The fourth season of "Game of Thrones" is set to premiere the first week of April and the showrunners promise a more action packed series than ever before.
The upcoming season of the HBO show will follow the second half of the third book in the series. Executive producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss explained to Vanity Fair (via ComicBookMovie.com) how difficult the series was to shoot in the forth season because of the visual effects needed.
"[Season 4] was more action this season than there ever has been before. And it's just much more time consuming," Beinoff told Vanity Fair. "To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days. But the actors have gotten better at the fighting. Yesterday we were watching this fight scene with Kit Harington [Jon Snow] in it, and he did this movement - "Is that sped up? Because it looks a little - ". Weiss jumped in, "That looks fake! Let's take the frame-rate..." But he was actually moving a thousand miles an hour with a heavy sword in his hand. He's good. He's really good."
Beinoff recently explained to Entertainment Weekly season four is also the midpoint of the series. The showrunners plan to end the "Game of Thrones" series after seven seasons.
"It feels like this is the midpoint for us," Benioff said. "If we're going to go seven seasons, which is the plan, season 4 is right down the middle, the pivot point."
"I would say it's the goal we've had from the beginning," he added. "It was our unstated goal, because to start on a show and say your goal is seven seasons is the height of lunacy. Once we got to the point where we felt like we're going to be able to tell this tale to its conclusion, that became [an even clearer] goal. Seven gods, seven kingdoms, seven seasons. It feels right to us."
