‘Game of Thrones’ Director Miguel Sapochnik Previews Battle of Winterfell: ‘This Is Survival Horror’
“Avengers: Endgame” is hardly the only big-budget spectacle debuting this weekend. Sunday night finds “Game of Thrones” airing the long-awaited Battle of Winterfell in an 80-minute episode that has already been billed as featuring one of the longest battle sequences ever put on television or film. Behind the camera for the episode is Miguel Sapochnik, the director who has helmed the most iconic “Thrones” battles (see “Hardhome”) and won an Emmy for his direction of “Battle of the Bastards.” Sapochnik recently told Entertainment Weekly he prepped for the Battle of Winterfell by studying Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” specifically the legendary Helm’s Deep battle sequence.
“The siege is a 40-minute sequence, but it’s actually three different battles in three different places intercut,” Sapochnik said. “That was the biggest thing I could think of that was contemporary. I was trying to get a...
“The siege is a 40-minute sequence, but it’s actually three different battles in three different places intercut,” Sapochnik said. “That was the biggest thing I could think of that was contemporary. I was trying to get a...
- 4/26/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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