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2011 Holiday Gifts Roundup: Game of Thrones DVD Set
Ok, you’ll have to wait for this gift, so only buy it for fans who are very patient and forgiving. Luckily, most of GRRM’s fans are exactly that! We’re used to waiting years, so a scant few months is nothing. This would be an especially fun taunt to buy for those fans who swore off GRRM forever because he dared make them wait! Blub, blub, blub!
Pre-order the first season of Game of Thrones from the HBO shop. DVDs are $59.99 and Blu-Ray discs are $79.98. Features include “Making of” behind the scenes footage with cast and crew, the creation of the title sequence, interactive guide to the realm of Westeros complete with character profiles, how the Dothraki language was crafted by David Peterson, and BEST OF ALL, some audio commentaries! Peter Dinklage included!
Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season comes out March 6, 2012, plenty of time to marathon the 10 episodes before Season Two starts on April 15th.
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Official: Peter Dinklage to Play Herve Villechaize
Many moons ago, my little birds told me that maybe-possibly Peter Dinklage was going to play Herve Villechaize in the upcoming biography, My Dinner with Herve. It turns out the rumor was true, and the movie should start shooting next year. Dominic Cooper co-stars as the reporter who last interviews the actor, best known as Tattoo from Fantasy Island, before he committed suicide on September 4, 1993.
The actual reporter who met with Villechaize was Sacha Gervasi, the screenwriter and director of the upcoming film. No other names have been announced, and casting is still in the works.
Quoth Peter Dinklage to TV Guide: “He was an amazing painter and did a lot of charity work with children but had tremendous heartbreak.”
Peter Dinklage Wins Spike Award
Peter Dinklage is really raking in the awards! He has received the illustrious achievement of Best Supporting Actor from Spike TV’s 2011 Scream Awards for his role as Tyrion Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones.
You can watch Peter accept his award via magic tonight (Tuesday, Sept. 18th) at 8/9 Central on, of all places, Spike TV.
Up against the likes of Kieran Culkin (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), Rupert Grint AND Alan Rickman (Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows), as well as Tommy Lee Jones (Captain America: The First Avenger), Peter Dinklage managed to come out on top. Also worth noting: Game of Thrones won for Best TV Show!
Notice that Fringe didn’t win anything this time around. Boo-hoo!
Peter Dinklage Emmy Acceptance Speech
Just thought you’d enjoy watching this video clip of Peter Dinklage winning the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor (Drama) on Sunday night!
I love that he thanked his pet sitter for watching his dog while he was filming Game of Thrones. 
Peter Dinklage Wins Emmy!
He did it! He did it! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!
Peter Dinklage won Best Supporting Actor at the 2011 Emmy Awards for his role as Tyrion Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones!
*does happy dance x3*
All his fans knew it was inevitable. This was a much deserved win. More details… maybe video… to come, now I must bask in the glow.
Oh ya, congrats, Mr. Dinklage! You deserved it.
Game of Thrones Special Effects: CGI & Green Screen in Season 1
Call me an ignoramus, but I didn’t catch all the details that qualify as “special effects” in HBO’s Game of Thrones when I watched it this past season.
I think I really believed that they either found a magical location with these really cool castles or had them built. Because, it’s easy to build castles on location, right?
Hey, I didn’t think the Wall was real. I’m not THAT dumb’n. I thought maybe it was claymation or something.
What’s the secret? Green screen was heavily used to create all those awesome castle turrets and spires! The trick is, they make sets of the bottom half of what they want and green screen the tops, so they can add in the towers, pillars and whatnot. The stallion statues outside of Vaes Dothrak? The Horse Gate, my friends, is all CGI. Sorry! You can’t buy it on ebay. 
Even though Peter Dinklage is pretty badass, they weren’t really going to just drop him on the edge of a cliff. Obviously, he’d fly away or something if he had to wait too long. There’s lots of filming left for him to do! So instead they greenscreened it to save time lugging all the gear up there. It’s essentially win-win.
And there are some other added touches that required CGI; you don’t just get that much snow south of the Wall, especially not in Ireland in the summer! They pretty much created Winterfell, The Eyrie and King’s Landing out of thin air. Since you probably realize that the Wall is not real, then you won’t be too surprised to see that the elevator is just a prop, like a medieval Tardis. I’d LOVE to see Tyrion pissing off the “Wall” in green screen behind-the-scenes!
Peter Dinklage also Narrates in The Wordy Shipmates
I know you’ve probably been wondering the same thing that I have. “That Peter Dinklage has a fine voice, why doesn’t he do more voice acting?” Well it turns out that he’s done a bit of voice over work, thank you very much!
