NI harbor a possible season two location
Ballintoy Harbour in Northern Ireland is wanted by the production company as a season two filming location, according to the Ballymoney Times. The deal is pending local approval. Prep work is set to begin in late July with filming at that location scheduled for three days in mid-August.
Ballintoy Harbour will be transformed into a medieval setting for the fantasy adventure series which was described by ‘Game of Thrones’ Location Manager Robert Boake as “possibly the biggest tv series in the world at the moment and certainly Europe it is by a mile”.
The current series of the show is on tv screens at the moment on Sky Atlantic and has been filmed at locations throughout Northern Ireland leading to a major boost to the film industry.
Moyle Council has an interest in Ballintoy Harbour and Mr Boake attended a meeting of the Council in Ballycastle to ask them for co-operation in filming there.
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The series makers want to restrict access to the public at Ballintoy Harbour for a time during the summer and are offering several thousand pounds of cash to the local community as a token of their appreciation.
Moyle Council has agreed in princple to the harbour being used for ‘Game of Thrones’ subject to locals agreeing.
The article also mentions that HBO wants to film in Larrybane quarry and the Mussendun/Downhill area.
Winter Is Coming: That looks like the Iron Islands to me. Or possibly Dragonstone. Blackwater Bay has also been mentioned but I don’t think three days is long enough to film that scene. Considering it took them two weeks four days to film the decidedly smaller-scale tourney.
UPDATE: In other season two news, George R. R. Martin blogs that he is writing up the first draft of his episode 9 script now, entitled “Blackwater.”
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