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In 2001, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring hit movie theaters with an incredible impact. Along with the Harry Potter series, it gave fantasy fans proof that the great stories that make up that genre could be made into quality movies.

The biggest problem was that Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy may have set the bar too high. When these kinds of properties started to get adapted as TV shows, they tried to equal the splendor of their big-screen counterparts, which means high production costs. Now those costs may be out of control.

Jackson did a brilliant thing when he decided to film all three Lord of the Rings movies at once. All of the production costs, sets, salaries, etc., were part of one project rather than three. Now, one season of Amazon's The Lord of the Rings TV show, The Rings of Power,...

Blink and you’ll miss it, but George R.R. Martin made a subtle “cameo” in House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 7 on Sunday, July 28. “Cameo” is a slight stretch, seeing as Martin himself was not physically in the scene, but his likeness was! The moment came at Harrenhal, when Daemon (Matt Smith) was being put to the test by the new Lord Tully, Oscar (Archie Barnes). Look closely at the weirwood heart tree in the courtyard and you’ll see a face carved in. That face is Martin’s, as revealed by the Season 2 Episode 7 installment of The House That Dragons Built, a behind-the-scenes series tagged onto the end of each episode (and also streaming separately) on Max. The idea to carve Martin’s face into the tree was series creator Ryan Condal, who shares a creator credit with Martin in addition to serving as showrunner and executive producer. “What...

Hotd: How Ridley Scott's Gladiator Influenced the Battle of Rook's Rest - Main Image

House of the Dragon is still halfway through, but the series has just delivered one of the biggest setpieces: the Battle of Rook’s Rest.

Interestingly, the location chosen to shoot the scene, Bourne Wood, was inspired by Ridley Scott’s Gladiator.

How Gladiator Inspired the Battle of Rook’s Rest in Hotd

In the latest instalment of the House of the Dragon making-of docuseries, The House that Dragons Built, director Alan Taylor revealed that they were shooting at the same location that was the opening battle scene for the original Gladiator.

Production designer Jim Clay explained, “Bourne Wood is a bit of a popular location because it goes back to Gladiator days and Ridley Scott. So you think, 'If Ridley Scott chose it, then it’s got to be pretty good,’ and it did.