Peter Dinklage has narrated at least two documentaries, a miniseries titled The Real Family of Jesus and Freedom Machines from POV, a PBS documentary series. We announced a few weeks back that he also voices one of the stories in The Bippolo Seed, a collection of “lost” tales from Dr. Seuss.
Finding voice actor credits for book narration is rather difficult, as not all narrators are listed on the audiobook. I’ve compiled a pretty solid list of his works, so when I stumbled upon a reference to Peter Dinklage narrating in The Wordy Shipmates by author Sarah Vowell, I was skeptical. But it’s legit! He reads the part of Roger Williams, an English-born Puritan with heretical notions of freedom of religion and the separation of church and state. He also was one of the founders of Rhode Island; he helped buy the island from a local tribe.
The book has gotten pretty good reviews, but I did gather that although it has a historical bent, it’s got many of the author’s personal anecdotes and memoirs from the present sprinkled throughout the novel. Some people complained about her speaking voice being nasally or whiny, but I don’t find it a problem. I might change my mind after 7 hours though.
Take a listen and see what you think!
Game of Thrones gets Stiffed in the Portal Awards?
The results of the 2011 Portal Awards were announced on Thursday, with some good news and some bad news for Game of Thrones Fans.
The TV show Fringe managed to upset some of GoT’s sure-wins. Fringeophiles voted it in for Best TV Actress (Anna Torv) and Best TV Supporting Actor. Peter Dinklage should have received the Supporting Actor award, but it went to Fringe star John Noble, possibly as a direct result of him being snubbed for an Emmy nomination. Fringe also received Best Special Guest because they pulled out The Nimoy. I totally give them that. They also got Christopher Lloyd for another episode, so – props!
I really can’t believe Peter Dinklage didn’t win.
It wasn’t a complete sweep for Fringe, since Game of Thrones got Best Actor (Sean Bean), Best Episode (Winter is Coming) and Best Series. So in a numbers game, it comes out even.
I have a few more nits with the Porties.
Daniel Radcliffe won Best Young Actor and he’s like 30 22. I understand JJ Abrams is responsible for Fringe, but I’ve also seen Lost and Super 8. Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who) really should have gotten the Gene Roddenberry Award because 1) she’s been around longer and 2) she’s dead now. I also feel that Helena Bonham Carter (HP Deathly Hallows, Sweeney Todd) should have gotten an honorable mention or something.
And really, when it comes down to best website, i09 beats the pants off of GateWorld. I’m sorry, that’s just how it is.
Peter Dinklage Narrates in Lost Dr. Seuss Stories
My little birds wanted me to tell you that Peter Dinklage is one of the narrators of the audio version of The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, a collection of stories by the one and only Dr. Seuss.
In fact, they’ve just finished recording.
Other narrators for the audio book edition include: Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog) Joan Cusack (Toys, Toy Story 2 & 3), Anjelica Huston (The Adams Family, The Royal Tenenbaums), Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl, Alvin and the Chipmunks), Edward Hermann (Oz, Gilmore Girls), all of whom are experienced voice actors.
Seuss scholar and collector Charles D. Cohen hunted down stories written by Dr. Seuss (AKA Theodor Geisel) and published during the early 1950s in a variety of magazines.
The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
Peter Dinklage at Comic-Con 2011 Wrap-up: GoT and Knights of Badassdom Panels
Peter Dinklage had a lot going on at San Diego Comic-Con this year. Not only did he have two panels to attend, he also gave some interviews and attended press events.
Sadly, I was not in attendance at Comic-con 2011 so I have nothing to report first-hand. But I did scour the internet to find some of the best video clips and interviews for you, fellow Dinklage fans.
Game of Thrones Panel
The GoT panel at Comic-Con had a huge turnout, thousands in line had to be turned away. Long line was loooong.
Hopefully you got to follow along with some live coverage of the panel from either HBO Connect or Winter-is-Coming.net. If not, then check out this run-down from WiC’s very special FaBio. Sums it up nicely!
Just in case you want to see the event with your own eyes, a number of kindly folk have uploaded on the ‘Tube: here (via ThinkHero), here (in bite-sized chunks) and here.
Knights of Badassdom Panel
More quipping from Peter Dinklage at the KOB panel, with fellow costars Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Summer Glau (Firefly), Jimmi Simpson (Always Sunny in Philidelphia) and director Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2).
Couldn’t dig up any live footage, but BleedingCool.com provided some live blogging and a few minor spoilers from the cast.
Here are some great articles on Peter Dinklage’s skills in battle, insight into his character Hung, and some more goodies on the KOB cast are buried in this con-report from EOnline.com.
Watch the Knights of Badassdom trailer! “In a world….” prefaces all the greatest trailers.
Fingers crossed that Knights of Badassdom is released Spring 2012.
