Having trouble keeping track of who’s who and what’s what in the final season of Game of Thrones? The show’s stars are here to help. Sort of. Several stars from Game of Thrones‘ past and present, appeared on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! for a parody advertisement introducing Game of Phones, a hotline to help fans make sense of HBO fantasy drama’s intricate storylines and its multitude of characters. Stars appearing in the bit include Sophie Turner, Lena Headey, John Bradley, Joe Dempsie, Maisie Williams, Kristian Nairn, Iwan Rheon, and Liam Cunningham. You can watch the full ad in the video above.
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The final season of Game of Thrones premiered on Sunday to record-breaking ratings on HBO. The episode was watched by 17.4 million viewers on Sunday night, accounting for encore presentations and streaming views.
Game of Thrones is based on the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by George RR Martin. The television adaptation will come to its conclusion before the source material. The most recent novel in the series, A Dance with Dragons, released eight years ago, a month after the premiere of Game of Thrones. There are still two books left — The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring — for Martin to complete his epic. Some fans worry that Game of Thrones will spoil the finale of the fantasy saga, but Martin has said the two will come to different conclusions.
“I’ve been so slow with these books,” Martin told Rolling Stone. “The major points of the ending will be things I told them five or six years ago. But there may also be changes, and there’ll be a lot added.”
Co-showrunner DB Weiss told Entertainment Weekly about the privilege fo adapting the series, saying, “If you’re going to spend 10 years working on one show, you better really love the people you work with because you’re spending a sh**load of time away from your family and friends. You always put everything into it. So to spend time on a show that people respond to all over the world, it’s incredibly gratifying. You have these characters you love and you can come up with ideas for them, and a few months later these incredible actors will be saying those things. That’s such a rare gift.”
What did you think of Game of Phones? Let us know in the comments. Game of Thrones returns to HBO for its final season on April 14th.
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