Mark Gatiss Confirms His Return to Game of Thrones for Season 7 

Mark Gatiss publicly confirmed his return as Tycho Nestoris the Iron Banker for the seventh season of

“Yes, I did it in Belfast last year. I can’t tell you anything more obviously, mostly because I don’t know anything.”  He tells

, “It was lovely. What I love about it is that I don’t have any stake in it.”

That would be quite a change for him. While Gatiss is a successful actor, he often wears multiple hats, writing several episodes of

, Gatiss says, “I honestly don’t know the ins and outs. People ask me this, that and the other, I haven’t got a clue. I’ve done four episodes now and there’s two more they think. It’s a huge saga and I don’t know and I rather like that. But I’ve had a lovely time.”

to date, and our sources confirmed for us that he’s set for two episodes in the middle of season 7. So the actor’s remarks are intriguing- it sounds as though the showrunners have already confirmed for Gatiss that he’s in two season 8 episodes!

As we reported last November when we first noted his return, Tycho Nestoris will visit King’s Landing to call in the Crown’s debt to the Iron Bank.

“The last scene I’m in with – I probably can’t say because it would be a spoiler, wouldn’t it?”

Given that he’s visiting with Cersei and the Crown, he just might be referring to Lena Headey. But we’ll see, won’t we!

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Love him, happy to hear he will be in more eps to come.

he stayed on and was part of the dragon pitt scene and gave a intrest free loan to the force that is going to fight the white walkers so they can hire the golden company and in return the iron bank wants regocantion for the part they played in saving the seven kingdoms and a gaurantee that all past loans will be paid no matter who rules kings landing

heh, it would have been funny if Gatiss was returning as….

On a more serious note, assuming that Tycho is going to Kings Landing, then will Cersei still be the queen?

And on a more serious note, will he be wearing a Cat-in-the-Hat hat? I am

The last scene in the series finale should be Mark Gatiss coming to Westeros to repossess the Iron Throne like the ultimate repo man. 😛

Maybe next season Tycho will go north and have an arc similar to the one in Dance.

The Iron bank is one of the most intriguing establishments in the book, so I am very happy to see it return in the show.

Considering Cersei has no fucks to give, I don’t see this being a happy ending for gatiss 🙂

The last scene I’m in with – I probably can’t say because it would be a spoiler, wouldn’t it?

“I’m not going to stop the bank, I’m not going to break the bank.”

— Daenerys Targaryen, the Elizabeth Warren of Westeros

H.Stark, Tertiary (hell, in this case, quaternary!) characters like this don’t have arcs: they are basically just plot devices that happen to be people. Moreover, it is way too late for that plotline: Jon’s no longer at the Wall and Stannis’ days as soi-distant King of Westeros are long gone!

My bet is that Tycho here will be taking the part of some other name in the books (should the books ever get to this) who represents the Iron Bank. It is sensible to use Gattis in that role because the audience now has a visual memory of him. True, it will be: “Wait, when did we see him before?” but as it will be associated with the Iron Bank, it should click quickly enough.

Tycho is going to charge the Lannisters double just for subjecting him to the singing of Mace Tyrell in season 5 and that’ll be his undoing.

Geez, what I would not do to give Warren three dragons…..

What I mean is reaching an agreement with Jon/the Starks, and helping them in some capacity. Because I don´t think Cersei cares about the bank, she will show him the exit.

Oh this is very intriguing.Even more the fact that he is set to return in season 8.I can just imagine Jon or Danny or both or whatever poor soul has the kingdoms after the war with the WW getting a visit from the Iron Bank coming to collect lol.That would be so funny.You can escape ice zombies but not the bank.

How does the Iron Bank enforce anything? Do they have an army to force anyone into paying them back? Seriously though, what would the Iron Bank do if Cersei or whomever was in charge told him to fuck off? Would they even be able to do anything about it?

The Iron Bank will hire the Faceless Men to kill Cersei as payback.

Jaqen will reappear in Westeros and task Arya with doing the job.

So much for the foolish and cynical line of thinking that the Crown’s substantial debt to the Iron Bank would go away quietly, and that the show would either drop the storyline or rapidly tie it up in a neat little bow. The writers always have been very good about revisiting and resolving these recurring threads. We already knew about Gatiss’s involvement in Season 7, of course, but if he’s hinting that he’ll be back for Season 8 as well, then it sounds like the concern will linger until the very end of the series. It seems that not even the coming apocalypse stops the Bank from having its due.

