Before winter comes to Westeros, Game of Throneswill come to IMAX. Two episodes of the hit HBO show, as well as an exclusive trailer for its forthcoming fifth season, will play on IMAX theaters across the country between January 23rd and 29th.
This is the first time a television series will be screened in IMAX theaters, according to a press release from HBO, and the network has digitally remastered the final two episodes of Season Four The Watchers on the Wall and finale The Children for the occasion. The new Season Five trailerwas also created exclusively for IMAX.
The Game of Thrones event will take place at over 150 theaters across the country. Completetheater and ticket information will be available on the IMAX websitein the coming days.
Game of Thrones is still a few months away from its official return; Season Five is slated to premiere this spring, though an official date has yet to be announced. Only a few details about the upcoming season have leaked, most significantly that itwill not feature Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead) and his helpers Meera Reed (Ellie Kendrick) and Hodor (Kristian Nairn).After Nairn accidentally let the newssliplast September, GoT show runner David Benioff later explainedthat their absence is crucial to constructing the narrative scope of the show.
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Even though were making changes to the books and adapting as necessary, were trying to keep the various storylines the same as the books and trying to keep them roughly [chronologically] parallel, Benioffsaid. And last year, we caught up to the end of Brans storyline [in George R.R. Martins most recent A Song of Ice and Fire novel, A Dance with Dragons]. So if we pushed him forward this season, then hes way ahead of where the other characters are.
Makingup for Bran, Hodor and Meeras absence, though, are aslew of new characters, including Alexander Siddig (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) asDoran Martell, the ruler of Dorne and the older brother of the Red Viper, Oberyn Martell, who met a gruesome demise in Season Four. The extended Martell family also features Toby Sebastian as Dorans son and heir to Dorne, Trystane, and Nell Tiger Free as his wife-to-be, Myrcella Baratheon, officially the daughter of Cersei Lannister and King Robert Baratheon (though her father is really Jaime Lannister).