Ilustraciones de KARAKTER para Game of Thrones

Crea Copos de Nieve de papel de "Juego de Tronos"

Si tu también eres un fan de Juego de Tronos con una mano firme y gran habilidad con el X-Acto, cutter y/o tijeras, tenemos un proyecto papercraft para ti.

Se han creado patrones para realizar copos de nieve con las temáticas de las casa del universo de Juego de tronos. Los patrones se ofrecen sin costo alguno a través de  la artista Krystal Higgins y son muy cool. Algunos de ellos son muy complejos, sobre todo el copo de nieve Lannister. La escama Baratheon también se ve muy difícil, con sus cuernos de ciervo intrincados. El copo de nieve Targaryen parece que está listo para lanzar fuego.

Puedes descargar los patrones y las instrucciones aquí.

Entrevista a George R. R. Martin en Australian TV

Vientos de Invierno Barristan (1)

The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister

Tyrion Lannister "el Gnomo" es uno de los personajes que mejor caen a la gente tanto en los libros de "Canción de hielo y fuego" como en la serie para la televisión Juego de tronos. Por eso no es de extrañar que veamos publicado un libro dedicado exclusivamente a él, pero no una biografía o un libro con fotografías y características varias como su origen de nacimiento, su enorme cantidad de dinero gracias a pertenecer a su familia o detalles diversos de sus refinados gustos, no. The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister es únicamente un libro de compilaciones de los consejos, las réplicas y las sentencias más jocosas que hemos oído por boca de Tyrion, por lo que vendrá muy bien para recordar todos esos momentos que nos vienen a la cabeza y que hacen de los libros de "Canción de hielo y fuego" un gran ejemplo en cuanto a diálogos de calidad se refiere, porque George R. R. Martin es un gran artífice de diatribas entre personajes.

La fecha de salida del libro se ha adelantado y será lanzado por Bantam en Estados Unidos el 29 de octubre, mientras que en Reino Unido llegará a las librerías el 7 de noviembre por mediación de Harper Voyager. En ambos casos la edición del libro en tapa dura, goza de dos portadas diferentes y va a ser publicado por las editoriales que publican las novelas de "Canción de hielo y fuego" en sus respectivos países, también en formato electrónico. Además, el libro está ilustrado en ambas ediciones por los lápices de Jonty Clark. Su precio: 16 dólares la edición estadounidense, y 9,99 libras la inglesa.

 

Dangerous Women, Antología editada por George R.R. Martin y Gardner Dozois

Hoy se pone a la venta Dangerous Women, una antología editada por George R.R. Martin y Gardner Dozois que incluye relatos de autores como Joe Abercombie, Jim Butcher, Brandon Sanderson, Lev Grossman y el propio George R.R. Martin.  

El relato de Abercrombie se sitúa en el mundo de su novela Red Country, el de Butcher tiene por protagonista a Harry Dresden y el de Grossman es del universo de The Magicians (Los Magos). Pero sin duda la mejor noticia para los fans de Martin es que su historia (una novela corta, en realidad) forma parte de Canción de Hielo y Fuego y, de hecho, explicará los orígenes de la guerra civil de los Targaryen (también conocida como la Danza de los dragones). Si a esto le unimos que se incluyen cuentos de escritores tan interesantes como Nancy Kress, Pat Cadigan y Brandon Sanderson la antología se había convertido, sin duda, en una de las esperadas de los ultimos meses. 

El relato de Abercombie puede ser leído online de forma gratuita en la página web de Tor, editorial que publica esta antología.

George R R Martin on Machiavellian Plots in Game of Thrones

 

Game of Thrones author George RR Martin talks to Alan Yentob about the Machiavellian characters in his fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire.

As well as drawing upon the traditions of fantasy literature, Martin explains how the "grittiness" of real English and Scottish history influenced his world of Westeros. He says he was also inspired by the plotting and intrigue of Machiavelli's era during the Italian renaissance.

He discusses differences in characterisation between his books and HBO's Game of Thrones television series.

Martin is speaking to BBC One's imagine... to mark the 500th anniversary of Niccolò Machiavelli's book The Prince

 

Natalie Dormer nos Cuenta los SPOILERs de la Cuarta Temporada

Infografía: Los Muertos de Game of Thrones (SPOILERS!!!)

