From the plot of the first episode (expect spoilers ahead) and its air date to what the battle between the living and the dead is actually going to look like
BY Mac kobbi
It's official, season 8 will begin on 15 April 2019
After more than a year of speculative agony, HBO has finally revealed that the final, six episode-long season of
Game Of Thrones will start on Monday 15 April on Sky Atlantic. Entitled “Crypts of Winterfell”, the first official trailer ran on TV just before the third season of True Detective . Up until now, we'd only been privy to one measly promotional video, so the ensuing internet meltdown was to be expected. The 1:30 clip shows Jon Snow (Kit Harington), Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and Arya Stark (Masie Williams) in the crypt under their ancestral home, with a voiceover from Catelyn Stark - who was killed off in the " Red Wedding" episode back in season three almost five years ago - that, taken from a conversation she had with Robb Stark's wife back in refers to Jon Snow's real lineage ("The horror that's come to my family, it's all because I couldn't love a motherless child").
The final battle will be bigger and more epic than you can even imagine
The final fight with the Army of the Dead looks set to be the biggest and most sustained action scene ever made for any TV series or film, with one entire episode directed by Miguel Sapochnik, the man behind the “Battle Of The Bastards”, dedicated to solid action. It took 55 nights to film the outdoor battle scenes at Winterfell alone, followed by weeks in the studio to wrap it up. And, as always with Game Of Thrones, there'll be sub-plots galore, with the focus shifting to different characters at different points within the battle. As producer David Benioff told Entertainment Weekly , “Having the largest battle doesn’t sound very exciting — it actually sounds pretty boring. Part of our challenge, and really Miguel’s challenge, is how to keep that compelling… we’ve been building toward this since the very beginning, it’s the living against the dead and you can’t do that in a 12-minute sequence.”
The final season could have been made into three feature-length films
It's not just the battle that's going to be mind-blowingly ambitious, with EW 's report stating that, for the final season, everything, right down to the costumes, is going to be bigger and better. Even the Winterfell set has been drastically expanded. In fact, the upcoming season is set to be so expansive that at one point, the producers, Benioff and DB Weiss – who are currently working on a new Star Wars film and took advice from the director and producer of The Last Jedi for series eight – thought that it could be split into three feature-length films. The set report details how, back in 2012, the pair was so worried about getting the necessary budget from HBO they suggested this as a way to get the time and money they needed to pull of the finale they had always planned. Given the monstrous success of the show however, HBO vetoed this idea and gave the pair a budget of $15 million per episode for season 8. And it's just as well, because both cast and crew are promising six episodes that leave the show on the strongest note possible, so that their audience is left in a perpetual state of wanting more. Brilliant or excruciating? We'll find out some time in the spring
It will definitely air before May 2019
Season 8 will hit screens some time in the first half 2019. An exact premiere date has yet to be announced, but anxiety-riddled rumours that the season might be delayed have been put to bed after it was reported that HBO will run all six episodes before the 2019 Emmy cut-off date of 31 May 2019. This means that the premiere will have to be shown no later than 21 April, which mirrors all but one of the previous seven season premieres.
But the budget is mighty
Specifically: £11.2 million per episode (compared to Game Of Thrones's average £5 million per episode) breezily topping The Crown ’s budget of $100m for two seasons, which weighs in at about $5m or £3.7m per Netflix episode (previously the most expensive season budget in history)
The season is hack proof
To stop hackers from spoiling the end, a plan has been devised: HBO’s president of programming Casey Bloys announced several different endings will be shot in an effort to prevent hackers from ruining the finale. Bloys has said, “You have to do that on a long show. Because when you’re shooting something, people know. So, they’re going to shoot multiple versions so that there’s no real definitive answer until the end.”
