“Game of Thrones” visual effects supervisor Joe Bauer spoke with HuffPost during the summer to help set the record straight, which he does below. Rumor: There will be ice spiders in the show. Here's an official sneak peak of John Howe's cover art of our 2020 SoI&F calendar featuring the legendary ice spiders which haunt old Nan's creepiest bedtime stories. We asked Bauer if there was any point when the show had thought about adding the ice spiders, but the visual effects supervisor said they were just a little too fantastical. Bauer told us “Battle of the Bastards” involved a lot of disturbing photo research in terms of all the gore that’s featured.

Source: Huffington Post April 14, 2019 14:48 UTC