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

George R. R. Martin Webchat Transcript

George RR Martin was already a successful writer, but his career exploded when he began the series called A Song Of Ice And Fire in the 1990s. It went stratospheric when the story was adapted by HBO as Game OF Thrones, one of the most talked-about shows of last year. As the show's second season gets underway on Sky Atlantic, we invited the author in to answer your questions on what's happened so far, what's left to write, and what his favourite sandwich is. Surprisingly, what follows is relatively spoiler-free, except where marked.

francesemma says: Are the direwolves what you imagined?
Well, this season they are. In the first season we were using dogs, a breed called the Northern Inuit that was specially bred to look like wolves, but they were also bred to not have the ferocity of wolves, and that actually caused problems when we were filming because the dogs were too nice. We wanted them to bare their teeth and growl, and instead they would lick the actors' faces and wag their tails. So we had to lose them from a number on scenes they were in. In this season, we're using real wolves, in very controlled conditions, plus CG and CG enhanced wolves, and we're getting something much closer to what I imagined in the books in terms of size and ferocity and the danger of the wolves.

portnoy says: Is there an update on when The Winds Of Winter will be published? The books have always been worth the wait but would be great to know.
When it's done!

Bryan89 says: How much planning do you do when you're writing a book? Do you have a plan for each chapter, or do you write with a general outline of where the story is headed?
Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.

Jim_Roper says: With regard to the singer Marillion, are you a fan of the band or is this just coincidence?
It's just a coincidence; I had never heard of the band until the book came out and people pointed it out to me. Perhaps I had heard of them and the name stuck in the back of my mind when I was looking for a name for the singer, but my taste in music runs primarily to ‘50s and ‘60s rock, the kind of music I talk about in my novel The Armaggeddon Rag. There are homages in the books, tips of the hat to other writers I admire, and occasionally entertainers or icons or pop culture figures just for the hell of it. But Marillion is not one of them. The Three Stooges are in there though, if you can find them!

Jen Louise says: Have you got a favourite House?
Probably the Starks. After all, it all began with the Starks.

Mikey says: I have a question that's been bothering me for six books now - what's with hands? How come characters keep getting hand injuries?
Well, actually hand injuries were very common in the Middle Ages. When you fight with swords and axes and do a lot of hand labour, you get a lot of hand injuries. In fact, even leaving out the swords and axes you get a lot of hand injuries. my father was a longshoreman, a stevedore, and I know they would always get hand injuries. They would wear protective gloves, but they would still get injuries. There are other touches of realism; my characters who fight in repeated battles in these books tend to get scars. They lose noses and ears and become disfigured, and that's a consequence of those battles. That's where the icon of the Scarred Warrior comes from. Every time you go into a fight you risk emerging a little less pretty than when you went in.

Risinger says: Is there a work a of fiction with which you would compare A Song Of Fire And Ice?
Well, not exactly. I mean, obviously I stand upon the shoulder of giants; there are many great fantasists that have gone before me, and many great writers of historical fiction, and I built A Song Of Ice And Fire upon those foundations. I was inspired by these great writers. But then again, I wanted to tell my own story, a story that was unique and that only I can tell. One work I will mention because I know that Harper Collins is coming out again in the UK, a series of novels by Maurice Druon called The Accursed Kings, written in France, seven books long and six have been translated into English but they're hard to find. They have a similar feel to Ice And Fire, although not fantasy: they concern the curse of the Templars, the fall of the Capetians, the start of the Hundred Year War. And they're coming out in English in new editions.

What's your favourite type of cheese?
My favourite type of cheese? Well, I like cheese too much perhaps! I'm very fond of cheddar, the sharper the better. You say "mature" here, right? I also like soft runny French cheeses like camembert and brie, and stilton, and a Swiss cheese called Gjetost.

Qhorinmate says: I have read that Westeros is "sort of based on medieval Britain". How true is that and what would be the most fascinating thing about this set of islands that has attracted you to its history?
Westeros is probably closer to medieval Britain than anything else. Geographically, it occupies a somewhat similar position off a larger contintent, although Westeros is considerably larger and is, in fact, a continent itself, more like South America. And although I've drawn on many parts of history, the War of the Roses is probably the one my story is closest to.

MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT! Bensio says: You’ve mentioned that the Red Wedding is the most difficult thing you've ever written. How much of an emotional attachment do you have with the characters you've created and how do you see the opportunities of creating new characters? Do you dread their fate?
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel. So when you share that bond with someone, even a fictional someone, it does become difficult to kill them. So that's why the Red Wedding was so painful - and there are other painful things too. So it is difficult to kill off a viewpoint character in particular. But on the other hand, I love creating new characters, as you can tell by the number that I create.

Sometimes when I create a new character, even a very minor character, I have all these ideas about them, and it's almost as if I could write a whole story about them. Even a character that comes in for a short scene, I want him to be as fleshed as he can be, a real human being, even if it's just one character. We're all the hero of our own story. So you might have a scene where two lords are drinking a cup of wine and a servant comes in to pour the wine, and it may be that all our attention is on the lord, but the serving man is a person too, and from his point-of-view the story is, "How long will these guys be talking? My feet hurt. I'm worried about my daughter; is she fooling around with the stable boy?" I may not put that in, but sometimes all it takes is a single word or a single line for a minor character, and suddenly he emerges as a real person before fading back into the background.

emmie87 says: I loved one of your earlier works, Fevre Dream. Am I right in thinking you haven't written another vampire novel since? What was the inspiration behind writing that one and have you considered revisiting the genre?
You are right; fevre Dream is my only vampire novel. I do have some ideas for a sequel to that book, which I've had for decades. It's a question of finding the time to write it, and whether I will. I don't know if I ever will. I had always wanted to write something about vampires, going all the way back to the beginning of my career. For some reason, when I thought about vampires, having read Dracula and all that, it always seemed to me that it had to be a period piece, it couldn't be modern day. But again I didn't want to do something that had been done before; I wanted it to be something original. So it began to gel for me in the late ‘70s when I took a job teaching college in Dubuque, Iowa. Dubuque is an old river town on the Upper Mississippi, when the steamboats used to ply their trade, and I got interested in the history of the place and suddenly it seemed to gel for me. Vampires and steamboats: there was a certain dark romanticism to both, and as far as I knew, no one else had ever done vampires on teamboats, and Fevre Dream was the result.

ElliotSquash says: If you could recommend any one fantasy novel or series, other than your own, and other than Lord Of The Rings, what would it be?
Jack Vance, The Dying Earth. It's not a series in the same sense that mine is. it's four books, largely made up of short stories, and share only a setting with each other, and a character in the case of the middle two; the wonderfully amoral and unscrupulous Kugel the Clever, whose schemes and plots always come back to bite him in the butt. But Vance is the great stylist of sci fi and fantasy, no one writes like him, and The Dying Earth is his finest work. With my friend, I edited a tribute anthology a couple of years ago, when writers wrote stories set in the world of The Dying Earth, including myself, Neil Gaiman, Melissa Shepherd, and on and on...

hamburglar says: When something I have read has been adapted to the screen my visualisations of the characters change having actually seen a representation of them visually. I was just wondering if, having had the characters placed on the screen, the image of them in your head has changed at all, or if, having been with them for so many years you have a very concrete idea of what they look like in your head?
The latter! I know the phenomenon that you're talking about and it does affect me when watching adaptations of other books by other writers. For example, I recently read The Hunger Games and saw the movie and I think if I go back and read that book now I will see those actors; but it doesn't happen with my own work. I've been living with these characters since 1991 in some cases; their images are fixed very strongly in my head, and it would be very difficult to replace them with our actors, good as they are. Also, I've seen dozens of other versions of these characters in the comic books, the card game, the book covers. These are characters that change over and over again, so there are a wealth of characterisations to choose from.

rhysbane says: you've probably been asked this before but which character is the most "fun" for you to write?
Tyrion!

Mafalda Correia says: What are your favorite authors and books, and which authors influenced you (in terms of prose, characters, everything you can remember)?
Well, I've already named several in this chat. Jack Vance, JRR Tolkien, Maurice Druon... I think the authors who influence you most are probably the authors that you read and love when you're young, and in my case those would include Robert A Heinlein, HP Lovecraft, Robert E Howard, Fritz Leiber. In historical fiction, Thomas B Costaine, Frank Yerby...I love Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, but really I could go on listing names for an hour. There are a lot of great writers out there in all genres that I enjoy and appreciate.

