Will Hbo Show Game of Thrones Series 1-8 Again
- Game of Thrones fans are mourning Kit Harington's beard
- Game of Thrones showrunners notwithstanding don't know how George RR Martin'due south books will finish
- Game of Thrones recap – where did we leave the characters ahead of the last series?
And so enter our Citadel of noesis, and gear up to expect out the coming storm. It shouldn't be likewise bad – if the White Walkers tin happily spend eight years walking very slowly towards the South, we can handle waiting a little longer for the next episode...
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When is Game of Thrones dorsum on Television receiver?
Game of Thrones will continue in the Us on Dominicus 21st Apr, simulcasting with a UK broadcast in the early hours of Monday 22nd April on Sky Atlantic. It will then be repeated in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland on Monday evening, and continue in this format for the following weeks.
How many episodes are there in season 8, and how long are they?
Just half dozen, sadly, in contrast to 2017's seven-episode run and the x-episode seasons we enjoyed from 2011-2016. Still, some of the episodes are supposedly longer than usual, so nosotros might not miss out on every bit much material equally you'd remember.
HBO has revealed that the opening episode (ambulation Sunday 14th Apr) will come up in at 54 minutes, while the second episode (Sun 21st April) will take a running time of 58 minutes, neither of which are particularly long, but it'southward rumoured that the tertiary episode will be a record-breaking 60 minutes and 20 minutes long, with the series' penultimate and last episodes besides granted a significantly extended runtime (though exact times for these episodes accept yet to exist confirmed).
"Season 8 episodes will all I call back be longer than 60 minutes," David Nutter, who directed 3 episodes of the terminal run, previously said in a reddit AMA.
"They'll exist dancing around the bigger numbers, I know that for sure."
Definitely more blindside for your buck - and according to one of the series stars, the bucks weren't in brusque supply for this final season.
"We spent twice as much shooting these six episodes than we did on two full seasons earlier," Nikolaj Coster-Waldau said at the Cannes Lions Festival.
"No expense has been spared. We've gone all in."
Is at that place a trailer for Game of Thrones season eight yet?
Yes, and you can picket it right hither. There was no fanfare when the trailer was released, with the show's Twitter business relationship but maxim, "The trailer is here".
More recently, HBO likewise released 2 "promos" for the serial that reveal some new clips, as we've discussed in more than detail here....
...and they likewise shared a teaser that appeared to show the bloody aftermath of a boxing at Winterfell (see below), where our favourite characters seem to have misplaced some of their nigh treasured accessories.
And that wasn't the merely moody teaser given to whet our appetites this yr, equally HBO had previously released a sneak peek of the flavour when it appear the release engagement back in Jan 2019. THIS brusque teaser sees 3 of the Stark children – Arya, Sansa and Jon Snow – reunite at the family crypt in Winterfell.
You can bank check out another sneak peek beneath, which sees a wave of ice from the north take over the dragon of House Targaryen and the Wolf of the Starks clash with a wave of burn from the due south (specifically, the king of beasts of the Lannisters).
- Game of Throne viewers have plenty of fan theories following season 8 teaser
Funnily enough, the presence of any trailers at all is slightly to the chagrin of the secretive showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss.
"I wish there were no trailers," Weiss told Amusement Weekly. "I simply want somebody to say, 'Trust me, go come across this.'"
Benioff added: "[David Lynch] was saying he wished at that place were no trailers, and information technology'due south true."
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What will happen in the series?
Every bit usual, secrecy is paramount, but given the bewilderment ending of the previous serial – where the Wall is brought down by the White Walkers and their undead dragon – it seems fair to assume flavor eight volition largely concern itself with the final boxing between the living and the dead, likewise as Cersei's (Lena Headey) attempts to double-cantankerous her new allies Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke).
And now it has been revealed that one episode this year will revolve around a huge battle at Winterfell between some of our favourite characters and the Army of the Dead, in what may exist the longest fight scene ever committed to film.
