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Nine years ago, before anyone knew how huge it was going to be, the HBO TV series’ first season was partly filmed in Malta. Some of those involved look back at those fateful shoots ahead of the final episode out tonight. Every Saturday for the last five yea‘The reason they’re coming here is Game of Thrones’
Nine years ago, before anyone knew how huge it was going to be, the HBO TV series’ first season was partly filmed in Malta. Some of those involved look back at those fateful shoots ahead of the final episode out tonight. Every Saturday for the last five years, Malcolm Ellul has loaded up a coach full of eager tourists and set off on a tour around the island, stopping not at temples or churches, but at the place where Ned Stark fought Jaime Lannister, where Daenerys Targaryen gave birth to three dragons, or where Queen Cersei once said: “When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die.” As the HBO mega-series comes to a close – and nine years after it filmed its first season in Malta – appetite among fans to see the real-world palaces, gardens and cliff-sides that stood in for Westeros has not yet dried up: nearly all the film tours Mr Ellul runs are now Game of Thrones tours. And all are fully booked, with American, English and German visitors making up the bulk. “I have a lot of people who first book the tour, then book their flights and accommodation. The reason they’re coming here is because of Game of Thrones,” said Mr Ellul, who worked as a background actor when the... Read more
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