Matty B says: Would you ever consider making a cameo in the TV show? If so, what sort of role would you play?
Actually, I made a cameo in the original pilot, which was filmed in Morocco. I was a Pentoshi nobleman, and one of the guests at Dany's wedding to Khal Drogo. however, subsequently we recast the part of Dany, so the entire Morocco wedding sequence was cut, and my brilliant cameo was left on the cutting room floor. I also had investigated the idea of being a head on a spike, and David and Dan were going to put my severed head on a spike at one point, but then they got the quote for what that would cost. Those severed heads are expensive and our budget is tight! So unless I provide my own I don't get to be a severed head! But one of my fans who does that sort of thing has offered me the chance to make one next time I go out to LA. How could I resist? I could have my own severed head and carry it around in a bowling bag.

Jonny Holloway says: From Dreamsongs, it seems you started your writing career by writing short stories and getting them published in magazines. Do you think this is still a viable way for an aspiring writer to start their career?
Yes, definitely. In fact it's still the advice I give to all aspiring writers. Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series. Short stories have their own discipline, but you can try different things as you are finding your own voice, and hopefully you can sell a few and make a name for yourself before writing that first novel.

Gorillotaur says: Do you regret splitting A Feast For Crows and A Dance With Dragons by geography instead of chronology?
I regret the necessity to split the books, but if I had to split them, then I think geography was preferable to chronology for a variety of reasons.

Del says: How do you feel about the changes from the books that the Game of Thrones TV series makes?
I like the fact that David (Benioff) and Dan (Weiss) are doing a faithful adaptation so when the scenes are the scenes from the books, I like those. And I like almost all of the new scenes, not from the books, that David and Dan and the other writers have added. The only thing that I miss is the scenes that are left out, scenes from the books that are not included in the TV show that I wish they would have included. As I watch a show I'm always thinking, "Oh, this is coming next" and then that scene isn't there. But I understand the necessity for that. We have ten hours and that's always we have. You cannot put every line of dialogue, every incident, in the TV show. You have to cut to the chase. I do rather wish we had more than 10 hours. Not a lot more: 12 hours per season would be ideal. Many other HBO shows are 12 hours per season. If we had had those extra two hours, we could have included some of those small, character scenes that would have helped develop the characters more and flesh them out, develop their depth and contradiction and be a little more subtle. But we don't have 12 hours, we have ten. And given that I think the television show is extraordinary.

AJamesDarkly says: I was interested in knowing which film you’d consider to be your favourite and what film or kind of films inspire your writing, if at all?
Well, I gave a list of my top ten sci-fi films and top ten fantasy films of all time for the Daily Beast, like a year ago. Those lists might still be up on their website with my explanations. But I believe I named Peter Jackson's LotR trilogy as the best fantasy film, and Forbidden Planet as the best science-fiction film. If you want to widen the parametres to include non-genre films, then I have many favourites including some classics like Casablanca and Citizen Kane; some perhaps more idiosyncratic choice like The Hudsucker Proxy, which is my favourite Coen brothers film.

jenifun says: And have you ever met anyone that has learned Dothraki? Tyroshi? You know, like some people learn Klingon...
David Peterson, the man who invented the language for HBO, certainly knows Dothraki. I now consult him when I want to invent a new Dothraki word. He's prepared a dictionary and a lexicon. It's amazing; it added so much to the show to have them speak Dothraki with subtitles rather than just English. In 2010, I visited the Jenolon Caves in Australia, and in some of the caves they have self-guided tours where you pick up a headset and get descriptions of what you're looking at. Since this is a big tourist destination they offer these in many languages. One of which is Klingon. I was startled when I saw that - I do wonder how many people choose to take the Klingon tour. But that has now become my ambition, to have the Dothraki language added to that, so we have equality with the damn Klingons.

dtb47 says: Ice And Fire and really looking forward to the next instalment... but how are you going to finish it in just two books?
Two BIG books. 1500 manuscript pages each - that's 3000 pages. I think I have a good shot. And you know, if I really get pressed, I've already established that red comet. I can just have it hit Westeros and wipe out all life.