"What we have asked the production team and crew to do this year truly has never been done in television or in a movie," co-executive producer Bryan Cogman told EW.
"This final face up-off between the Army of the Expressionless and the army of the living is completely unprecedented and relentless and a mixture of genres even within the battle. There are sequences built within sequences built within sequences. David and Dan [wrote] an amazing puzzle and Miguel came in and took it apart and put information technology together again. It's been exhausting just I think it volition accident everybody abroad."
Elsewhere in the series, it seems likely that Cersei will recruit legendary mercenary army The Golden Company, a group who appeared in an unused storyline from George RR Martin's novels and who were referenced multiple times in season vii. Marc Rissman has reportedly been cast as the leader of The Golden Company, Harry Strickland.
It also seems likely the new episodes will explore Jon's true identity every bit the rightful Male monarch of Westeros, also every bit Theon Greyjoy'due south (Alfie Allen) attempts to rescue his sister Yara (Gemma Whelan) from the clutches of his evil uncle Euron (Pilou Asbaek).
"From a dramatic standpoint, it makes things interesting, considering the story is no longer well-nigh who Jon'south parents are," showrunner DB Weiss told TV Insider.
"It's about what happens when Jon finds out."
"Jon is someone who plays by the book. He cannot lie," added Harington.
"Finding out nearly Dany would be very hard for him."
And according to star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (who plays tainted knight Jaime Lannister in the series, pictured), the whole affair could leave a few characters existence turned to the side of the undead…
"You know some of the chief characters are going to become turned. At that place are going to be some blue-eyed main characters running around," he told Esquire.com when asked about the terminal flavour.
"And, god, I hope it'due south not me. That's three hours of brand-up in the forenoon. I know that if [Thrones showrunners] David Benioff and Dan Weiss read this, they'll go, 'Oh, yes nosotros will'."
"It'south going to be the greatest affair that's ever aired on TV," former cast member Jason Momoa told EW following a visit to the season eight set.
"It'southward going to be unbelievable. It's going to f*** up a lot of people."
Other rumours from filming include an epic boxing inside the Throne Room of Rex'southward Landing, the expiry of several major characters (which we won't mention hither in example it's truthful) and a shock execution that may go out audiences gasping. Oo-er.
How large are the battle scenes?
Well, pretty big – the same Battle of Winterfell (rumoured to be episode three of the series) ended up taking 11 weeks of dark shoots, with hundreds of people working for months in rural Ireland in freezing temperatures - and not all the 20-plus stars involved in the battle enjoyed information technology too much.
"It was the most unpleasant experience I've had on Thrones," Iain Glen, who plays Ser Jorah Mormont, said. "A real examination, really miserable. You get to sleep at seven in the morn and when you wake in the midday you're even so so spent yous tin can't actually do annihilation, and then yous're back. You lot have no life outside it. Y'all accept an absolute f—ked bunch of actors. Simply without getting likewise method [acting] about information technology, on screen information technology bleeds through to the reality of the Thrones world."
"The hard work pays off on this testify," Maisie Williams added. "After ane of those really tough days, you know it's going to be part of something and then iconic and it will look amazing."
Apparently the battle, rumoured to play out over a longest-ever 90 infinitesimal episode, volition also see the death of "beloved characters," so scout this infinite to encounter which of your favourites survives, and which of them starting time kickin' information technology with the Night King instead.
And of grade, this may non be the only battle of the series - rumour has it that another massive clash will occur in ane of the series' subsequently episodes, mayhap episode five given that "Battle of the Bastards" director Miguel Sapochnik is directing episodes 3 and 5 this year.
Equally for who may exist fighting in that afterward episode, well, nosotros can merely imagine information technology'll exist the White Walkers knocking on the door of King's Landing itself. Hither'south hoping Cersei kept a few pots of wildfire back for a rainy (or rather, icy) day.
How will Game of Thrones end?
Well, this is the meg dollar (or rather, rumoured 15 million-dollar-an-episode) question. We imagine the White Walkers will either be routed or emerge triumphant, and while we're hoping for the onetime, George RR Martin has always promised the terminate to his saga volition exist "bittersweet".
