Kit Harington needed a reset. The Game of Thrones alum—who portrayed bastard-born Jon Snow for all eight seasons of fantasy show—got candid about how he checked himself into a rehab facility...

Fantasy TV shows often base themselves on prior work, whether it be from novels, movies, video games, or even comics and graphic novels. This is because a lot of fantasy shows have a huge world with a lot of lore, so it's just more practical to bring an already existing universe to life rather than try to craft a new one (although this has still been done).

The Royal Shakespeare Company has unveiled a 36-strong cast for the play “Game of Thrones: The Mad King,” with Michael Shaeffer in the title role of King Aerys II Targaryen. The world premiere of the new play, adapted by Duncan Macmillan from George R. R. Martin’s novels, opens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon […]

Kit Harington and Peter Dinklage haven’t seen each other for seven years — not since the 2019 conclusion of “Game of Thrones,” the megahit HBO fantasy series that launched Harington’s career and cemented Dinklage’s, earning him three Emmys. But they spent the better part of a decade working together, enduring brutal conditions to tell an […]

George R. R. Martin, for better or worse, knows storytelling. But the man behind the biggest fantasy series in the world, a series which famously did not stick the landing in any way, shape or form, has a bone to pick with another series that once caught the imagination of the viewing public. From the very start, viewers were wowed by polar bears, smoke monsters, cursed numbers, secret bunkers, time travel, and while Martin was one of them, he had a big problem with the grand finale.

Emilia Clarke will not bend the knee to false narratives. After the internet was set ablaze with rumors that she and the rest of the Game of Thrones cast were paid $300,000 per episode during the...