BY Mac kobbi
It's official, season 8 will begin on 15 April 2019
After more than a year of speculative agony, HBO has finally revealed that the final, six episode-long season of
Game Of Thrones will start on Monday 15 April on Sky Atlantic. Entitled “Crypts of Winterfell”, the first official trailer ran on TV just before the third season of True Detective . Up until now, we'd only been privy to one measly promotional video, so the ensuing internet meltdown was to be expected. The 1:30 clip shows Jon Snow (Kit Harington), Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and Arya Stark (Masie Williams) in the crypt under their ancestral home, with a voiceover from Catelyn Stark - who was killed off in the " Red Wedding" episode back in season three almost five years ago - that, taken from a conversation she had with Robb Stark's wife back in refers to Jon Snow's real lineage ("The horror that's come to my family, it's all because I couldn't love a motherless child").
It picks up where season seven left off - the Army of the Dead have traversed the wall and, from the look of that ominous chill, have already made their way to Winterfell - and, in typical GoT -style is jam-packed with cryptic clues. s well as Catelyn, there's also voiceover from Lyanna Stark (Jon Snow's real mother) and Ned Stark (AKA Sean Bean, Snow's once-presumed father, now known to the viewer as his biological uncle). All their quotes refer to Snow's secret Targaryen identity. The trio stare at statues of themselves, which may or may not mean that they are in fact, dead. The first episode will air in Britain and the US simultaneously, meaning that the American date is actually 15 April. Let the 23 day countdown commence.
The plot of the first episode
In an almost unbearably tantalising long read on the final season of Game Of Thrones , Entertainment Weekly has reported that the first episode takes place at Winterfell. It's going to be littered with references back to the first-season pilot, with Daenerys ( Emilia Clarke ) and her army's arrival at the Starks’ ancestral home echoing King Robert and his procession's approach almost a decade ago. But Daenerys, whose appearance at Winterfell it seems Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) is going to be seething over, is not the only new face in the north. Characters who have never met before will prepare for the Invasion of the Dead side by side with characters who already share complex histories.
The final fight with the Army of the Dead looks set to be the biggest and most sustained action scene ever made for any TV series or film, with one entire episode directed by Miguel Sapochnik, the man behind the “Battle Of The Bastards”, dedicated to solid action. It took 55 nights to film the outdoor battle scenes at Winterfell alone, followed by weeks in the studio to wrap it up. And, as always with Game Of Thrones, there'll be sub-plots galore, with the focus shifting to different characters at different points within the battle. As producer David Benioff told Entertainment Weekly , “Having the largest battle doesn’t sound very exciting — it actually sounds pretty boring. Part of our challenge, and really Miguel’s challenge, is how to keep that compelling… we’ve been building toward this since the very beginning, it’s the living against the dead and you can’t do that in a 12-minute sequence.”
It's not just the battle that's going to be mind-blowingly ambitious, with EW 's report stating that, for the final season, everything, right down to the costumes, is going to be bigger and better. Even the Winterfell set has been drastically expanded. In fact, the upcoming season is set to be so expansive that at one point, the producers, Benioff and DB Weiss – who are currently working on a new Star Wars film and took advice from the director and producer of The Last Jedi for series eight – thought that it could be split into three feature-length films. The set report details how, back in 2012, the pair was so worried about getting the necessary budget from HBO they suggested this as a way to get the time and money they needed to pull of the finale they had always planned. Given the monstrous success of the show however, HBO vetoed this idea and gave the pair a budget of $15 million per episode for season 8. And it's just as well, because both cast and crew are promising six episodes that leave the show on the strongest note possible, so that their audience is left in a perpetual state of wanting more. Brilliant or excruciating? We'll find out some time in the spring
Kit Harington has just dropped hints about the ending
During an interview promoting his new film, The Death And Life Of John F. Donovan, Kit Harington suggested that fans might not be happy with the season 8 finale, drawing comparisons between Game Of Thrones and series with notoriously controversial endings. "My favourite TV shows are Sopranos , Breaking Bad and The Wire , and they all ended in a way that didn’t satisfy you," he told MTV News. "I think a TV series that’s spanned eight, nine years is an incredibly difficult thing to end... I think not everyone’s going to be happy, you know, and you can’t please everyone." But don't be too disheartened: the wrap-up won't necessarily be a damp squib. Fellow stars Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) have called the ending "surprising" and "unpredictable". "I was satisfied with how unpredictable the show’s ending really is," Turner said in an interview with Digital Spy. "I think that the fans will be satisfied with that, too". Beyond this, Harington also recently suggested that there could well be some revisions in the works, despite filming finishing earlier this year. The actor says he's under strict instruction from HBO to keep his signature shaggy mane and beard, incase Jon Snow is needed for re-shoots.