Bensio says: I’ve heard that you were a fan of HBO's Rome, which character, if any, were translated into A Song Of Ice And Fire in some way or was just your favourite character of the TV series?
Titus Pullo! Who could not love Titus Pullo?

thefield says: What's your favourite sandwich?
Probably a classic Philadelphia cheese steak, as made only in Philadelphia; accept no substitutes that claim to be Philadelphia cheese steaks but come from outside Philadelphia. They're not the same.

The secret is the cheese. You cannot put good cheese on a Philadelphia cheese steak. People in other cities try to put on mozzarella or brie or something. But they're making a fundamental mistake; the secret is Cheez Whiz, applied to the steak and onions, and gives it that really sleazy three-in-the-morning taste.

Jack Gleeson se Retirará de la Actuación tras 'Game Of Thrones'

Jack Gleeson es un joven actor, el muchacho apenas tiene 21 años y pensábamos que tenía un gran futuro, incluso lo nombramos como posible Robin en la cinta de Batman VS Superman. Él interpreta a Rey Joffrey en la aclamadísima serie Game of Thrones.

Lástima que piensa retirarse de la actuación para siempre. ¿La razón? Se ha vuelto demasiado famoso y él solo actuaba por hobby. Esto dijo:"Esto de la actuación solo era un hobby para mi, luego empecé a hacer esta serie y tal vez la realidad empezó a ser demasiado real para mi. El estilo de vida, la fama de ser un actor en una serie de este calibre no es algo que yo quiera o busque."

El muchacho dijo que en cuanto termine su participación en Game of Thrones, él dejará la actuación a un lado por siempre y se dedicará a hacer actos de caridad. Eso dijo, al menos.

Lady Corazón de Piedra

Ommegang ya Prepara la Tercera Cerveza de Juego de Tronos

La nueva cerveza estará inspirada en la casa Targaryen y tendrá por nombre "Fire and Blood Red Ale", y se unirá a las anteriores ediciones "Iron Throne Blonde Ale" y "Take the black Stout" a lo largo del próximo año 2014. Por el momento se desconocen más detalles sobre el sabor y el tipo de cerveza que será esta "Fire and Blood Red Ale", pero ya se ha podido ver parte del trabajo artístico que se ha realizado para sus etiquetas, en las que se pueden osbservar a los tres dragones de Daenerys: Rhaegal, Vyserion y Drogon. 

Ommegang y HBO están haciendo que su acuerdo sea muy fructífero y la compañía cervecera está realmente encantada, ya que su primera cerveza basada en Juego de Tronos, la "Iron Throne Blonde Ale" se convertido en su cerveza de edición limitada de venta más rápida.

Sabiendo esto, la futura cerveza "Fire and Blood Red Ale" tiene el potencial para desbancarla, ya que los dragones tiran mucho y su aparición en las etiquetas hace que esta nueva cerveza sea muy atractiva para todos los coleccionistas fanáticos de Juego de Tronos.

Fuente: www.juegodetronosenlossietereinos.com

Flashmob de 'Juego de Tronos' en la calle Bretón

Se publica Portales de George R.R. Martin y Stefano Martino

A principios de los noventa George R.R. Martin escribió el tratamiento de una serie de ciencia ficción llamada Doorways. En el 1992 se rodó un episodio piloto que ninguna cadena aceptó, quedando el proyecto en el limbo. En el 2010 la editorial IDW lanzó una adaptación al cómic del guión original de Martin (con dibujo de Stefano Martino). Ahora Aleta publica Portales, tomo que recopila los cuatro números de la edición original estadounidense. Pinta interesante.

Natalie Dormer Posa Para la Revista Esquire

La encargada de interpretar a Margaery Tyrell está de moda y próximamente aparecerá junto a Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbendery Javier Bardem en 'The Counselor'. Su personaje volverá a ser clave en la nueva entrega de la serie de HBO.

