'Game Of Thrones': By The Numbers

12:23 PM PDT 4/14/2011 by Lesley Goldberg

From the budget to the beheadings, THR breaks down HBO’s hotly-anticipated fantasy series.

When Game of Thrones premieres Sunday, it will mark nearly two and a half years since HBO first ordered the pilot. The sprawling fantasy series, based on the best-selling “A Song of Fire and Ice” book series by George R.R. Martin, tells the story of the noble Stark family after patriarch Eddard (Sean Bean) becomes the king’s right-hand man.