icelandpictures:

The second season of HBO’s Game of Thrones is largely filmed in my backyard on and around the Mýrdalsjökull and Vatnajökull glaciers in Iceland. The filming was done last november and the airing will be between April and June this year.

The crew appears to value the unique Icelandic landscapes, saying “You could try to CGI this, but there is no need. Just look at this.” Director, Alan Taylor, also says that it inspires the crew, going “to a world that actually invokes the world we are trying to create”.

The filming was quite hush hush and didn’t cause much interest in Iceland. The first time people really noticed it, was when people thought lights from the filming was the beginning of a Katla eruption.

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