A $30,000 throne was gifted to a "Game of Thrones" fan attending Thursday night's fan premiere event at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.
Reuters reports a total of 7,000 people bought tickets to the advanced screening of the "Game of Thrones" season four premiere in New York City. There was a panel discussion about the show featuring series author George R.R. Martin and select cast members, but the most exciting part of the evening was when Mike Ross, 37, of Hoboken, New Jersey won a full-size replica of the Iron Throne.
"I have no idea where I'm going to put it," Ross told Reuters. "We'll make a little room for it."
The fourth season premiere of HBO's "Game of Thrones" will air on April 6. Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have been making the press rounds in order to promote the upcoming season, which feels like a midpoint for them.
Beinoff explained to Entertainment Weekly there have been many discussions as to where the series should end, and it looks like "Game of Thrones" won't make it past an eighth season.
"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."
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