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Game of Thrones Season 8 Could Be Delayed Until 2019, But All Movie-Length
While Game of Thrones Season 8 could still be delayed until 2019, there is also a chance each episode could be feature-length!
NEWSDavid Crow
Jul 3, 2017
In news that is unlikely to surprise any of the Westerosi faithful,
Game of Thrones will meet the Many-Faced God of TV Death with season 8... and it will only enjoy six episodes at that.
Casey Bloys, HBO president of programming,
confirmed to EW in July 2016 that season 8 will be the final year, as showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss had long stated was their intention. And showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss confirmed in March 2017 that
Game of Thrones season 8 will continue to the letter of that original plan and end the series with six final weekly installments.
“It’s only going to be six episodes for the final season,” Benioff said during a featured speaker at SXSW panel. “From the beginning we’ve wanted to tell a 70-hour movie. It will turn out to be a 73-hour movie, but it’s stayed relatively the same of having the beginning, middle and now we’re coming to the end. It would have been really tough if we lost any core cast members along the way, I’m very happy we’ve kept everyone and we get to finish it the way we want to.”
But now perhaps the most fearful news yet...
Game of Thrones season 8 could potentially not air until 2019. Still, it is not all doom and gloom. Consider the latest bit of intel that suggests every episode could be movie-length.
Latest Game of Thrones Season 8 News
While Den of Geek was unable to attend this year's Con of Thrones, many fans were, and one revealed that in addition to the season 7 finale being 82 minutes (meaning it's the longest episode in the series' history), the entirety of Game of Thrones season 8 could also be feature-length. We are talking about 80 minutes, 90 minutes, or more. It might even make a possible year-delay worthwhile...
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Fairfield just said the Season 7 finale of GAME OF THRONES will be 82 mins. Final season they're considering making each ep feature length!
Game of Thrones Season 8 Release Date
While chatting with HBO about the final seasons of
Game of Thrones,
Entertainment Weekly learned from Casey Bloys that the eighth season might not air until 2019 instead of its expected summer 2018 bow.
When
EW asked if a 2019 premiere date is a possibility, Bloys said, "Yeah. They have to write the episodes and figure out the production schedule. We’ll have a better sense of that once they get further into the writing."
While this could mean nothing, given that
EW is the outlet with nigh exclusive access to
Game of Thrones' production in its later years, and that editor James Hibberd brought this question up by himself, it is also probable this is the first rollout of the prospect to get fans adjusted to the idea of a
truly long wait for the final episodes. And then they make it official after season 7...
On the upside, we were at the San Diego Comic-Con panel last year
where Miguel Sapochnik hinted he’d be back for season 8,and Dan Weiss nodded his head in approval. We wouldn’t be shocked if he directs an unusually high number of the episodes for that season after filming the double whammy of "The Battle of the Bastards" and "The Winds of Winter" in season 6's final two episodes.