Game Of Thrones Will End After Season 8

 

HBO’s Casey Bloys confirmed that Game of Thrones will end after its planned eighth season – though there’s, as one might expect given the size of the show, a lingering possibility of spinoffs. It had previously been announced that the upcoming seventh season of the series would only comprise seven episodes, which fueled rumours that HBO was plotting a Breaking Bad-esque conclusion to the highly acclaimed fantasy, splitting one final fight to the finish over two shorter seasons. Turns out, there was truth to that – though Bloys also noted that he’s not certain of the episode count for the eighth season.

Bloys said the plan to wind the show down has been in the works for a while, and praised showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff for their commitment to maintaining a high level of quality throughout the show’s run. Bloys said “Weiss and Benioff have a very specific plan about the number of seasons they want to do. If I could get them to do more, I would take 10 more seasons. We take their lead on how they think they can do the best version of the show.”

Game of Thrones has already overtaken its source material, which means it will likely be more up to Weiss and Beinoff than to George R.R. Martin how the show ultimately sails off into the sunset. That also means that, if HBO and those involved with its conception were, ahem, game, audiences may have many more years of Westeros-set adventures to come.