Well, duh. And couldn't they just do us all a favour and renew it "until there are no more books to film?" Would that be so difficult? EW has the good news:
"You haven’t seen anything yet: Game of Thrones has been officially renewed for a third season by HBO. The network ordered another round of the fantasy hit, which recently debuted its second season to record ratings, then followed up with a nearly identical performance this week. The third season is expected to be more or less based on the first half of George R.R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords — the third novel of his “Song of Ice and Fire” series of fantasy best-sellers. Long a fan favorite of the book series, Swords has several dramatic twists and confrontations (so … save the date!). Given the book’s length (the paperback edition is 1,216 pages) and action-packed content, producers plan to break up the novel into two seasons. HBO is not confirming if season three is another 10-episode order."
To celebrate, let us, once more, enjoy 10 minutes of Tyrion slapping the snot out of Joffrey.
Just three more weeks! And in the meantime there's this, and more, in EW:
"Perhaps no bit of casting news was met with greater surprise than Lenny Kravitz taking on the role of Cinna, hero Katniss Everdeen’s deeply cool and compassionate stylist. Kravitz was working on his album, living out of a trailer in the Bahamas and oblivious to the Hunger Games phenomenon, when Ross first approached him to offer him the part. The director had been moved by the musician’s gentle grace in Precious and was further intrigued by the fact that Kravitz already felt a nurturing bond with star Jennifer Lawrence, who had become close friends with his daughter Zoe during the filming of X-Men: First Class. “I love that girl,” says Kravitz. “The minute I met her she became a part of the family.” It took one sleepless night of reading a downloaded version of The Hunger Games in his trailer for Kravitz to commit. But Woody Harrelson, who initially turned down the role of Katniss and Peeta’s sodden wreck of a mentor Haymitch, was a harder sell. “Listen, I’m nuts,” he explains. “It was just a stupid thing where I hadn’t read the books yet. I didn’t see that there was enough for me to do in the script. But then Gary called me back and said ‘You got to do this, I don’t have a second choice for the role.’ And of course flattery always gets the best of me so I read the books and really saw the depths of this guy. Holy s—, I would have been bummed to miss this."
Oooooh ... either someone took this and has been fired or JJ Abrams uncharacteristically allowed this to "leak." Either way: Squeee. Also, you may want to lower the volume - the voiceover is incredibly irritating. Like, punch-him-in-the-throat irritating. Via Coming Soon.
Here are more of those delicious set photos of Benedict Cumberbatch and Zachary Quinto (aka QCumber - no I didn't come up with that; I only wish I did) from Star Trek: Not a Single Word about Khan and we Don't Know if there will be Klingons. (Coming Soon).
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