'Game of Thrones' has a new trailer, but it's not what you're thinking
Game of Thrones is so hot right now, it seems HBO will make a trailer for anything involving the show -- including its Comic-Con panel.
Over three breathless tweets on its official Twitter account Thursday, the network unveiled a video featuring a quick shot from the upcoming Season 7 -- Dany's Dragons, heading to Stannis Baratheon's former island stronghold of Dragonstone -- and the date, time, and attendees on the panel in San Diego Comic-Con's infamous Hall H.
Snark aside, this is the first time Game of Thrones will be actually on our screens during Comic-Con -- the panel is on the Friday before Episode 2 -- so the interest level is likely to be at fever pitch (and the overnight Hall H lines are likely to be insane).
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And if you really want to read the runes, the (likely incomplete) list of panelists includes the actors playing Theon Greyjoy, Grey Worm, Missandei, Samwell Tarly, Brienne of Tarth, Ser Davos Seaworth, Lord Varys, Bran Stark, and Sansa Stark.
Presumably that means there's a part in Episode 1 for all of them.
Sophie Turner, a.k.a. Sansa Stark, was responsible for the odd nature of the Game of Thrones panel at Comic-Con 2016. It happened to fall on her 20th birthday, and, between bouts of laughter, she admitted to giving herself and her fellow panelists vodka shots before the event.
"I'm 20, I can do anything!" Turner said.
That vodka might have loosened the showrunners' tongues about Season 7, had the thing actually been written at that point.
Hopefully Sansa will be sober this time, and we'll get some actual news worthy of a trailer.
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Chris is a veteran tech, entertainment and culture journalist, author of 'How Star Wars Conquered the Universe,' and co-host of the Doctor Who podcast 'Pull to Open.' Hailing from the U.K., Chris got his start as a sub editor on national newspapers. He moved to the U.S. in 1996, and became senior news writer for Time.com a year later. In 2000, he was named San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine. He has served as senior editor for Business 2.0, and West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and Fast Company. Chris is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a long-time volunteer at 826 Valencia, the nationwide after-school program co-founded by author Dave Eggers. His book on the history of Star Wars is an international bestseller and has been translated into 11 languages.
