HBO's hit fantasy drama series "Game of Thrones" will be giving its fans a look into the past to further understand the current storyline as the show hits Season 5.
Since the first season, the TV adaptation of George R.R. Martin's critically acclaimed novel series "A Song of Ice and Fire" has avoided the use of narrative flashbacks to remain focused on current circumstances.
For the fifth season, however, "Game of Thrones" will be coming back to the small screen with its very first flashback moment.
According to Entertainment Weekly, such scene may be used as the opening part of Season 5's first episode.
In a Q&A session with film students in Spain where the cast and crew are currently filming certain scenes of Season 5, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss announced that they would be using a flashback moment.
Entertainment Weekly had put forward a quote from a Spanish website that was roughly translated and had not been associated with a specific producer:
It said, "By making the first season, we set a rule: No prophecies, dreams or flashbacks. We failed the first two and this season the third. So yes, this season will finally have flashbacks."
"Game of Thrones" began filming at the Alcazar Palace in Seville this October and will carry on to Osuna to shoot more scenes. The team also went back to locations where they filmed the previous seasons, including Belfast in Northern Ireland and Dubrovnik in Croatia.
While majority of the cast members will be reprising their roles, a new actor has been recently signed on for the fifth season. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who played Mr. Eko in "Lost" and was Kit Harington's (Jon Snow) co-star in "Pompeii," has joined the cast lineup. He will play a character named Malko, and more details about his role may be announced soon.
The fifth season of "Game of Thrones" has been set to premiere in spring 2015.
