Ok, so that wasn’t the trailer for the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones” during Super Bowl Liii — but it was a “Game of Thrones”-themed ad for Bud Light featuring a “GoT” character and directed in part by David Nutter, the man who shot the “Red Wedding” and directed half of the series’ upcoming final six episodes. Oh, and there is a dragon.
Titled “Joust,” the 60-second spot starring The Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) and The Bud Knight, which aired during the second quarter of the game, delivered “a quintessential ‘Game of Thrones’-twist ending to the latest entry in Bud Light’s series of ‘Dilly Dilly’ commercials,” according to HBO press materials.
If you are looking for more information about that ad — because, you know, you don’t have a trailer to watch yet — we’ve got you covered.
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Titled “Joust,” the 60-second spot starring The Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) and The Bud Knight, which aired during the second quarter of the game, delivered “a quintessential ‘Game of Thrones’-twist ending to the latest entry in Bud Light’s series of ‘Dilly Dilly’ commercials,” according to HBO press materials.
If you are looking for more information about that ad — because, you know, you don’t have a trailer to watch yet — we’ve got you covered.
Also Read: 'Game of Thrones...
- 2/4/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Winter is coming — actually it has arrived. Game of Thrones made an appearance at the Super Bowl with an unlikely character by the name of Bud Knight. He has a jousting match with The Mountain and it doesn’t turn out well.
As part of Bud Light’s “Dilly Dilly” commercials, the commercial spot starts off as a quirky Bud Light Super Bowl commercial. Fun, right? Well, before we get ahead of ourselves, the commercial takes a dark turn when Bud Knight is defeated by the Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) in a jousting match. And as the Mountain performs his eye-gouging finishing move on him, a dragon comes and lays a fiery waste on everyone at the jousting match. What an unlikely way to end a Bud Light commercial.defender of the “Dilly Dilly” kingdom in a jousting contest.
Building on the latest chapter of the medieval “Dilly Dilly” series,...
As part of Bud Light’s “Dilly Dilly” commercials, the commercial spot starts off as a quirky Bud Light Super Bowl commercial. Fun, right? Well, before we get ahead of ourselves, the commercial takes a dark turn when Bud Knight is defeated by the Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) in a jousting match. And as the Mountain performs his eye-gouging finishing move on him, a dragon comes and lays a fiery waste on everyone at the jousting match. What an unlikely way to end a Bud Light commercial.defender of the “Dilly Dilly” kingdom in a jousting contest.
Building on the latest chapter of the medieval “Dilly Dilly” series,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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