Natalie Dormer, la encargada de interpretar a la bella Margaery Tyrell en Juego de Tronos, ha posado de lo más sexy para la edición de noviembre 2013 de la famosa revista Esquire. Y es que la joven está de moda. Además de encarnar uno de los papeles femeninos más importantes de la adaptación televisiva de George R.R. Martin, la actriz ha participado en la nueva película de Ron Howard Rush y proximamente compartirá cartel con Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbendery Javier Bardem en The Counselor, la nueva película de Ridley Scott que llegará a las pantallas españolas el próximo 29 de noviembre. Asimismo, Dormer se ha convertido en uno de los últimos fichajes de la saga Los Juegos del Hambre e interpretará a Cressida en Sinsajo: Parte 1 y Sinsajo: Parte 2.

La belleza y atractivo de la actriz de Juego de Tronos salta a la vista y, según parece, cautiva tanto delante como detrás de las cámaras con su travieso sentido del humor. Su atractivo físico va en sintonía con los personajes que suele interpretar, aunque lo cierto es que la intérprete está tratando de dejar a un lado su papel de seductorapara apostar por otros de más complejidad: "Tuve una pequeña conversación conmigo misma. Me dije 'tengo que dejar de coger estos papeles donde sólo soy el polluelo que se tira a los brazos del protagonista'. No desprecio para nada ese rol, pero es algo que ya he hecho".

Puedes ver al increíbles fotos realizadas por el fotógrafo Simon Emmet a continuación. ¡Toda una belleza!

George R.R. Martin pide a los Fans que no le Presionen

El escritor de 'Canción de hielo y fuego' es consciente de que 'Juego de Tronos' se acerca cada vez más rápido al ritmo de las novelas. Actualmente trabaja sobre 'Vientos de invierno', el sexto libro de la saga.

Paciencia. Eso es lo que George R.R. Martin pide a los fans de Canción de Hielo y Fuego respecto a la publicación delsexto libro de la famosa saga, Vientos de invierno. Con la exitosa serie de HBO acercándose con pasos de gigante al ritmo de la obra y con el precedente de los cinco años de espera entre Festin de cuervos y Danza de dragones, los nervios entre los seguidores de la saga se van haciendo notables. Y no sólo de los fans, sino que el presidente de HBO Michael Lombardo tampoco se ha cortado a la hora de lanzar un mensaje medio en broma medio en serio al escritor: "Que se ponga las pilas escribiendo".

Sin embargo, estos mensajes no son precisamente alentadores para el escritor estadounidense, que ha confesado ser "un escritor lento" y sentirse presionado en una entrevista en profundidad concedida a 'The Sydney Morning Herald'. "Es fantástico que tanta gente esté ansiosa por el próximo libro y ciertamente es esta gente la que paga mis facturas y me permite tener una casa en frente de mi otra casa. Pero, al mismo tiempo, a veces desearía que parasen de presionarme con ello. Estará hecho cuando esté hecho. Estoy trabajando en ello. No sé qué más puedo decir: Soy un escritor lento, siempre he sido un escritor lento y estos libros son enormes".

No obstante, Martin es consciente del peligro de la velocidad a la que se acerca Juego de Tronos y, precisamente porque planea dos novelas más -Vientos de invierto y Sueño de primavera- no se muestra preocupado: "Según la serie está más y más cerca, necesito ir más y más rápido. Les he contado [a David Benioff y D.B. Weiss] algo sobre a dónde me dirijo, así que creo que saben el destino final, pero no permitiré que me pillen". Asimismo, tampoco tiene del todo claro que la saga vaya a estar formada por siete libros: "Creo que habré terminado en siete libros, pero ya he estado equivocado respecto a eso con anterioridad".

'Juego de Tronos': Yuri Kolokolnikov será el Magnar de Thenn

El actor ruso será el encargado de interpretar al líder salvaje y no Joseph Gatt ('Star Trek: En la oscuridad') como había sido anunciado con anterioridad.

Aunque el rodaje de la cuarta temporada de Juego de Tronos está a punto de llegar a su fin en las distintas localizaciones (Irlanda, Islandia y Croacia), siguen saliendo a la luz nuevos nombres que pasan a engrosar la larga lista de fichajes de los nuevos episodios. El último de ellos ha sido el del actor ruso Yuri Kolokolnikov, que se meterá en la piel del líder salvaje Magnar de Thenn a pesar de que otro fichaje había sido anuciado anteriormente para ese mismo papel.

