It is reported that filming on a battle scene for the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones has recently been completed in Co Antrim - after a mammoth 55 nights.
US entertainment trade website Deadline reports that the producers of the HBO fantasy phenomenon wrote a 'thank you' note to cast and crew after the epic shoot.
A photo of the note was then posted on Instagram and was subsequently deleted - but not before a screenshot was taken by the Game of Thrones fan site Watchers on the Wall.
The note read: "This is for the Night Dragons.
"For enduring 55 straight nights. For enduring the cold, the snow, the rain, the mud, the sheep sh*t of Toome and the winds of Magheramorne.
"When tens of millions of people around the world watch this episode a year from now, they won't know how hard you worked. They won't care how tired you were or how tough it was to do your job in sub-freezing temperatures.
"They'll just understand that they're watching something that's never been done before.
"And that's because of you."
The final six episodes of Game of Thrones will premiere next year.
Speaking at the Innovative TV Conference (INTV) in Jerusalem, HBO's Senior Vice President of Drama said that the cast's table read of the final episodes of Game of Thrones "was a really powerful moment in our lives and our careers".
Warning: spoiler alert!
"None of the cast had received the scripts prior, and one by one they started to fall down to their deaths," Orsi recounted.
"By the end, the last few words on the final script, the tears just started falling down. Then there was applause that lasted 15 minutes."
We spoke to Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham about the finale at the IFTA Film and Drama Awards in Dublin in February:
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