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Just a bit over a week left to the premiere of House of the Dragon‘s third season premiere, and another behind the scenes teaser has dropped, this time focused on the absolutely massive logistics behind the spectacles promised for this season which explain, to some degree, just why it takes so long to produce a season:
Among the details are that the season involved 314 days of filming, with the naval battle that will be featured in the opening alone taking 27 days of shooting.
The official Making Game of Thrones production blog has a post detailing the ending of season 3 filming late last year in Iceland. The environment they were in sounds rather amazing:
“We are filming by special permission at the power station in Krafla, high on the top of a mountain with steam plumes from a geothermal spa nearby twisting into the sky. Every so often a waft of the sulphurous waters blows by. It’s not really a welcome visit.”
As to what they were filming? Despite it being at the very end of the shoot, it’s an opening scene from the first episode, directed by Dan Minahan. Some spoilerish details follow: