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"Roy Dotrice has signed on to Game of Thrones.  Dotrice will be playing the pyromancer Hallyne in the second season of the fantasy series. The British actor has previously voiced three volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, the George R. R. Martin series on which the HBO show is based. Martin confirmed the news on his website earlier today.  &amp;quot;Yes, it&amp;#039;s ROY DOTRICE in the role of Hallyne the pyromancer, chief of the Guild of Alchemists,&amp;quot; he wrote. HBO executives Richard Plepler and Michael Lombardo recently confirmed that they are committed to the show, claiming that Game of Thrones will continue as long as Martin keeps writing books in the series. In the past few months, a number of actors have signed on to star in the second season of the drama, including Gemma Whelan, Tom Wlaschiha, Carice van Houten, Stephen Dillane and Natalie Dormer.  Game of Thrones will return next spring.  Watch the Comic-Con trailer for Game of Thrones below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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