Season 1, Episode 14
James Hibberd
Joining us this week is Entertainment Weekly Editor-at-Large, screenwriter and author, James Hibberd. We’ll discuss his recently released book, Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Official Untold story of the Epic Series, as well as his many other beats at EW, including “The Mandalorian,” “Westworld,” “Dexter” and the DC Cinematic Universe.
Rather than our usual format of covering someone’s hobbies in relation to their full-time jobs, this week we’ll chat with James about his fascinating career covering the many worlds that we all love so much.
James on location in Winterfell:
Some additional images of James with the people he writes about:
James Hibberd with cast from The Last Ship
James Hibberd with cast from The Last Ship
James Hibberd with the cast of Battlestar Galactica
James Hibberd with the cast of Battlestar Galactica
James Hibberd moderating a GoT Comic Con panel
James Hibberd moderating a GoT Comic Con panel
James Hibberd with the cast of Game of Thrones
James Hibberd with the cast of Game of Thrones
James Hibberd with Emilia Clark
James Hibberd with Emilia Clark
Hosts & Guests
Jesse McDonald
Keith Goode
James Hibberd
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About This Episode
Timeline
0:19 – Intro and Banter
1:23 – Introducing James Hibberd
4:54 – Tell us about yourself, James
6:56 – Interviewing On-Location for Game of Thrones
8:34 – Dining (and drinking) with the stars
11:08 – Witnessing the transition from anonymity to fame
13:35 – How to write about such a grand world
15:53 – Legal hurdles for writing the book
17:36 – The 100,000-Word goal
19:40 – The Screenplay Writing Economy
23:04 – Tell Me Something Good(e)
28:04 – Covering The Mandalorian for EW
30:02 – Star Wars Vloggers and Spaghetti Westerns
35:59 – Podcasting about The Mandalorian
37:46 – Which Nerd Beats do you like outside of GoT?
39:10 – Beats You’ve Grown to Love more as you cover them
40:26 – Missed-opportunity Beats
42:02 – Obsessive Work vs. Balance Work in Hollywood
44:35 – Hatchet Throwing and a GoT Celebrity Competition
49:24 – Red Ash and other favorite dining
51:17 – The Lightning Round
56:23 – The Wrap
57:07 – End Credits
Shout-outs in this Episode
If you missed anything in this episode, we’ve captured most of the topics covered in this interview below. No links provided. Google it if you want to learn more.
- Entertainment Weekly
- Game of Thrones
- Star Trek: Discovery
- EW’s Game of Thrones Weekly Podcast
- DC Comics
- Justice League
- Christopher Nolan
- George R.R. Martin
- House of the Dragon Prequel
- Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin
- Emilia Clark
- Kit Harrington
- Sean Bean
- HBO
- David Benioff
- Tell Me How I Die (2016 Horror Film)
- Waco
- Tell Me Something Good(e)
- James – The Last Dance (documentary)
- Jesse – Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel, by A.W. Jantha
- Keith – Salux Nylon Japanese Beauty Skin Wash Cloth
- The Mandalorian
- Mike Zeroh
- Star Wars Theory
- Dave Filoni
- The Clone Wars Series
- Rebels
- Bill Burr
- The Thrawn Trilogy
- Grand Admiral Thrawn
- Moff Gideon
- Jon Favreau
- Westworld
- Black Mirror
- Dexter
- The Walking Dead
- AMC
- Disney
- Netflix
- Tony Robbins
- Eckhart Tolle
- Jason Momoa
- George Lucas
- Ladonia (micronation)
- Red Ash
- Back to the Future
Not a Sponsor (Yet) Mentions
- Salux
Lightning Round
- Self Help books helped know how to not be a failure
- Marty McFly
- Traveling for leisure rather than work
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