The show runners behind ‘Game of Thrones’ might be bending just slightly on their mandate that the series will end in seven seasons…
‘Game of Thrones’ season 5 will officially launch this weekend with another 10-episode season that will likely fly by quicker than you can imagine.
The toughest part about season 5 is at the end of episode 10, the show will only have two more seasons to go until it’s all over.
Now that’s going to make a lot of ‘Game of Thrones’ fans very sad, but there might be some good news on the horizon!
‘Game of Thrones’ show runners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have been the main two people sticking to their guns when saying that they’ve always envisioned the series running for seven seasons and no longer. The show is incredibly expensive to produce, not to mention the pain staking hours that go into making it, but the reason they want to end the series in seven seasons is because that’s just how long it will take to tell the full story.
“We’ve always said that, but we have to talk to HBO and come to an understanding,” Benioff told Rolling Stone about ending the show in seven seasons. “There’s a temptation to keep going with it because we’re still having fun, but you don’t want to ruin it by tacking on a couple of extra years.”
Weiss added on by saying that the heart of ‘Game of Thrones’ isn’t about a show that drags on for years and years and years just to appease any one section of the audience. The goal is to tell a genuine story and every story has to end at some point.
“The big thing is, this is a show with a beginning, a middle and an end. We know what the end is, and we’re heading toward it now,” Weiss said.
The good news about this is Benioff and Weiss agreeing that their story may extend out further than the standard 10-episode seasons they currently abide by each year.
There is a chance that with a final season, ‘Game of Thrones’ could extended out past 10-episodes so it would be like seven and a half seasons similar to what series like ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘The Sopranos’ did for their last days on air.
“We’re not sure whether it’s going to end up being, say, 70 or 75 hours — but it can’t be 100 hours,” Benioff stated. “It would start to feel like a bogged-down mess.”
‘Game of Thrones’ season 5 debuts this Sunday night at 9pm ET on HBO and stay tuned to Nerdcore Movement for recaps with each and every episode.
