‘Game of Thrones’ Claims Record For Number of People Set on Fire in Season 7

Game of Thrones is on fire! Literally. Thrones showrunner David Benioff recently revealed to Entertainment Weekly that a scene in the upcoming Season 7 set the record for most people set on fire in a production.

She’s not called the Unburnt for nothing. Daenerys re-earned that title after her capture by the Dothraki. When the khals gathered to decide her fate, she turned the proceedings around on them. She decided their fates -- death by fire. She declared that only she was fit to lead the Dothraki and then set the hut ablaze, emerging unharmed and triumphant. --Kelly Woo(Credit: HBO)
Daenerys emerging unharmed from the fire. (Photo: HBO)

Benioff said, “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.”

Thrones‘ stunt coordinator, Rowley Irlam, added, “One sequence has 73 fire burns and that itself is a record. 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. I think in Saving Private Ryan they had 13 on a beach, and in Braveheart they had 18 partial burns. Because of the nature of our attacking animals, we had the liberty to expand on that.”

The show is no stranger to using flames for visual awesomeness, so we took a look back at some of the other times Game of Thrones decided to burn, baby, burn.

Game of Thrones returns Sunday, July 16, on HBO.

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