How can they have non-speaking extras for certain characters and then replace them with other actors in subsequent episodes? With the Kingsguard knights I expect it'd be hard to notice if they just ride through the screen in armor or so, but if the children are shown at all, it'd get tricky...
One is that they are cast as normal, but simply don't have any lines in the pilot. To be honest, Tommen and Myrcella don't have much to do in the whole series of books, and when they do have some more difficult scenes to do that'll be several years down the line, when either the actors will have gotten better or recasting will be necessary anyway.
The other is that they are planning to refilm the pilot as Episode 1 when production of the series proper gets underway, and will cast those roles 'properly' then, just using extras for the pilot. This also allows them to recast any roles from the pilot they feel aren't working (ROME and TRUE BLOOD apparently took this approach, whilst DEADWOOD just used the pilot as Episode 1), since the pilot will never be seen by the audience.
This message last edited by Werthead on 17/10/2009 at 07:12:17 PM
Casting completed for GAME OF THRONES with the addition of a STARGATE ATLANTIS castmember
- 17/10/2009 05:31:55 PM
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How does that work, exactly?
- 17/10/2009 05:57:14 PM
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Several possibilities.
- 17/10/2009 06:18:59 PM
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Doesn't Benjen look decades too young?
- 17/10/2009 10:57:47 PM
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The actor's the right age.
- 17/10/2009 11:49:08 PM
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Huh
- 18/10/2009 04:34:32 PM
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That would make him older than Ned 
- 18/10/2009 06:38:22 PM
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The image Martin has on his Livejournal now is already more like it 
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- 22/10/2009 08:58:04 AM
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- 22/10/2009 08:58:04 AM
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reading thru the whole cast gave me a massive geek-gasm. Well, I gotta clean up now
- 17/10/2009 11:04:01 PM
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