Particularly if he were found and nursed back to health by the Elder Brother-assuming that is who McShane is playing-and his monastery, then surely he has a fighting chance? While the Hound may not have had Qyburn performing all manner of voodoo on him, it makes sense he would be as strong and resilient as his big brother.
#The hound game of thrones skin#
Qyburn’s experimenting on the near-dead giant seemingly brought him back to life as by the end of Season 5, he was back on his feet protecting Cersei Lannister-albeit looking freakishly red-eyed and his skin a shade of blue. He spent the conclusion of the fourth season, and the majority of Season 5, in nefarious maester Qyburn’s makeshift laboratory teetering on the edge of death. The Hound’s brother, Gregor Clegane, aka the Mountain, managed to defy death in Season 5, so who’s to say the resurrection gene doesn’t run in the family?Īlthough he emerged victorious in his battle with Oberyn Martell in Season 4, the Mountain didn’t come out of the fight unharmed. If there’s one thing Game of Thrones has taught us it’s that the Cleganes are a wily bunch.
That would certainly leave the actor’s schedule open for the summer of 2015 when GOT went back into production.
#The hound game of thrones movie#
Since leaving Game of Thrones in 2014, McCann has only added two new credits to his IMDB page: a role in Michael Fassbender movie Slow West, released in 2015, and a four-episode stint in a BBC drama called Banished that aired in March 2015. Rory McCann Seen on Set?Ĭonvinced yet? If you need further proof-Hound actor Rory McCann was reportedly seen on the set of Season 6 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in August 2015 and stayed at a local hotel HBO uses to house cast and crew. If McShane is indeed playing the Elder Brother, and it certainly sounds like he is, and his spoiler about bringing a dead character back to life holds weight, then it’s likely we’ll be seeing our favorite Clegane brother again. Oh really? Readers have inferred that another character described in the background of the scene-a gravedigger with a Herculean build, covering his scarred face with a scarf-sounds pretty familiar indeed. He informs her the Hound is dead and that he buried the body himself. In the novel, the Elder Brother meets Brienne, who has given up her efforts to help Arya and is now searching for Sansa, on the Quiet Isle. The Elder Brother is the leader of a religiously devout community on the Quiet Isle and among his congregation is a rather interesting chap. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, that is a close enough description to a character called the Elder Brother, first introduced in the fourth book, A Feast for Crows. He’s a salt-of-the-earth man who has weathered many battles.” For fans of George R. Now a no-nonsense rural priest who ministers to the poor of the countryside. Then earlier this month, speaking on BBC Breakfast, he went on to reveal his character is an “ex-warrior who becomes a peacenik.”Ī quick look at a casting breakdown for Season 6 and fans have speculated McShane’s character is the one described as “a man in his 40s or 50s. In November 2015, he told Pop Goes the News some crucial information about his role on the show: he’s playing someone that brings back a character previously thought dead.