This may hateful that while our heroes may win, in that location volition be a terrible cost – possibly the life of 1 of our very favourite characters.
Sansa Stark actress Sophie Turner has described the ending as "incredibly emotional" and "very satisfying," while Harington too said it made him "actually emotional."
"I cried at the cease!" he told Alex Jones and Ricky Wilson on The One Prove. "We had the read-through concluding week, in fact, so I know everything now.
"Information technology wasn't anything particular that happens. You have to call back, I've done eight years of it. I recollect, no-one actually cares well-nigh [Game of Thrones] more than the states… It'due south been an institution longer than whatsoever other institution I've been in. Schoolhouse, drama schoolhouse, anything."
"We want people to dearest it," co-showrunner DB Weiss told EW. "It matters a lot to us.
"Nosotros've spent 11 years doing this. We also know no matter what we practise, even if it'south the optimal version, that a certain number of people will detest the all-time of all possible versions. There is no version where everybody says, 'I have to admit, I agree with every other person on the planet that this is the perfect fashion to do this' — that's an impossible reality that doesn't be. I'k hoping for the Breaking Bad [finale] argument where information technology's similar, 'Is that an A or an A+?'"
"From the offset we've talked about how the show would end," Benioff added. A good story isn't a good story if you have a bad ending. Of course we worry."
For other ideas about how information technology'll all end upwardly, bank check out our favourite theories here.
Which characters are returning?
All the lead actors (including Harington, Clarke, Headey, Peter Dinklage and Coster-Waldau) are ready to return alongside the likes of regulars Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Liam Cunningham, Rory McCann and many many more (with quite a few of them spotted by fans arriving in Belfast for filming).
Basically, there will be no unexpected absences, and if you lot tin can call back of one of the 6 billion characters in Westeros that are still live, they'll probably be in in that location (except maybe Indira Varma's Ellaria Sand, who doesn't appear to be back post-obit her imprisonment in the last series).
Less clear, though, are the fates of fan-favourite characters Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) and Beric Dondarrian (Richard Dormer), who were manning the icy Wall earlier it was at to the lowest degree partially destroyed by the White Walkers.
"I do know [whether I'll be involved] but I have been told not to say – considering it would give away whether Beric Dondarrion survives the collapse of The Wall," Dormer told RadioTimes.com last twelvemonth.
Fingers crossed they arrive back, if only and then Tormund can finally pursue his love for Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie).
Sadly, however, nosotros've at present received word that one character WON'T be returning, having been murdered horribly offscreen - Ser Pounce, aka the pet true cat of Male monarch Tommen (RIP). Is no-i condom???
What else are the actors saying nearly the new series?
All sorts! Especially when information technology comes to their individual characters' concluding scenes...
"I feel very, very... I'm trying to detect the correct give-and-take," Peter Dinklage said. "I recollect [Tyrion] was given a very good determination. No matter what that is —decease can be a great way out."
"I ended on the perfect scene," Maisie Williams told The Guardian. "I was alone – shocker! Arya'southward ever encarmine alone."
"But I was solitary and I had watched a lot of other people wrap. I knew the drill, I had seen the tears and heard the speeches."
"It's over and I cried like a baby on the final twenty-four hour period," Emilia Clarke told The Daily Post. "I felt completely lost."
She connected: "10 years is a long fourth dimension. It'due south similar losing an actual limb. I was 22 – a kid – when I first walked on the Game of Thrones gear up. I grew up with [Daenerys]."
"I cried at the end!" Kit Harington said on The 1 Show.
"It wasn't anything particular that happens. You lot have to think, I've done viii years of it. I retrieve, no-one really cares about [Game of Thrones] more united states of america… Information technology'southward been an institution longer than whatever other institution I've been in. School, drama school, anything."
Get the tissues ready, folks...
Who else is directing the series?
