HOW 'GAME OF THRONES' KILLS PEOPLE BY DRAGON FIRE WITHOUT ACTUAL DRAGONS, EXPLAINED
Game of Thrones' big battle scenes are becoming more reliant on Daenerys Targaryen's (Emilia Clarke) dragons as the series winds down. Case in point, last week's "Loot Train Attack" in "The Spoils of War," in which one-dragon army Drogon incinerated a good portion of the Lannister army.
Drogon's fury took up a large portion of the climactic battle scene, and it was pretty spectacular to watch on screen. But filming these fiery sequences is understandably a challenge for the show's creative team, because, well, dragons are not real.
So how do they do it? On set, a stick with a ball on the end stands in for Drogon, according to cinematographer Robert McLachlan, who was director of photography on both "The Spoils of War" and last Sunday's episode, "Eastwatch."
