Send a raven! After its premiere at IMAX screens a few days back, the good folks at HBO has dropped the first feature length trailer for season 5 of Game of Thrones. And, as we have all come to expect from one of the costliest and sprawling fantasy dramas ever to land on the small screen, it is a stunner.
Set to a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes,” the trailer checks in with all our favorite, familiar faces, while introducing a few new ones too. We see Sansa still under the thumb of Littlefinger. Or is it the other way around? We see the hint of another royal wedding, a scheming Lannister or two as usual, Jon Snow doing his best to lead his men, and Arya striking out on her own.
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But the trailer saves the best moment for last. Sure, Daenerys gets a shining moment earlier on with one of her pithy one-liners, “I’m not going to stop the wheel, I’m going to break the wheel.” But what becomes clear, as the trailer comes to a close, is that Varys (and maybe Tyrion) have plans for Dany. Great, big, Westerosi plans. She might just be the hero King’s Landing deserves.
New cast members for season five include Alexander Siddig as Doran Martell; Jessica Henwick as Nymeria Sand; Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as Tyene Sand; and Keisha Castle-Hughes as Obara Sand.
Game of Thrones season 5 begins on 12 April 2015 and will adapt material from George R. R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons.
