<Li> Robert Aramayo as Ned Stark </Li> <P> Series creators and executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss serve as showrunners for the seventh season . The directors for the seventh season are Jeremy Podeswa (episodes 1 and 7), Mark Mylod (episodes 2 and 3), Matt Shakman (episodes 4 and 5) and Alan Taylor (episode 6). This marks Taylor's return to the series after an absence since the second season . Shakman is a first - time Game of Thrones director, with the rest each having directed multiple episodes in previous seasons . Michele Clapton returned to the show as costume designer, after spending some time away from the show in the sixth season . She previously worked on the show for the first five seasons, as well as the end of the sixth season . </P> <P> Depending upon the release of George R.R. Martin's forthcoming The Winds of Winter, the seventh season may comprise original material not found in the A Song of Ice and Fire series . According to previous reports, some of the show's sixth season had consisted of material revealed to the writers of the television series during discussions with Martin . </P> <P> Filming began on August 31, 2016, at Titanic Studios in Belfast, and ended in February 2017 . In an interview with the showrunners, it was announced that the filming of the seventh season would be delayed until later in the year due to necessary weather conditions for filming . The showrunners stated "We're starting a bit later because, you know, at the end of this season, winter is here, and that means that sunny weather doesn't really serve our purposes any more . We kind of pushed everything down the line so we could get some grim, gray weather even in the sunnier places that we shoot ." </P>

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