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

[hippoiathanatoi.livejournal.com]

It's just TV. He's directing the pilot, he might direct two or three more episodes, but it's really unlikely he's going to be directing every single episode. Far as I know, there's not a TV show on television that has a single director.

For the pilot, I think he could be a very good choice, given that it's low on drama and high on squeezing in as much character interaction and detail as possible.

The Station Agent is a lovely, quiet little film, BTW. Haven't seen the other. But I did see he received an Independent Spirit Award for direction for The Visitor, so maybe there's some good qualities there.

[harrytheheir.livejournal.com]

It's just TV. He's directing the pilot, he might direct two or three more episodes, but it's really unlikely he's going to be directing every single episode. Far as I know, there's not a TV show on television that has a single director.

I think multi-camera sitcoms do. I think every episode of How I Met Your Mother was directed by Pamela Fryman.

[hippoiathanatoi.livejournal.com]

Did not know that. Interesting. (Also, amusingly, Linda just wrapped up subtitling an episode of "How I Met..." The one featuring Canadian Sex Acts (http://www.canadiansexacts.org))

Now I'll have to see if there are any dramatic series which have a single director over a season.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

That was a good episode.

[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.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

PS Fix the board.

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