April 14 will see the world watching HBO and Sky Atlantic as the final season of Game of Thrones is due to begin. Details have mostly been kept under wraps and a full trailer has yet to even surface. However, a recently unearthed script revealed the original disastrous pilot script and it included talking white walkers.
The Huffington Post’s Bill Bradley discovered a script found at Texas A&M University’s Cushing Memorial Library.
The script shows the original pilot which included several moments that never made it to the final cut.
Among these are Jon Snow (played by Kit Harington) getting drunk at the feast in Winterfell and Cersei (Lena Headey) burning King Robert’s (Mark Addy) feather for Lyanna Stark (Aisling Franciosi).
One interesting aspect included in the script is a special White Walker language.
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Fans will remember the iconic opening scene of these series which featured the bodies of dead wildlings massacred by White Walkers.
The White Walkers are presented as silent and mysterious creatures in the series, but the script reveals that they were originally going to have their own language which would be heard in the pilot episode.
In the actual aired episode, no such language is ever heard.
The language is described as sounding like ice and the script reads: “The crackling is coming from multiple sources now. These are not the noises of mindless predators. This is a language, and whatever is speaking it is getting closer.”
The script continues: “Will closes his eyes against the ice voices beneath him, muttering silent prayers.”
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The language was created by Game of Thrones language creator David Peterson who named the language Skroth.
In George RR Martin’s books, such a language is described but it never made it to screen.
Peterson explained: “I came up with basically some dialogue. I recorded it, and then I suggested to them, ‘Here’s how you might modify it digitally to give it a unique sound.
“It didn’t get used for the pilot, and then there was discussion they were thinking about using it in season two.
“They said they tried it, and it just wasn’t working out, so they abandoned the idea.”
Some other languages created for these series include Valyrian and Dothraki.
Fans have taken to Reddit to discuss the script discoveries.
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On the White Walker language, one person wrote: “I find the part about the white walker language interesting.
“I was kinda miffed by how the show didn’t really add the whole ‘white walkers might have culture’ aspect that’s hinted at in the books, and that grrm has talked about.” [sic]
While another added: “I’m intrigued by the white walker’s language and part of me wish they kept it in the show, but at the same time I’m glad they didn’t.
“By the way the language is described to sound (like crackling of ice) I cannot help but feel it would come off cheap and cheesy.” [sic]
One more said: “I don’t know, I feel like ice cracking is an ominous and disturbing enough sound that at worst it may look weird but I don’t know that it’d come off as cheesy. At least in my head in the books it sounds cool.”
Game of Thrones season 8 starts on HBO and Sky Atlantic on April 14