When news of Gatiss’s return first surfaced, I wondered if Cersei might demonstrate her

give-no-fucks-and-damn-the-consequences approach to power by having Tycho killed when he showed up to demand repayment. But if Tycho survives Season 7, that suggests that Cersei listened when Tywin described the Iron Bank as a temple:

“one stone crumbles, and another takes its place. And the temple holds its form for a thousand years or more.”

In that case, Tycho probably has better odds of surviving than almost everyone on the series. If the Night King needs to open a line of credit as his army makes their way south, I’m sure that he and his colleagues will be happy to oblige.

I can buy dragons, White Walkers and ressurrection, but a banker giving out interest free loans out of the goodness of his heart is stretching it…

Anyway, intriguing news for sure. I didn’t expect to see more of the Iron Bank story line, but now it looks like Cersei will have to deal with them. I have no idea how that will go down, but knowing Cersei I’m absolutely certain it’s going to be a ton of fun to watch.

Ah, yes, the old addage, “The only guarantees in life are death and taxes”.

Sounds like they are both coming for Westeros in the Wars to Come.

It was funny when Gatiss came on board , D&D , who are fans of him, had to suppress gushing and talking shop! It’s all so mysterious , because it does seem , story wise, that Braavos has some kind of part in the big big picture, this includes the FM too. (Well also R’hllor .)

Now , I don’t remember his name, Tycho Nestoris, being mentioned on the show, do I?

his last encounter will be with the Mountain. he will not return from king’s landing live.

H.Stark: Because I don´t think Cersei cares about the bank, she will show him the exit.

H.Stark: What I mean is reaching an agreement with Jon/the Starks, and helping them in some capacity.

Cersei certainly does not appreciate the power of the Bank, and her very “Tory” instincts seem to lead her to dismiss “Whig” power. However, because of this, my bet is that the Bank will put it’s money behind Daenerys, not Jon. Cersei seems to be following a very MacBethian path regarding Daenerys, and having Cersei further seal her prophesized doom in this way would be a nice flourish on that “motif.” (I’m not sure that is actually a motif: is it a trope, instead?)

But from the point of the plot, the Iron Bank will be acutely aware of Daenerys’ activities because: 1) it has to be disrupting economics in Essos (bad!) and, 2) Daeny’s abolitionist creed has to be resonating strongly in Bravos (good!). On the other hand, what happens in the North stays in the North. They probably will know about Stannis’ defeat because the Boltons clearly crowed (literally and figuratively) about that. We don’t know how quickly news of the Boltons’ downfall will percolate south. Jon et al. will have good reasons to

advertise this to the Lannisters. Of course, LF is there: and Loki Jr. does things for lots of different reasons. (There likely are not Lannister spies in those ranks, though, so news will not come from that.)

Mr Derp: Do they have an army to force anyone into paying them back?

We know that they provide financial support for the enemies of people who screw them over on the condition that the supported enemies get the Iron Bank their payments. That does not mean that the Iron Bank does not also use other means such as assassins: but what they really want is the interest on their loans, and simply killing a ruler and stirring up social disorder sometimes will not be conducive to their actual goal. Bravosi shareholders are not people with whom to be triffled, it seems! So, Tyrell was only partly correct: the Iron Bank is built on gambles, but the Iron Bank also alters the dice.

They can financially support another candidate for the throne, who will pay off his/her debts as well as the debts from the Crown. In the books they support Stannis, as book Cersei refuses to honor the Crown’s debts to the Iron Bank. As a result, the bank called in all debts and refused to give out loans throughout Westeros, plunging it in financial chaos. Interestingly enough, book Jon manages to secure a loan from the bank to feed the Night’s Watch through winter. I doubt the show will go in this direction though, as Stannis is dead and Jon will probably benefit from the Vale’s resources.

Another alternative would be to simply hire a Faceless assassin and strike a deal with whoever ends up on the throne to honor the debts. With the threat of assassins, they’d be willing to pay.

Pfft Euron ain’t paying sh******t when he takes the Iron Throne.. Iron Bank brah. But then maybe he will be paying sh*****t cos he don’t value worldly goods that most folk want to get their hands on.

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