If you thought Jon Snow (Kit Harington) slugging it out with Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) was the peak of the Game of Thrones action, just wait for season seven.
Whispered teases about a major upcoming battle scene are littered throughout a recent Time Magazine cover story, which chronicles the minutiae involved in bringing Game of Thrones to life. In writing about a day on the HBO series' Belfast set, author Daniel D'Addario describes "a battle whose sheer scope, even before being cut together with the show's typical brio, dazzled me." While the specifics of the soldiers on the battlefield and even the battlefield itself remain under wraps, D'Addario offers this promise: "Thrones has been promising this clash all along, and when the time comes, the internet will melt."
The article stops short of confirming any other details, though it's hard not to start connecting some dots. For instance, so much of the feature focuses on Emilia Clarke's work as Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, and the fact that she spent 16 days filming on top of a mechanical rig meant to represent one of her increasingly ferocious dragons. As D'Addario puts it: "The battle for Westeros may be won or lost on the back of a lime green mechanical bull."
"We knew it would be a mechanical bull," co-showrunner Dan Weiss tells Time about Dany's dragons' increasing size. "We didn't know it would be 40 feet in the air and six degrees of motion with cameras that swirl."
At the very least, then, it sounds as if the Mother of Dragons and at least one of her fire-breathing associates are involved in the battle that "Thrones has been promising … all along."
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