc.

Winter Is Coming: If I could engage in some pure speculation for a moment. Everyone silverjaime listed are either in the tourney scene or the training at Castle Black (with the exception of Kristian, who may have actually been Conan). My guess is they are filming this stuff first. Castle Black stuff the first week of filming, tourney stuff the next week.

• Published on 07/21/2010 at 9:50 AM CDT
• Last updated on 10/03/2011 at 10:25 AM CDT