Game of Thrones (HBO pilot) casting news

[yagathai]

Peter Dinklage being cast as Tyrion is, of course, excellent news. The director... I'm going to withhold judgement until I see what he does with the material. It might be gorgeous, or it might be an Ang-Lee-doing-The-Hulk-type disaster.

Comments

[harrytheheir.livejournal.com]

That might happen, but I would be surprised. From Ron Moore's commentaries for BSG, it sounds like while one director is filming episode A, another needs to be prepping episode B. Multi-camera sitcoms are different, I think, because they take less time to film: all four cameras are running at the same time, so an episode of Cheers or something would be filmed on a single day.

[hippoiathanatoi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was my understanding with regards to drama series. Fair point about the difference in how sitcoms are produced.