The 'Game of Thrones' panel for the 2016 San Diego Comic Con includes stars playing killed-off characters. (Photo : Getty Images/Kevin Winter)
The "Game of Thrones" (GoT) panel for this year's San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) will include cast members that are both still on the show and those whose characters have already been killed off.
HBO announced that GoT's cast members who will be joining the July 22 panel include Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark), Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Bolton), John Bradley (Samwell Tarly), Hannah Murray (Gilly), Kristian Nairn (Hodor), Liam Cunningham (Sir Davos Seaworth), Conleth Hill (Varys), Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei), and Faye Marsay (The Waif).
Not all of these stars' characters have made it to the end of the HBO hit series' Season 6 alive. Rheon's, Nairn's, and Marsay's characters were killed in the latest season. Ramsay was eaten alive by his own hounds after losing in the battlefield to Jon Snow, White Walkers feasted on Hodor while he was trying to save Bran, and The Waif was killed by Arya Stark, played by Maisie Williams.
Executive producers and showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss, as well as Michael Sapochnik, who directed Season 6's last two episodes, will also join the panel.
The panel and question-and-answer session is slated for Friday, July 22, from 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m., at San Diego Convention Center's Hall H. It will be moderated by Rob McElhenney of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." The panel and Q&A session will also be followed by an autograph signing at 4:15 p.m.
International Business Times wrote that panel attendees should not expect the cast members to say much about the fantasy drama's next season or reveal what happens next. GoT, based on the novel by George R.R. Martin's novel series, just finished airing its 10-episode sixth season and cast members have yet to return to set for Season 7.
In fact, the news site noted, the series will not be able to make it to its usual April season premiere because of weather-related delays. Benioff and Weiss had explained that they are starting shooting later because they have to wait for "some grim, grey weather" to replace the current sunny weather in their shooting locations.
The GoT panel in last year's SDCC was also graced by Turner, Bradley, Cunningham, Murray, Hill, as well as by Williams, Alfie Allen, Gwendoline Christie, Natalie Dormer, and Carice van Houten.
