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'Game of Thrones' cast defend final season at Comic-Con

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Andrew Marszal, Agence France-Presse

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style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:4px;flex-grow:0;height:14px;margin-bottom:6px;width:224px"> </div><div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:4px;flex-grow:0;height:14px;width:144px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpGKx0Hd4Z/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by HBO (@hbo)</a> on <time dateTime="2019-04-24T14:45:56+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Apr 24, 2019 at 7:45am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><script async="" src="http://www.instagram.com/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script><p>SAN DIEGO -- The &quot;Game of Thrones&quot; cast leapt to the defense of its much-maligned final season in front of a boisterous crowd at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, blaming the backlash on negative media coverage.</p><p>The HBO fantasy epic&#x27;s conclusion enraged fans around the world, and organizers of the pop culture convention reminded attendees before the retrospective panel to make the cast &quot;feel welcome.&quot;</p><p>While the cast drew a rapturous reception, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau -- who played Jaime Lannister -- was booed after describing his character&#x27;s death in the arms of his sister and lover Cersei as &quot;perfect.&quot;</p><p>&quot;It made sense to me,&quot; said the actor, before being interrupted by a heckler.</p><p>&quot;This show has brought so many people together, watching it, loving it. So obviously when it comes to an end it&#x27;s going to piss you off no matter what... just don&#x27;t call people names,&quot; he added. </p><p>An online petition to HBO to remake the final season with &quot;competent writers&quot; was signed by 1.6 million people.</p><p>The panel was billed as the show creators&#x27; first public outing following the backlash.</p><p>But showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss quietly withdrew along with two cast members earlier in the week.</p><p>The remaining members expressed support for the final season. Conleth Hill -- who played Varys -- described the fan response to the show over the years as extremely positive, referring to the negativity as a &quot;media-led hate campaign.&quot;</p><p>The atmosphere quickly lightened as cast members joked about stealing props from the set.</p><p>John Bradley, known to fans as Samwell Tarly, addressed another controversy, shooting down theories that he was to blame for a plastic water bottle accidentally left in shot during the final season.<br/>&quot;Pardon me for being thirsty,&quot; he joked.</p><div><strong>TV takes over</strong></div><p>After Hollywood film stars Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger dominated Thursday&#x27;s opening day, television took center stage at Comic-Con Friday.</p><p>Netflix surprised attendees by screening the first episode of &quot;The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,&quot; its upcoming prequel series to Jim Henson&#x27;s classic 1982 fantasy film.</p><p>Its combination of old-fashioned puppetry and cutting-edge visual effects aims to cast a spell on old and young alike.</p><p>Mark Hamill and &quot;Rocketman&quot; star Taron Egerton -- who both provide voices -- appeared in a panel discussion.</p><p>Fan favorite Hamill was presented with Comic-Con&#x27;s &quot;Icon Award,&quot; telling the audience he felt lucky &quot;to be able to do all the things I loved as a kid and get paid for it.&quot;</p><p>&quot;This is just seems wildly excessive,&quot; the &quot;Star Wars&quot; actor joked about the accolade, before serenading the crowd with his &quot;Buddi&quot; song from the film &quot;Child&#x27;s Play.&quot;</p><p>Amazon Prime wheeled out &quot;Carnival Row,&quot; starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, which is set in a fantastical Victorian-esque world filled with mythological immigrant creatures. </p><p>Bloom said it was a &quot;great gift and opportunity&quot; to be in a show which was &quot;so timely and... spoke to a lot of the issues with relevance to what&#x27;s happening in the world today.&quot;</p><p>AMC used its annual &quot;Walking Dead&quot; franchise panels to confirm veteran Danai Gurira -- who appeared in the recent blockbuster &quot;Avengers&quot; movies -- will depart the zombie show.</p><p>Gurira, who first appeared on the series in 2012, received a standing ovation.</p><p>Plans were also teased for a series of films starring Andrew Lincoln, who announced his own departure from the show -- the highest rated series in cable television history -- at last year&#x27;s Comic-Con.</p><div><strong>Avengers eye record</strong></div><p>Earlier, &quot;Avengers: Endgame&quot; directors Joe and Anthony Russo said it would be a &quot;big thrill&quot; to pass the all-time box office record held by &quot;Avatar,&quot; as they set out plans to collaborate with a number of different stars from the Marvel superhero universe.</p><p>&quot;Endgame&quot; is inching ever closer to surpassing James Cameron’s $2.788 billion haul. It is currently just $5 million short, and was still playing in 1,400 US theaters at the weekend despite being released in April.</p><p>&quot;James Cameron has always been an idol of ours... to be so close to one of his great films is really special,&quot; said Anthony.</p><p>The filmmaking brothers said their next project &quot;Cherry,&quot; starring &quot;Spider-Man&quot; actor Tom Holland, will be a &quot;mature&quot; and &quot;complicated&quot; look at the US opioid crisis.</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s touched our families, the crisis, so it&#x27;s a deeply personal movie for us,&quot; said Anthony. Filming will begin in October.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>The "Game of Thrones" cast leapt to the defense of its much-maligned final season in front of a boisterous crowd at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, blaming the backlash on negative media coverage.</p>

The "Game of Thrones" cast leapt to the defense of its much-maligned final season in front of a boisterous crowd at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, blaming the backlash on negative media coverage.

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'Game of Thrones' cast defend final season at Comic-Con

Andrew Marszal,

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Published Jul 21, 2019 10:07 AM PHT

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