The rumor have swirled for a while now . Various people who have worked on the show have dropped hints . But now David Benioff and D.B. Weiss , Game of Thrones ’ showrunners , have officially , irrevocably confirmed that we only have 15 episodes of the show leave … at most . in all probability less .
Here ’s Benioff during an audience withDeadlineabout Sunday ’s season six finale :
It ’s two more seasons we ’re talking about . From pretty tight to the source , we talked about doing this in 70 - 75 hour , and that ’s what we ’ll finish up with . Call it 73 for now .
While it ’s a bummer to know for sure that the show is that close to being over , Benioff make a compelling case for ending it sooner rather than later :
We ’re examine to tell one cohesive tale with a showtime , in-between and end . As Dan said , we ’ve known the end for quite some prison term and we ’re hurtling towards it . Those last images from the show that aired last night showed that . Daenerys is lastly coming back to Westeros ; Jon Snow is king of the North and Cersei is sitting on the Iron Throne . And we know the Night King is up there , waiting for all of them . The piece are on the board now . Some of the pieces have been removed from the board and we are guide toward the end biz .
The matter that has excited us from the origin , back to the manner we shift it to HBO is , it ’s not supposed to be an ongoing show , where every season it ’s trying to estimate out novel narrative lines . We require it to be one jumbo taradiddle , without padding it out to add an special 10 hours , or because citizenry are still find out it . We wanted to something where , if people watched it terminate to stop , it would make sensory faculty as one continuous report . We ’re definitely heading into the terminal game now .
I opine HBO , using the traditional rubbish dump trucks full of hard cash , could still win over Benioff and Weiss to extend the show to two full seasons , but here ’s the thing : If they were going to do that , I feel like they would have succeeded at it by now . Or if they were still negotiating , Benioff and Weiss would n’t be unambiguously announce that the last season would be shortened — they’d be cagey about it .
So that ’s it — only 13 episodes leave . Maybe 15 if we ’re lucky .
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