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Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister in “Game of Thrones.”
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Despite how eager fans are to know what happens in the final season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” precious little is known. According to one of the show’s directors, that’s thanks in large part to the “Gestapo”-like security on set.
David Nutter, who directed three of the final six episodes of the final season and worked on several episodes in the early years of the show before suffering a back injury that kept him away from Season 6 and 7, talked to The Huffington Post about the security conditions of the final shoots.
“Well, sometimes there were paparazzi in amazing places ― on construction cranes and all kinds of crazy places, to try to get a point of view of things. They were all over, everywhere, trying to get in on what was happening. But it was definitely a situation where there was no paper on the set, [that] type of thing,” he said. “[The production team] wanted to make sure nobody knew what was happening, and they went to the nth degree, like they do on the show in general. They basically take it to the point where it’s like the Gestapo. It’s tough to get answers.”
Director David Nutter speaks onstage at the “Game of Thrones” panel during Comic-Con International 2015 at the San Diego Convention Center on July 10, 2015.
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Nutter even confessed that he had to direct fake scenes that were never meant to go into the show and were purely for the purposes of throwing off would-be leakers.
As a result of the secrecy, Nutter wasn’t able to provide many details about what to expect from the finale of the show, which has captivated fans since its premiere in 2011. However, that doesn’t mean he had no thoughts on the ending, which he knows the details of.
“All I know is that David and Dan spent a lot of time to tell the story in a proper fashion, and the audience will be completely satisfied. Not everybody will be satisfied, but I feel the audience will be satisfied with the direction the series goes. It lives up to all the building it’s coming to, I promise you that,” he said.
“Game of Thrones” returns for its final season in April 2019.
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