David Nutter, who directed a number of Thrones episodes from 2012 to 2015 including fan-favourite The Rains of Castamere (aka the Red Wedding episode) volition exist taking the reins for season eight's first, second and fourth episodes, while showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss are making their official directorial debut (having previously worked on the episodes "Two Swords" and "Walk of Punishment" every bit private directors) with the very last instalment of the serial.
Guess they want to make sure that one comes off merely right.
Are in that location any new pictures?
Yes, absolutely loads - HBO released a whole cache of season 8 images in February, many of which you will have seen in this article. For more, y'all can meet a pretty large collection here.
The channel also released a brand new poster on 21st March, featuring a very clever redesign of what at first appears to be the Atomic number 26 Throne. Expand the image to run across what we hateful...
What's that? You want more than arty depictions of the Iron Throne in poster class? Fine, fine, you lot twisted our arm - and expert luck trying to find clues in the bodies beneath...
What will I spotter when Game of Thrones is over?
Nosotros're certain you'll notice something - there'due south an awful lot of Thrones-inspired medieval-y series out there nowadays - just in the firsthand backwash, fans of the series volition be able to lookout man a special making-of documentary on Dominicus 26th/Monday 27th May, the week afterwards the series finale airs.
Chosen Game of Thrones: The Terminal Picket, the 2-hour documentary will testify fans exactly what information technology took to bring Westeros to life, and is described as an "upwards-close and personal study from the trenches of production, following the crew and the bandage as they contend with extreme atmospheric condition, punishing deadlines and an ever-excited fandom hungry for spoilers.
"Much more than than a 'making of' documentary" HBO added, "this is a funny, heartbreaking story, told with wit and intimacy, about the bittersweet pleasures of what information technology ways to create a world — and then take to say good day to information technology."
The one-off episode has been made by British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay, and will air on Sky Atlantic in the Great britain in the usual Game of Thrones slot, aka 2am on the Monday morning time followed by an evening repeat at 9.00pm.
How are they keeping information technology all a secret?
In contempo years the security around Game of Thrones has become tighter and tighter, and this time in an attempt to stave off the usual set leaks (collated by fans on reddit over the last few series) HBO president of programming Casey Bloys has revealed that multiple endings will be filmed to prevent spoilers from leaking ahead of the finale.
Meanwhile, star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has suggested the cast aren't having scripts at all this year, instead using an odd method to deliver their lines.
"The beginning flavour we got the scripts like you should become them and then y'all could sit down and exercise notes and stuff," he said on the Scandinavian talk prove Skavlan. "And and then after a couple of years, they got paranoid because there was some leaks so we had to get them just digital, on a PDF file."
"At present nosotros're not even going to get the script. Now we are going to do a scene, nosotros will be told what'due south going to happen and then nosotros whorl. We're all going to take earpieces for the scene and then someone's going to tell you the line then you lot're going to exercise the line."
Coster Waldau is of course joking almost that last part and those other accounts should probably be taken with a compression of salt besides – HBO previously claimed to have filmed fake scenes for flavour seven in an attempt to discredit genuine on-prepare photos – merely after terminal year's tempest of leaks and hacks, we tin definitely be certain HBO are taking things even more seriously this time.
"The secrecy is crazy," Sophie Turner told Vulture. "We take a whole different name for it when we're shooting it. I retrieve this season information technology was like The Tree of Life or something."
Turner too explained that they even take a "drone killer" that disables any drones attempting to fly over the gear up.
"I don't know how it does it. It creates like this field effectually and the drones but drop," Turner said. (And yes, at that place is such thing as a Drone Privacy Shield. The more y'all know.)
She added: "Likewise, we shoot fake scenes. We got into costume in Croatia considering we know the paparazzi lurk around in that location, so we would spend similar half a twenty-four hour period doing nothing."
Whether all these precautions hateful this page volition remain adequately blank fifty-fifty when the series is airing, well, only fourth dimension volition tell. For now but lookout the skies, and call up that nighttime wings bring dark words – and the odd plot spoiler.
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