
On Game of Thrones, Castle Ward stood in for Winterfell it’s where Jaime pushes Bran Stark out a window in the first episode. Honor Among Thieves filmed at Castle Ward in in Strangford, Downpatrick it’s where the paladin Xenk (Regé-Jean Page) makes his first appearance.Both Game of Thrones and Honor Among Thieves made use of other sets in the Titanic Quarter, as well. As Liston put it, “We revamped the King’s Landing backlot set into Neverwinter,” the name of the big city in Honor Among Thieves. HBO built a giant King’s Landing set at Titanic Studios for the final season of Game of Thrones.

And there was rather a lot of crossover, including: The job of the Honor Among Thieves team, then, wasn’t to avoid Game of Thrones shooting locations, but to shoot them differently. Usually, she tells them the same thing: “Guys, there were eight seasons, 76 episodes, 10 years that we shot in Northern Ireland what do you think? There isn’t much of a patch of Northern Ireland that we didn’t shoot on Game of Thrones, and it’s up to you to shoot it in a different way and turn it into something different.” Overlap between Game of Thrones and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Speaking to The Daily Beast, Liston said that directors often her if Game of Thrones shot somewhere or other in Northern Ireland. For instance, the new movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves filmed extensively there it even hired location manager Naomi Liston, who worked on all eight seasons of Thrones. From Titanic Studios in Belfast to Tollymore Forest Park to Ballintoy Harbour, HBO filmed all over this country.Īnd because Game of Thrones was such a big hit, it inspired other studios to follow suit, turning Northern Ireland into a hub for film and TV production. Game of Thrones was filmed all over the world, but its base of operations was in Northern Ireland.
