daimonion Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 From not a blog:"HBO Pilot: D&D have cast one more role and have an offer out to a wonderful actor on another. Sorry, no clues, I'm clued out for the present. One of the roles that was yet to be filled has been written out of the pilot. No huge thing, he wasn't in that part of the book in any case... though we did have a world-class thespian lined up to play the part. Character and actor will both be back if we go to series."Varys? And who is that world class thespian actor that they had/have? Could it possibly be....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 My guess is that it's Grand Maester Pycelle (there's a scene in the script featuring him in King's Landing with Cersei, as Jon Arryn dies), and my hope is that Roy Dotrice is the actor in question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leofric Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 From not a blog:"HBO Pilot: D&D have cast one more role and have an offer out to a wonderful actor on another. Sorry, no clues, I'm clued out for the present. One of the roles that was yet to be filled has been written out of the pilot. No huge thing, he wasn't in that part of the book in any case... though we did have a world-class thespian lined up to play the part. Character and actor will both be back if we go to series."Varys? And who is that world class thespian actor that they had/have? Could it possibly be....?You think Jon "Master Thespian" Lovitz as Varys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 My guess is that it's Grand Maester Pycelle (there's a scene in the script featuring him in King's Landing with Cersei, as Jon Arryn dies), and my hope is that Roy Dotrice is the actor in question. :agree: I think Dotrice was mooted for either Pycelle or Aemon (or maybe Walder Frey?) and I believe GRRM has said in the past it was a nice idea to get Dotrice involved (although I believe that was a general question about a possible adaptation many years ago, not the current round of casting) following his work on the audio books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daimonion Posted September 10, 2009 Author Share Posted September 10, 2009 My guess is that it's Grand Maester Pycelle (there's a scene in the script featuring him in King's Landing with Cersei, as Jon Arryn dies), and my hope is that Roy Dotrice is the actor in question.Aww.. I thought of Varys when it was actually Pycelle that was in the Jon arryns deathbed scene. Oh, well.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Aww.. I thought of Varys when it was actually Pycelle that was in the Jon arryns deathbed scene. Oh, well....It's someone who isn't in that part of the book, and Varys is in that bit ;) Pycelle isn't.In fact, I think it narrows it down to just Pycelle and that's it. We know they're still casting for Drogo right now, so that means it isn't him. The only other possibility is Jon Arryn, and his corpse will probably be played by an extra, not exactly requiring high-profile casting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padraig Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Huh. Wonder why they dropped the scene? Looked like an interesting way to introduce Cersei. I wonder will they find another way rather than wait for her arrival in Winterfell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
About Yea High Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 You think Jon "Master Thespian" Lovitz as Varys?Yeahhhh. That's the ticket! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrddin Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Huh. Wonder why they dropped the scene? Looked like an interesting way to introduce Cersei. I wonder will they find another way rather than wait for her arrival in Winterfell.Maybe they don't want to make her "the bad guy" so fast. That scene tipped the hat pretty quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiled leather Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Yeahhhh. That's the ticket!and every feast scene could have a subway $5 footlong. EaT FResHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Meereense Knot Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I know he said no clues, but any chance the final "The bird is cruel" quote mean anything other than as a reference to Heinlein in the previous paragraph? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padraig Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Maybe they don't want to make her "the bad guy" so fast. That scene tipped the hat pretty quick.True. That's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I know he said no clues, but any chance the final "The bird is cruel" quote mean anything other than as a reference to Heinlein in the previous paragraph?I was thinking the same, but had no clue where to begin with it.I guess googling and seeing that it's from The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag would have been a start :PSo, yeah, it refers to that novella, which George mentions in the previous paragraph, but it seems to me that he might be giving a clue after all.He doesn't need to mention The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, as he gives another example. So why give it at all?OK, that doesn't mean it has to be a clue (otherwise anything could be a clue), but to then reinforce the reference with an important line from that work?I haven't read the story, and I don't want to be spoiled on it, so figuring out anything about it is probably beyond me at this moment :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyman Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 He's slyly telling us that the three-eyed crow has been cast, and it's being played by Ryan Phillippe, who got his big break in Cruel Intentions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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