‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 Trailer: Four Rulers Prepare For War
By Jacob Hall/March 30, 2017 11:00 am EST
Because HBO knows that they have a genuine phenomenon in Game of Thrones, they can get away with teaser trailers like this: 90 seconds of wholly original, beautifully shot footage…that also clearly won’t be part of the final show and was just put together to lavishly remind you that Game of Thrones is pretty, pretty great. Remember, this is also the network that announced the season 7 premiere date by melting a block of ice with blasts of fire.
The footage itself is simple: Cersei Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, and Jon Snow (Stark?) all pace through their castles, eventually taking a seat upon their hard-won thrones. For Cersei, it’s the Iron Throne at King’s Landing. For Jon, it’s the King in the North’s throne at Winterfell. For Daenerys, it looks like the previously unseen throne in Dragonstone, which would be an ideal base of operations for a queen invading from the east.
Of course, there is the fourth king, the only one that isn’t human: the Night King, whose undead forces gather along the Wall and whose intentions make the three-way war amongst the living look trivial in comparison. There may not be any actual show footage in this trailer, but it sure does get the blood pumping.
Game of Thrones season 7 is set to premier on July 16, 2017.
