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Northern Ireland is the place where Game of Thrones season seven has started filming.

Ireland will not be the only location where the famous fantasy-drama will be shooting, but in countries like Spain and Iceland as well.

The characters that survived George Martin’s writing will be seen this season next to the Oscar-winning actor, Jim Broadband.

The new season will include only seven episodes instead of ten as usual.

Directors Alan Taylor, Jeremy Podeswa, Mark Mylod and Matt Shakman were contacted to film the new season.

Season 6 of “Game of Thrones” broke audience records of HBO averaging 23 million viewers per episode. This season has received no less than 23 Emmy nominations.

Game of Thrones is the first book in the series “A Song of Ice and Fire ‘, an epic fantasy written by George R. R. Martin. The novel, published on August 6, 1996 won the Locus Award in 1997 and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1998 and the World Fantasy Award in 1997. The novella ‘Blood of the Dragon’, which includes chapters of the novel about Daenerys Targaryen, won the 1997 Hugo award for “best novella”.

The name was given afterwards deriving from the games from novel, including one with playcards, one with pawns and a computer one.

Game of Thrones and its subsequent novels ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series were adapted into a television series from HBO, comics, cards, board games or videos. HBO producers have decided that only seven seasons will be filmed.

George R. R. Martin is also thinking about a film adaptation of ’A Song of Ice and Fire’ series and/or of the series of novels the “Tales of Dunk and Egg”.