You can get a sneaky first look
HBO has teased new footage from Game Of Thrones season 8 in a roundup of the channel’s new programming for 2019. Look carefully at every video on Instagram and you’ll see Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) hugging Sansa (Sophie Turner) at Winterfell. Sure, it’s short, but it suggests that the siblings will be reunited some time soon, despite season 7 ending with Snow and Daenerys (Clarke) on route to White Harbour (remember that scene on the boat, where Snow’s true identity is revealed by Bran via voiceover at exactly the same time as his bare behind?).
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This tiny clip also proves that the King Of The North will be returning to his ancestral home before long. Which is probably just as well, given that the wall has fallen and the Night King’s monstrous army is shuffling its way down south. Eagle-eyed fans (who, by the way, are running riot in the comments section, should you fancy a deep-dive into the internet wormhole that is multifarious GoT theories) have been quick to point out that no, this is not the hug from season 7, but definitely brand-new footage, as well as the markedly different look in Sansa’s eyes this embrace around. And one thing’s for sure - she does not look happy. Perhaps Snow has brought an unwelcome visitor (or wife, dare we speculate) back to Winterfell...
Production is finished
Filming for the final season wrapped in early July, last year with trusty fan site Watchers On The Wall (read: mega-blog for total and utter GoT nerds, many of us here at MFZ included) reporting that the last official day of filming was 6 July 2018. Masie Williams, aka Arya Stark, posted a photo of bloody Nike trainers with the caption “Goodbye
Belfast . goodbye Arya. Goodbye Game Of Thrones . What a joy i’ve had. Here’s to the adventures to come #lastwomanstanding #barely”. As with everything in Westeros, it seems here that the devil is in the detail. What are those cryptic hashtags? Is Arya Stark really the last woman standing? Will every other major character die? The anticipation is real.
Season 8 will hit screens some time in the first half 2019. An exact premiere date has yet to be announced, but anxiety-riddled rumours that the season might be delayed have been put to bed after it was reported that HBO will run all six episodes before the 2019 Emmy cut-off date of 31 May 2019. This means that the premiere will have to be shown no later than 21 April, which mirrors all but one of the previous seven season premieres.
The episodes are fewer and longer
We’re expecting six feature-length episodes, anywhere between one or two hours each. This is both good news and bad. On the one hand, we get more of what we want, rammed into bigger budget film-style episodes, but on the other hand, it’ll be over before we know it.
Specifically: £11.2 million per episode (compared to Game Of Thrones's average £5 million per episode) breezily topping The Crown ’s budget of $100m for two seasons, which weighs in at about $5m or £3.7m per Netflix episode (previously the most expensive season budget in history)
To stop hackers from spoiling the end, a plan has been devised: HBO’s president of programming Casey Bloys announced several different endings will be shot in an effort to prevent hackers from ruining the finale. Bloys has said, “You have to do that on a long show. Because when you’re shooting something, people know. So, they’re going to shoot multiple versions so that there’s no real definitive answer until the end.”
Which means nobody has a clue how it will end
Prepare for an onslaught of whimsical fan theories. What if Brandon Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright ) is actually the Night King because he went back in time to help stop the war between mankind and the Children of the Forest? And what if Jon Snow has to kill Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) to defeat the White Walkers? You didn’t think there was going to be a happy ending, did you?
What we do know is that Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbaek) is definitely going to kick the bucket. Asbaek said it himself. And he’s not the only one. According to a prophecy in season seven, episode three, Melisandre (Carice van Houten) and Varys (Conleth Hill) are destined to return to Westeros to die before the show ends. And speaking of prophecies, do you remember that one from the beginning of season five? Cersei will die at the hands of her brother. Whether that’s Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) or Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) in disguise, nobody knows.
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