S4 Ep11: A Cast of Kings – An Interview with Bryan Cogman, Writer and Co-Producer of Game of Thrones

A Cast of Kings - A House of the Dragon Podcast

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🗓️ 12 May 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, Joanna and David chat with Bryan Cogman, a writer and co-producer of Game of Thrones. Cogman wrote this week’s episode, “The Laws of Gods and Men.” We chat with Cogman about crafting scenes that never appeared in the book, which characters are his favorite to write, the tumultuous first season of the show, dealing with zealous Game of Thrones fans, and writing one the most memorable courtroom scenes ever.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to a cast of kings an unofficial podcast about the HBO
0:04.7	original series Game of Thrones. I'm David Chen and I've never read any of the
0:09.0	books in George R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. My name is Joanna Robinson I've
0:12.8	read every book in George R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. And we have a special
0:16.0	treat for you guys today. The first time in a cast of King's History we have
0:20.4	someone who's actually involved in making the show some actual expertise.
0:25.7	So an actual expertise involved in making the show on the podcast joining us
0:30.3	today. Brian Cogman is a co-producer and writer of Game of Thrones. He's also
0:35.7	the writer of this week's episode which I believe is called The Laws of Gods
0:40.0	and Men. Is that correct? Yes, the Laws of Gods and Men. And you also wrote
0:43.7	Oathkeeper from season four of Game of Thrones. Brian Cogman, welcome to a cast of
0:49.5	King's History Dooclacer. Thank you. I'm great. You way oversold the coolness of
0:54.1	your guests. I'm afraid all your listeners are going to be like, oh I thought
0:57.8	they got thinklids or something. No, a bunch of you a bunch of people guest. Oh my god.
1:02.0	I'm so excited. I'll do it. Yes. Yes. I think I think you were confusing
1:07.5	oversold with undersold Brian. Oh no. No, no, no. No, you're very kind. Well Brian,
1:13.0	we really appreciate having you on the show. Now before before we get this
1:17.5	show on the road today we should let people know that we are going to spoil
1:21.7	everything through this week's episode of Game of Thrones which is through
1:25.9	season four episode six. The Laws of Gods and Men. We will not spoil anything from
1:31.0	future weeks episode of Game of Thrones. That includes anything from the next
1:34.0	time on preview. A lot of people are probably going to be wondering are we going to be
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