When will HBO air the final Game of Thrones season?
That’s been the question on just about everyone’s mind since the seventh season came to an end this past summer. The eighth and final Game of Thrones season will bring HBO’s most popular series to an end with the promise of being the show’s most cinematic installment yet. To allow for additional writing and production time, HBO hinted that Game of Thrones may not return until 2019. There was some hope that Game of Thrones could return in 2018, but a new interview with Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on the show, seems to confirm that’s not the case.

“Game of Thrones comes out in 2019,” Turner told Variety. “Dark Phoenix [Turner’s X-Men movie] is in November. Then I have a couple indie movies coming out. I’m a producer on my next movie [Girl Who Fell From the Sky]. So I’m really excited about the future.”

HBO’s president of programming, Casey Bloys, told reporters in June during a television conference the premiere date decision would come down to how much time the writing team needed. They had to allocate time to figure out how to end the series and how much resources the production team needed to ensure their vision was reached.

“They have to write the episodes and figure out the production schedule,” Bloys said. “We’ll have a better sense of that once they get further into the writing.”

Though Game of Thrones’ eighth season will contain the fewest episodes (just six in total), each episode is expected to run approximately an hour and a half in length, making it just as long as previous seasons. Four directors will return to helm the final episodes: Miguel Sapochnik, David Nutter, and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who will direct the finale.

Polygon has reached out to HBO for more information.

Update: An HBO representative told Polygon the network could not confirm an air date at this time.

They are honoring GRRM by waiting an extra year.

Heh. I was thinking the same thing. The procrastinating prick is rubbing off on everybody else.

ROFL

LMAO

Yes, I know, Game of Thrones season 8 isn’t coming until 2019. While we still (maybe) have another winter to get through before we reach the promised land of the final six episodes, we now know who will be directing each episode, and in what order. The Red Wedding and Battle of the Bastards directors have a huge role to play – so expect deaths, dragons and battles. Lots of battles.


Winter is Coming have worked out the directing order for each episode, which is as follows: Episodes 1, 2, and 4 will be directed by The Winds of Castamere (aka the Red Wedding) director David Nutter. Meanwhile, episodes 3 and 5 are placed in the very capable hands of Miguel Sapochnik, of Battle of the Bastards fame. The sixth episode, the season finale, will be helmed by showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss themselves.

This makes me want to vomit

Why?

He’s a Russian bot lol, they’re both ‘dumbocrats’ I’d guess? No logical reason I can surmise

A whole year more of waiting of course

ToS Violation

Safe space much?

2019? ****!!!

Don't worry, you can rest easy knowing Winds will still not be out by then.

I just hope it's early 2019. If it's fall or later that's just too long. But not like we have a choice but to wait.