The number of episodes for the last cycle has not been determined, according to HBO programming chief Casey Bloys.
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“Yes, I think [showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff] have a very specific plan about the number of seasons they want to do”, Bloys revealed. ‘Believe me, (…) if I could get them to do more.
With a previous announcement that season seven and eight will be truncated – only seven episodes each, instead of the earlier 10 – what fans are looking at is a total of 14 episodes of GoT before the remaining members of the cast take their curtain call.
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That’s a sensible approach, rather than dragging it out for the sake of more money, and means the showrunners get to tell the story the way they want to.
Bloys explained “it will be simple animation… but it does allow him to respond fairly quickly to what’s going on in the day’s news…” “It’s something I’m not opposed to, but of course it has to make sense creatively. I’m not sure that [Benioff and Weiss] could really wrap their heads around it when they’re just about to start production [on season 7]”.
Recently HBO renewed the series – adapted from George R.R. Martin’s novels – for a shortened seventh season consisting of seven episodes. Bloys said that he is open to the idea of a spin-off and the producers are not opposed to it.
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After third season it was the second most-viewed show on HBO and people love it so much they even named their kids after the characters. Whatever form it takes, whenever it does happen, a spinoff seems inevitable.