El pasado mes de agosto se confirmaba la presencia de Joseph Gatt (Star Trek: En la oscuridad, Thor, Banshee) como el elegido para meterse en la piel de Styr, el cabecilla de un grupo de salvajes conocidos como Thennitas. Sin embargo, el anuncio oficial de HBO para el personaje ha sido diferente: el personaje creado por George R.R. en sus novelas será interpretado por Yuri Kolokolnikov, un actor que, a pesar de su juventud, ha trabajado en numerosas películas en Rusia. No obstante, Juego de Tronos será su primer trabajo de habla inglesa.

George R.R. Martin in Australia at Supanova Pop Culture Expo

George R.R. Martin has told fan fiction writers to get their own stories.

The author, whose books have been turned into the incredibly popular Game of Thrones series, has arrived in Brisbane ahead of this weekend's Supanova pop culture expo.

Bayonne, New Jersey, was anything but a wonderland during George R.R. Martin's childhood. The Martins lived in federal housing for low-income families, they owned little, not even a car, and the boy's life was spent mostly between 1st Street (the family home) and 5th Street (his school). Life was pretty much contained in those few blocks on this urban peninsula, he says, although sometimes he'd catch a bus to a movie theatre in 25th Street.

It was an escape.

I spend all day in Westeros and King's Landing. The real world almost seems to fade away. 

From their house, he also moved beyond reality by watching container ships arriving through the Kill Van Kull deepwater channel, which looks across to Staten Island. Manhattan – another world entirely, far more glamorous – was just up the river, but the ships Martin studied flew colourful flags and came from far-off places that might have been other planets.

Nuevos Personajes de Juego de Tronos

La nueva entrega de la adaptación televisiva de la obra de George R.R. Martin no arrancará en HBO hasta primavera de 2014, pero ya podemos presentarte a un montón de nuevos fichajes que se han unido a sus filas en esta nueva etapa. Algunos de los actores sustituyen a otros que interpretaron a su personaje con anterioridad. ¿Quieres conocerlos? ¡Aquí están todos!

Oberyn Martell

Pedro Pascal es Oberyn Martell.

Sobre el personaje: Apodado como la "Víbora Roja", Oberyn Martell es un intrépido y astuto príncipe de Dorne que llegará a Desembarco del Rey con una única idea en la cabeza: Vengar la muerte de su hermana Elia, brutalmente asesinada por el vasallo de los Lannister Gregor Clegane durante la rebelión de Robert Baratheon.

Mace Tyrell

Roger Ashton-Griffiths es Mace Tyrell.

Sobre el personaje: Señor de Altojardín y padre de Loras (Finn Jones) y Margaery (Natalie Dormer), Mace Tyrell es un hombre recio y robusto, proveedor de una de las familias más poderosas de Poniente.

Magnar de Thenn (va a ser que no...)

Joseph Gatt es Magnar de Thenn.

Sobre el personaje: También conocido en la obra de George R.R. Martin como Styr, Magnar de Thenn es el lider de los Thenn, una tribu de salvajes que vive al norte de Más allá del Muro .

Yohn Royce

Rupert Vansittart es Lord Yohn Royce.

Sobre el personaje: Más conocido como Yohn Bronze por el material del que está hecha su armadura, es es el cabeza de familia de la Casa Royce y banderizo de la Casa Arryn, siempre fiel a Lady Lysa (Kate Dickie).

Tycho Nestoris

Mark Gatiss es Tycho Nestoris.

Sobre el personaje: Representante del Banco de Hierro de Braavos, Tycho Nestoris es descrito como un hombre flaco y de barba muy, muy fina. Trabaja para el banco más rico y poderoso de las Ciudades libres, legendario en Poniente por sus técnicas, que siempre le permiten recuperar el dinero prestado.

Ellaria Arena

Indira Varma es Ellaria Arena.

Sobre el personaje: Procedente de Lanza del Sol (Dorne), Ellaria Arena es la amante de Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pascal), una mujer de pelo negro y muy llamativa que acompañará a la "Víbora Roja" hasta Desembarco del Rey. Tiene cuatro hijas bastardas del príncipe conocidas como las serpientes de arena.

Walda Frey

Elizabeth Webster es Walda Frey.

