Game of Thrones: Interview w/ Co-Creator

<p>Along with the release of Game of Thrones Season 1 on DVD and Blu-ray&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve got an interview from <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;bluray&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;122&sol;1220334p1&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">IGN <&sol;a>with the series co-creator and executive producer&comma; D&period;B&period; Weiss&period;  He talks about the extras that he knows his fans&&num;8217&semi;ll go crazy for&period;  But what was Weiss most excited about on the Blu-ray set&quest; &&num;8220&semi;There are a lot of great things on in&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Weiss said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;but I would say that the big stand out would probably be the illustrated history of the world that&&num;8217&semi;s laid out in George R&period; R&period; Martin&&num;8217&semi;s books&comma; A Song of Ice and Fire&comma; which were beautifully illustrated by William Simpson&comma; who is our storyboard artist on the show and a notable comic book artist in his own right&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;And we had him team up with our writer Bryan Cogman who wrote some really nice narrative histories of the Seven Kingdoms that the DVD team then semi-animated with actors doing voice-over lines to tie it all together&period; We enjoyed watching them a great deal and we think the fans will as well&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;01ZMYAdra2A<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With several scenes being written specifically for the show&comma; fans are wondering if there was going to be a deleted scenes section for what was originally missing from Martin&&num;8217&semi;s text&period; &&num;8220&semi;Unfortunately no&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Weiss stated&period; &&num;8220&semi;We really ate what we killed during the first season&period; We were operating on a very tight timeline for production and so if there was a scene that we felt we didn&&num;8217&semi;t need for the show we tended to just not shoot that scene&period; And so they all just fell by the wayside&period; So there aren&&num;8217&semi;t any deleted scenes on the DVD&comma; but there are a ton of other goodies in terms of &&num;8216&semi;Making of&&num;8217&semi; featurettes and lots of commentary tracks to listen to&period; Just a ton of really interesting commentaries across the board about all the different episodes&comma; from a wide variety from the cast and crew&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the Game of Thrones San Diego Comic-Con panel&comma; the producers stated that they really wanted to put Jason Momoa&&num;8217&semi;s &lpar;Khal Drogo&rpar; audition on the set because he performed a wild&comma; crazy dance routine&period;  It turns out that only some auditions were put on the DVD and were christened hidden &&num;8220&semi;dragon eggs&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This is the first show that HBO has ever shot on Digital HD&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Weiss said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;which is something that we were very much behind after seeing probably one of the most expensive&comma; extensive &&num;8217&semi;35 mm vs&period; Digital&&num;8217&semi; tests for the Alexa camera that has ever been done&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;So we got to see and test what the Alexa could do on Digital&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Weiss went on&comma; &&num;8220&semi;and we ended up going with it because we knew it could survive and that it could withstand the real and true HD&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ve seen the episodes screened in screening rooms for the crew and we wanted to make sure that in the scenario where you&&num;8217&semi;re actually screening the show for people in theaters that it would hold up and preserve the theatrical experience&period; And we felt like it did and we were really excited about that&period; But we definitely shot the show with HD in mind and we based all our visual decisions around that&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;bluray&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;122&sol;1220334p1&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">&lbrack;Via IGN&rsqb;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;