Hollywood Reporter

"As inspired as I was when I first read the outline and scripts, I also had this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach," director of photography Robert McLachlan tells THR.

It takes great courage to ride into the mouth of a dragon — not to mention meticulous amounts of planning.

Jaime Lannister's (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) seemingly impulsive charge at the fire-breathing Drogon in the riveting "The Spoils of War" episode of HBO's Game of Thrones was far from a split-second decision. Indeed, according to director of photography Robert McLachlan, the action-packed moment, as well as the entire action-packed sequence now known as the Loot Train Battle, was the result of "weeks and weeks" of careful planning, roughly 18 days of actual filming and several different departments working in concert with one another to compose one of the most technically complicated movements in the show's seven-season history.