'Game of Thrones' Will Shoot Multiple Endings to Prevent Spoilers
Plagued by leaks during its recently concluded seventh season, "Game of Thrones" is resorting to an old TV trick to preserve secrecy about next season's series finale.
The producers will shoot several different endings of the final episode, Casey Bloys, HBO's programming president, said at a recent event.
"You have to do that on a long show. Because when you're shooting something, people know," he said, according to a local report. "So they're going to shoot multiple versions so that there's no real definitive answer until the end."
HBO refused to comment on production details. But David Benioff and D.B. Weiss the creators of "Game of Thrones," have previously acknowledged they would take steps to keep viewers in the dark about the final season.
The tactic of shooting multiple outcomes to thwart would-be leakers goes back at least to "Dallas," which filmed several possible resolutions of its infamous "Who Shot J.R.?" mystery in 1980. "The Sopranos" and "Breaking Bad" each shot more than one version of their endings. More recently, "The Walking Dead" filmed death scenes for all 11 possible victims.
It's hard to fault "Game of Thrones" for planning such preventive measures. Multiple scripts and episodes were leaked online during Season 7 as a result of hacks and other skulduggery, as well as gaffes from HBO's partners.
None of this kept the global fantasy hit from reaching new highs in viewing in Season 7. The season finale was its most-watched episode ever.
Production on the six-episode final season of "Game of Thrones" will begin in October and run into the following summer. The season will debut later in 2018 or perhaps even in 2019.
生词好句
spoiler /ˈspɔɪlə/: n. 剧透
spoiler alert: 剧透警告
plague /pleɪɡ/: vt. 困扰
resort to /rɪˈzɔːt/: 诉诸
secrecy /ˈsiːkrɪsi/: n. 神秘感
finale /fɪˈnɑːleɪ/ /fɪˈnɑːli/: n. 大结局
tactic /ˈtaktɪk/: n. 计谋；战略；策略 (指为了达成某个特别具体目的的策略；strategy 是大方向上的策略)
thwart /θwɔːt/: vt. 阻挠
fault /fɔːlt/ /fɒlt/: vt. 挑错；责难
skulduggery /skʌlˈdʌgəri/: n. 阴谋 (原意是通奸)
gaffe /ɡaf/: n. 让人难堪的无心之过
"I think the main reason is that people
binge watch because they can. We're
like dogs, really. If we like something,
we tend to gorge ourselves on it until
there's no more left. And as bingeing
becomes possible and commonplace,
it's only natural that shows should
start to take it into account."
D. B. Weiss