Icelandic casting begins

The casting for the Icelandic portion of filming has now begun. And the first roles cast… horses! According to this blog post, 15 Icelandic horses have been recruited to appear in season two of Game of Thrones.

That’s not all though, we have also received a report that 13 members of the Viking reenactement group Rimmugýgur have been cast to play Rattleshirt’s band of wildlings. And if they are casting Rattleshirt’s band then certainly they are casting a Rattleshirt.

Lastly, as reported on by Westeros and first discovered by thremnir, this August article from Icelandic site Visir indicates that actor Gudmundur Ingi Þorvaldsson has twice auditioned for Game of Thrones. Both times he has been told by the producers that they really like him, but want to wait for the right role. As Ran speculates, might he be a possible Mance Rayder candidate? Interestingly, Þorvaldsson notes in the article that he auditioned for seasons 3 and 4 in October. Which not only means the producers are looking ahead to future seasons, but multiple future seasons.

Winter Is Coming: We have heard rumblings that HBO has mulled the possibility of greenlighting seasons 3 and 4 together and that the production will then film them back-to-back in a year-long block of filming. This is a very unconfirmed report, and I don’t think anything has been officially decided yet, but this article does seem to support the notion. Now gives us Rattleshirt!

• Published on 11/10/2011 at 8:40 AM CDT
• Last updated on 11/10/2011 at 8:40 AM CDT