SciFiNow magazine за февраль о деталях второго сезона
All of the major characters have two sets of each costume and piece of armour/weaponry. This is because they sometimes needed to fly actors from Dubrovnik back to Belfast to film at the Paint Hall and then rush them back again, and clearing costumes and weapons through customs is a nightmare.
There is a set of 'bone armour' featuring in S2 which will make 'readers of the books clap their hands in delight'.
Cersei has a set of ornamental and elegant, 'Valkyrie-like' armour.
HBO mocked up a section of King's Landing wall for the Blackwater. The wall is 20 metres away from a stretch of water, allowing skiffs full of soldiers to disembark under heavy arrow, ballistae and boiling oil fire from the walls.
The Blackwater battle will feature a very clever aquatic battering ram. Basically it's on a boat with rib-like supports sticking out the top. When the boat beaches, the soldiers unpack the battering ram, spin the boat upside down, reconnect the ram and then run it up to the gates with the hull of the boat acting as cover from missile fire. It's basically a medieval version of the landing craft from D-Day (my take, not the magazine's).
Season 2 is the 'season of battles, especially episode nine'. The crew built another ship at the Linen Mill Studio in Bainbridge. This ship is 140 feet long, 35 feet tall and has a 3oo-foot greenscreen surrounding it. The ship has a modular deck, which they can use as the cargo scow that takes Theon home but they they can lift on a whole new top deck to turn it into Stannis's flagship, including the addition of a 12-foot-tall stag's head with antlers as a figurehead.
The Eyrie set is still standing in the Paint Hall, despite not featuring at all for Season 2. It's too intricate to dismantle and store and they will need it for future seasons, so it's been left up.
A second, 'purpose-built' studio is being built next to the Paint Hall to help accomodate the needs of the series going into future seasons. The reporter repeats the rumour that Seasons 3 and 4 will be greenlighted and shot back-to-back to cover A STORM OF SWORDS.
