Game of Thrones Season 5 Spoilers: Cast and Crew Preview Exciting New Episodes

The Season 5 premiere of HBO's Game of Thrones has arrived, and the cast previewed what should be a thrill ride of new episodes.

First, we hear from creator George R.R. Martin.

"Yes, there will be [surprises]," Martin told E! News. "[Executive producers] David [Benioff] and Dan [D. B. Weiss] are bloodier than I am so no one is safe here. Even characters who are still alive in the books will die in the series. What can you do? Hold on to your seats and hope it's not your favorite character who winds up beheaded or disemboweled or poisoned."

"We've been looking forward to this season for a long time because for so long, the worlds of the show have been separate. There's the east and the west and they've never come together, and finally, this season, west meets east," Weiss said. "Without spoilers, the end of season four saw a couple of major characters sailing east. It's just so fun for us to write for these characters that we know and we love so well at this point when they start to encounter other characters that we know and we love so well that they haven't met before. That's one of the really exciting things to see for season five."

"It should be the most surprising season so far if we didn't screw it up, which is definitely possible," Benioff said with a laugh. "We'll find out in about two months!"

And one of the biggest changes comes courtesy of Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage).

"I killed our father, so that's definitely going to put a damper on things," Dinklage says of how his brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) feels about what he did. "He definitely didn't release me to do that, so that's a bit of a shocker, I'm sure."

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