Awesome New Teaser Trailer for HBO's GAME OF THRONES
HBO has just released a great new teaser trailer for their incredible-looking new fantasy series Games of Thrones, which is based on the epic George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice novels.
The story is set in the mythical land of Westeros and centers on the noble Stark family, who become caught up in high court intrigue when patriarch Eddard (Sean Bean) becomes the king's new right-hand man. The plan is to turn each book of the series into a full season of HBO television.
The show looks like it's going to be amazing, and I can't wait to see it! The series is set to premiere on April 17, 2011. Watch the teaser trailer below and tell us what you think!
The pilot episode was directed by Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor), based on a script by David Benioff (25th Hour andTroy), and the series stars Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage, Iain Glen, and Lena Headey.
Here's the official plot description:
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.