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Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is A Game of Thrones. The show premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and concluded on May 19 ...
Stannis becomes a challenger for the Iron Throne after his nephew Joffrey Baratheon becomes king, becoming one of five in the War of Five Kings. Advised by the Red Priestess Lady Melisandre (follower of the Lord of Light) and Davos Seaworth, Stannis is based at Dragonstone, an offshore island in the Narrow Sea, where he lives with his daughter ...
Game of Thrones was nominated for 15 Emmy Awards for season 3. [177] Two days after the fourth season premiered in April 2014, HBO renewed Game of Thrones for a fifth and sixth season. [ 178 ] Season 5 premiered on April 12, 2015, and set a Guinness World Records for winning the highest number of Emmy Awards for a series in a single season and ...
Game of Thrones features a large ensemble cast, including established actors such as Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley, Lena Headey, Iain Glen, and Peter Dinklage. Newer actors were cast as the younger generation of characters, such as Emilia Clarke , Kit Harington , Sophie Turner , and Maisie Williams .
HBO ordered a second season of Game of Thrones on April 19, 2011, two days after the series premiere. [78] The second season obtained a 15% increase in budget in order to be able to stage the war's most important battle, [ 79 ] the Battle of the Blackwater, in episode nine which was written by George R. R. Martin.
A "dragon-forged chair" molded from a throne featured in Game of Thrones has sold for $1.49 million. The throne sold after a "nearly six-minute-long back-and-forth between bidders," the auction ...
In the series, the Iron Throne is both a physical seat of office as well as a metonym for the monarchy of Westeros. Martin establishes in A Game of Thrones (1996) that after seizing control of six of the Seven Kingdoms, Targaryen ruler Aegon the Conqueror had made a throne for himself from the swords of his vanquished enemies, fused by dragonfire.
An Iron Throne from 'Game of Thrones' sells at auction, along with hundreds of other items from the epic HBO series. The entire haul fetches $21 million.