Sobre el personaje: Más conocida como Walda "la Gorda", es una de las nietas de Walder Frey (David Bradley) y la mujer de Roose Bolton (Michael McElhatton). La joven se casó con Bolton como parte del acuerdo de éste con su abuelo para vengarse de los Stark. Roose escogió a la chica por ser la más gorda después de que Frey le ofreciese el peso de su prometida en oro como dote.

Gregor Clegane, la Montaña

Hafthor Julius Bjornsson sustituye a Ian Whyte como Gregor Clegane, la Montaña.

Sobre el personaje: Hermano mayor de Sandor "el Perro" Clegane, Gregor es el cabeza de la Casa Clegane y vasallo de los Lannister. Siempre fiel a Tywin (Charles Dance), la crueldad de La Montaña es conocida en todo Poniente.

Tommen Baratheon

Dean-Charles Chapman sustituye a Callum Wharry como el Príncipe Tommen Baratheon.

Sobre el personaje: Tercer hijo de Robert Baratheon y Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) -aunque su verdadero padre es Jaime Lannister), el príncipe Tommen Baratheon es un niño dulce y bondadoso, todo lo contrario a su hermano mayor, el Rey Joffrey (Jack Gleeson).

Daario Naharis

Michiel Huisman sustituye a Ed Skrein como Daario Naharis.

Sobre el personaje: Miembro de la compañía mercenaria Cuervos de Tormenta que se puso al servicio de Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) ayudándola a liberar a los esclavos Yunkai.

Hizdahr zo Loraq

Joel Fry es Hizdahr zo Loraq

Sobre el personaje: Hizdahr zo Loraq es el joven descendiente de una antigua familia de Mereen (la última ciudad de esclavos en pie) que se cruza en el camino de Daenerys Targaryen.

Cuervo de Tres Ojos

Struan Rodger es el Cuervo de Tres Ojos

Sobre el personaje: El cuervo de Tres Ojos es el famoso animal que le aparece en sueños a Bran Stark.

Madame

Lu Corfield.

La actriz de Doctors interpretará a la Madame de un burdel situado en las inmediaciones del Muro.

Caballero de la Puerta

Alisdair Simpson es El Caballero de la Puerta.

Sobre el personaje: El Caballero de la Puerta es el comandante de la Puerta de la Sangre, el fuerte que conduce al Valle de Arryn.

Lady Anya Waynwood

Paola Dionisotti es Lady Anya Waynwood

Sobre el personaje: Lady Anya Waynwood es la cabeza de una importante de su familia y Señora de Roble de Hierro, uno de los asentamientos del Valle de Arryn.

Lord Blackmont

Daniel Rabin es Lord Blackmont

Sobre el personaje: La Casa Blackmont es una casa noble de Dorne, vasallos de la casa Martell, por lo que probablemente sea uno de los acompañantes de Oberyn Martell en su viaje hacia Desembarco del Rey.

Morag Craster

Deirdre Monaghan es Morag Craster

Sobre el personaje: Morag Craster es una de las numerosas mujeres salvajes de Craster.

Una mujer de Craster más

Saffie Jacobs

La actriz interpretará a una de las 19 esposas que tenía el salvaje Craster.

Personaje aún desconocido

Jane McGrath

La actriz irlandesa interpretará a una salvaje de más allá del Muro.

Personaje aún desconocido

Sigur Rós.

Los miembros de la banda islandesa Sigur Rós, Jón Þór Birgisson, Georg Hólm y Orri Páll Dýrason, participarán en la cuarta temporada de Juego de Tronos, aunque no se ha avanzado en la piel de qué personajes. ¿Música para la boda de Joffrey y Margaery?

Personaje aún desconocido

Brenock O'Connor

El fichaje más joven de la cuarta temporada, Brenock O'Connor, interpretará a un "chico de la aldea" en los nuevos episodios.

Personaje aún desconocido

Hoji Fortuna.

Tampoco se ha revelado la identidad del personaje que interpretará el actor angoleño Hoji Fortuna (Viva Riva!).

Personaje aún desconocido

Octavia Alexandru.

Esta jovencísima actriz rumana interpretará un personaje que todavía no ha sido revelado en la cuarta temporada de Juego de Tronos.