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Hafthór Björnsson famous for his role on 'Game of Thrones' as Gregor 'The Mountain' Clegane. We'll bet you didn't know that this massive godlike species of a man played professional basketball in Iceland before he took up lifting/moving very heavy things; and finally acting as his full-time career.

So, yeah. Take a moment to imagine this gigantic beast of a dude running down a basketball court, full speed, and with you as the only obstacle between him and the hoop.

Uhh, fu*k that noise is right. He's like one of those steroid-addled, veiny, superhuman, cartoon beasts from 'Space Jam,' but even bigger.

Before you cry "they already did that!" consider what Martin says about next season: "People are going to die who don’t die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. are even bloodier than I am." (Emphasis added)  So far most of the deaths the show has added have made sense; they gave heroic ends to characters that sort of just milled about in the books until you forgot about them.  But to say the show's writers creators are even bloodier than GRRM sounds a bit more substantial.  Who do you think might meet their end on the show that's still around in the books?

HBO's announced a release date for season 4 and promised a trailer this Sunday. Season 4 starts on April 6, 2014. Until Sunday, we'll just have to make due with these mini vine trailers:

Game of Thrones newcomer Elie Haddad shared a seemingly harmless photo of his morning brew and A PAGE OF THE SCRIPT FROM SEASON SIX.

Warning: very mild spoilers below Jon Snow

The picture has since been deleted, and much of the text is difficult to make out, but it appears to be two Dothraki having a lewd discussion about Daenerys. One man tells another, "I’d like to know what a khaleesi tastes like," to which the other responds, "Good. You can suck my d*ck."

We already knew the Dothraki would be back in season 6, so this leak doesn't tell us much, but with many months to go before the next season, any Game of Thrones news is exciting.

Congratulations show watchers who aren't book readers! The time has come for you to be able to tell your pretentious book reading friends who've been trying to spoil the show for you to piss off, because the show is going to have to start spoiling the books.

We've been talking to him for a while about this. The fact is we didn't want to catch up, obviously, we would hope that the books would come out ahead of the show. But at the same time George has his process and if it takes him 20 years to finish the series, that's what it should take him. I mean, he's writing, to my mind, the great epic of our, the great fantasy epic anyway of our time. We can't rush him and I wouldn't want to rush him. And at the same time we can't put the show on hiatus. We've got all these actors, wonderful cast, I mean I think the greatest cast ever assembled for a television show. And we can't take a two year break cause you know, these guys are in demand and they are going to go off and do other stuff. So we kind of have to keep pushing forward.

Luckily, we've been talking about this with George for a long time ever since we saw this could happen, and we know where things are heading. So we'll eventually, basically, meet up at pretty much the same place where George is going; there might be a few deviations along the route, but we're heading towards the same destination. I kind of wish there were some things that we didn't have to spoil, in terms of… for the books, but we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. The show must go on [laughs]. Just came up with that. And that's what we're gonna do.

I think the thing that's kind of fun for George is the idea that he can still have surprises for people even once they've watched the show through to the conclusion. There are certain things that are going to happen in the books that are different from the show, and I think people who love the show and want more—want to know more about the characters, want to know more about the different characters who might not have made the cut for the show—will be able to turn to the books. So, that's where we stand.

TLDR? GRRM is taking a long time to finish this series, and while D&D respect that, the show must go on (no really, they made that joke). The show will be forced to spoil some important plot points from books yet to be written, but a lot of things will be different between the two versions, too. Just think of all those characters who aren't even in the show that are in the books; they'll need conclusions too!

HBO released a statement to Entertainment Weekly in order to put Game of Thrones fans at ease after last night's surprising Brexit results. “We do not anticipate that the result of the EU Referendum will have any material effect on HBO producing Game of Thrones." 

The show films in Northern Ireland and other parts of Europe and HBO uses funding and tax incentives from regional programs, but luckily not ones that are expected to be impacted by the vote. 

You can sleep soundly Thrones fans, well, at least until Sunday's big finale.