Jamie Campbell Bower added to 'Game of Thrones' cast

Jamie Campbell Bower - AP Photo

Jamie Campbell Bower ("Caius" in The Twilight Saga: New Moon) has joined the cast of another television series.
After having done The Prisoner, a television mini-series addendum to the 1967 classic, Bower will soon be joining a new HBO show called Game Of Thrones.
According to UGO, the series is "based on the book series 'A Song of Ice and Fire' by George R.R. Martin."
The Irish Film & Television Network what has been given the green light by HBO is "a pilot and nine episodes" and it "is expected to be the biggest television series ever filmed in Europe." Filming for Game Of Thrones "will commence in June in Northern Ireland."
Not only is the fact that Game Of Thrones is filming in Northern Ireland a good thing for U.K. native Jamie Campbell Bower (at least where convenience is concerned), but it is also bringing hope to the local community that others will follow suit.
Reports IFTN:

Northern Ireland Screen’s Head of Marketing, Moyra C. Lock tells IFTN that the news of the series’ green-light was met with enormous joy. “It’s very exciting,” she says, “this series could easily do for Northern Ireland what ‘The Lord of the Rings’ did for New Zealand.”

The Los Angeles Times states that filming for the pilot took place "in Northern Ireland and other European and North African locations in late 2009, 'Game of Thrones' will resume production on nine additional episodes in the summer . . . it probably will premiere in 2011."