HBO's Game of Thrones
has closed out its second season to record numbers. We were hoping the ratings might be so good that HBO would just go ahead and order Seasons 3 & 4 in one fell swoop, but we'll have to be content with just the one for now. We'll be getting 10 more episodes in the spring of 2013, covering some of the events of the third book, A Storm of Swords
. However, recent interviews with the showrunners have indicated that as they move forward they plan on adapting A Song of Ice and Fire
as a whole, rather than trying to squeeze specific books into specific seasons. This will have the unintended consequence of making it much harder for me to know who needs to be cast for each season. :)
If you've read the books, you know that means we'll be seeing a host of new characters, in addition to the favorites who managed to survive seasons 1 & 2. I've always been a huge fan of casting speculation, so I'm channeling my excitement for season 3 into a series of posts where I cast the major roles. And don't forget, Sean Bean and Peter Dinklage were the fan favorites to play Ned & Tyrion, so who knows, maybe I'll actually get one right along the way.
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Daario Naharis
Daario is the leader of the mercenary warrior crew The Stormcrows. He is originally from Tyrosh, and follows that city's customs with his brightly dyed hair and ornate beard. He is a lothario, and is immediately taken with Daenerys, even though he has been hired to keep her out of Yunkai, a city on Slaver's Bay. Daario serves, in some ways, as the anti-Jorah Mormont in Dany's life. He is not even slightly chaste in his affections, and is much more reckless in his suggestions. Unless he is altered greatly from his depiction in the books, Daario should bring some romantic tension to Dany's storyline for the first time since the death of Khal Drogo.
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Aidan Turner
Turner hit the big time playing John Mitchell, the vampire on the original, BBC version of
Being Human. Before that, he starred as Dante Rosetti in the BBC miniseries
Desperate Romantics. He is currently wrapping filming on
The Hobbit, in which he plays Kili, one of the thirteen dwarves who enlist Bilbo Baggins in their quest to retake Erebor. Turner is Irish, so he'll be able to come home after an extended stay in New Zealand while still working. He just turned 29, so he's older than Emilia Clarke without being so much older as to make a potential relationship skeevy (not that GoT has any problems with skeevy). He'll probably get a big boost in popularity and recognizability once The Hobbit comes out, but the first once won't be released until this Christmas, so a recurring role in an HBO show would be the perfect thing to pass the time until he becomes "famous". Finally he's available, and I would think he'd love to get in on the phenomenon that GoT has become while he's been toiling away in Middle-earth.
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Previous GoT S3 Casting Speculation:
Mance Rayder
Brynden Tully
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