The world of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones, which is filmed in Ireland and Malta, is a bloody one. As fans have discovered no main character, no matter how beloved, is safe from sword or sorcery.
But some viewers are crying foul after a recent episode cut to a head on spike that looked jarringly familiar: it was former two-term president George W. Bush.
It wasn't a political statement the show's runners claimed this week. 'George Bush’s head appears in a couple beheading scenes,' the show runner told the Washington Post. 'It’s not a choice; it's not a political statement. It’s just, we had to use what heads we had around.'
The resemblance to the former president although striking was unintentional a show runner claimed.
'We use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We can’t afford to have these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them, so we rent them in bulk. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush,' the source said.
'We were deeply dismayed to see this, and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste,' HBO said Thursday in a statement. The cable networks intends to remove the scene from all future DVD shipments and future airings.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.BigDaddy | Jun 16, 2012, 04:05 PM EDT
Please. The phony furor is indicative of how stupid the elite class thinks everyone else is. If we see Duhbya's head on a stake it may awake us from our Fox News induced slumber and we will take action, is that the fear? Go back to sleep losers. Your idiot king is safe for now. I'm hoping he takes a trip to Spain just for shits and giggles.
seanomelb | Jun 15, 2012, 06:20 PM EDT
They had to use some losers head
irishpjk | Jun 15, 2012, 06:09 PM EDT
MegK31, they were looking for an intelligent head so that left our present leader out, if the needed an amadon then he would have been in the running.
peterson | Jun 15, 2012, 03:40 PM EDT
Very discusting
RGMBrown | Jun 15, 2012, 12:19 PM EDT
all people here on earth have ancesters who probably we look like ,so i do not understand this grype . i also have found pictures of other people who look my family or myself,so humans on other planets are similar to us.can look the same
MegK311 | Jun 15, 2012, 12:14 PM EDT
It was was discusting and sick. If they had used a head of Obama there would be riots in the streets. Don't tell me there were no other heads available. Why did they have a head of President Bush in the first place. This was done as a political statement. They should not use the head of any President in this way regardless of party.