It feels as though Game of Thrones is forever setting records, but the latest is a little unusual. In a June interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner David Benioff revealed that Season 7 of Games of Thrones featured the most instances ever of setting people on fire. Last night's episode, "The Spoils of War," saw that sequence play out when Daenerys attacked the Lannister army with her dragon Drogon.
Benioff told Entertainment Weekly, "In one battle scene we set more stuntmen on fire than have ever been simultaneously set on fire. Our stunt coordinator really wanted to get in the Guinness Book of World Records for this."
Unfortunately, setting stunt people on fire isn't a statistic that is tracked by the Guinness Book of World Records, but at least the world knows all about the latest GoT achievement.
According to the show's stunt co-ordinator, Rowley Irlam, the sequence "has 73 fire burns." According to Irlam, "No film or TV show has ever done that in a whole show, let alone in one sequence. We also set 20 people on fire at one time, which is also a record."
Clearly, Irlam is extremely proud of this major stunt achievement, and in a show as violent as Game of Thrones, it's always necessary to up the ante.
