Hello and welcome to another very special Empire podcast, starring Neil Marshall, the director

of Dogs Olders, Descent Centurion, and now, the ninth episode of the second season of Game

of Thrones, also known as Blackwater.

This is a special spoiler-filled podcast for people who watch the program.

If you haven't watched Game of Thrones, and especially if you haven't watched this

episode, you may want to wait until you have, but if your ears are still ringing to the

sound of people screaming, shouting, and blood pouring out of other people's bodies, then

carry on listening.

You've got a great half an hour or so of Neil Marshall explaining just how we got involved,

how you make fire burn green, and a bunch of other interesting stuff, so enjoy.

We're here to talk about the exciting episode of Game of Thrones, Blackwater, which

year this week, the Comactic Battle Sequence, where it looks like we blew the entire season's

budget.

Is that right?

Pretty much.

I wasn't entirely privy to how much you were spending, but I just kept on pushing it until

that somebody said stop, you know, I want this, I want that, I want that, and at some

point someone said, you can't quite have that.

And it was, obviously, the battle happened at night.

I can't remember from the books whether it's a night-time assault, then, was this a,

we can occlude a lot of stuff with darkness, decision always it just to make the fire.

Look more impressive.

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