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The eighth and final season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones was confirmed by HBO in July 2016. Unlike the first six seasons that all consisted of ten episodes, the eighth season will consist of only six episodes. Like the previous season, it will largely consist of original content currently not found in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, but also adapts material from the upcoming sixth and seventh novels The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring. The series is adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.

The season will begin filming in September 2017.

Production

Crew

Series creators and executive producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss will serve as showrunners for the eighth season. The writing staff for the eighth season includes Benioff and Weiss, producer Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill. Author George R. R. Martin, who had written one episode for each of the first four seasons, will not write an episode for the eighth season, as he will be working to finish writing the A Song of Ice and Fire novels.

Writing

Writing for the eighth season startet with an 140-page outline. Benioff said that the divvying up process and what section who should write become more difficult, being that "this would be the last time that we would be doing this."

Filming

Filming will begin in September 2017 according to actor Liam Cunningham. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, HBO programming president Casey Bloys said that the final season could air in 2018 or later in 2019, adding that the they have to figure out the production schedule for this "extremely cinematic" finale season first. Bloys stated that instead of the series finale being a feature film, the final season would be "six one-hour movies" on televion. He continued, "The show has proven that TV is every bit as impressive and in many cases more so, than film. What they’re doing is monumental."

Episodes

In an interview with co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, it was said that the seventh and eighth season would likely consist of fewer episodes, stating at the time of the interview that they were "down to our final 13 episodes after this season. We're heading into the final lap." Benioff and Weiss stated that they were unable to produce 10 episodes in the show's usual 12 to 14 month time frame, as Weiss said "It's crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid-range movie schedule." HBO confirmed on July 18, 2016, that the seventh season would consist of seven episodes, and would premiere later than usual in mid-2017 because of the later filming schedule. Later Benioff and Weiss confirmed that the eighth season will consist of six episode and is expected to premier later than usual for the same reason.

Benioff and Weiss spoke about the end of the show, saying, "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."

Music

Ramin Djawadi is set to return as the composer of the show for the eighth season.

References

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External links

• Game of Thrones – official US site
• Game of Thrones – official UK site
• Game of Thrones – The Viewers Guide on HBO.com
• Making Game of Thrones on HBO.com
• Game of Thrones at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com episodes

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