Miguel is an animal, praises Ser Jorah Mormont actor Iain Glen.
He takes care of each individual storyline so well.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:How eager were you to dive back into this?
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The thing for me is that everything should be appropriate for the job.
[Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] asked if I could come back for season 7.
I said I couldnt do season 7and8, I could only do one.
And thankfully, they said season 8.
So I was eager to come back.
Then I said 4 and 5 and they said, No, you have to do 3 and 5.
I make a run at approach all these [episodes] like theyre one.
Yes, there was talk of that.
Thank god it didnt happen.
I would be so dead right now.
I knew that was a lot when I came on board.
As usual, the scripts are bigger than what we actually end up making.
The process of whittling it down took longer this time.
Because David and Dan wanted everything.
After 20 minutes of watching a battle, youre over it.
So how do you stop it from being a battle in that sense?
And the action is around an hour Ive heard?I hope not more.
- It feels for me at some point you exhaust an audience.
That was the biggest thing I could think of that was contemporary.
I was trying to get a sense of when do you tire out.
I think were going to blow past that.
We also switch genres.
Each battle youve done have has a different feel and tone.
What is this one like?This is survival horror.
Thats the whole episode for me.
So Ive been trying to work out whose story this is.
Thats different than the stuff Ive done previously which was generally from Jons perspective.
Here Ive got 20-some cast members and everyone would like it to be their scene.
I keep thinking, Whose story am I telling right now?
And what restrictions does that place on me that become a good thing?
There are also dragons.The visual effects stuff is where you really where you do the pre-visualizing.
But weve been trying to hold onto the ability to improvise.
We have a way of shooting the dragons this time thats a little looser.
The Winterfell set, and [another new set that hasnt yet been seen], are pretty amazing.
Theyre like these giant sprawling playspaces.Thats what I like aboutGame of Thrones.
Everything would be broken into little morsels to be put back together.
Even onStar Wars, they build certain parts of the set and then add huge elements of green screen.
And that makes sense.
Theres an efficiency to that.
And I was walking around [the Winterfell set] thinking, This is a really cool set.
I can find angles I would never have found beforehand.
Speaking of which, the showrunners are writing aStar Warsmovie next.
If they asked you to direct it, are you down?Ah, youll find out.
Lets get through this first.
