Game of Thrones will likely end after seven or eight seasons, according to the TV show's creators.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss revealed they don't want to drag the show out any longer just for the sake of it.
"It doesn’t just keep on going because it can,” Weiss explains. “I think the desire to milk more out of it is what would eventually kill it, if we gave in to that."
It doesn’t just keep on going because it can. I think the desire to milk more out of it is what would eventually kill it, if we gave in to that.
Of course, one of the biggest concerns many have is the fact that the show is rapidly catching up with the books. Can George R. R. Martin get the concluding tomes out in time, before the showrunners need to figure out a way to put it on our screens?
Apparently, it's a concern Benioff and Weiss share, branding it "alarming" and explaining that while characters like Arya are still meant to be 11 years of age in the books, the nature of making a TV show means actors and actresses like Maisie Williams are now growing up. All is not lost, however. Apparently the writers have been told how the books will end, and every characters' fate in case they catch up or something should happen to Martin.
"Last year we went out to Santa Fe for a week to sit down with him [Martin] and just talk through where things are going, because we don’t know if we are going to catch up and where exactly that would be," explained Benioff. "If you know the ending, then you can lay the groundwork for it. And so we want to know how everything ends. We want to be able to set things up. So we just sat down with him and literally went through every character.”
Hopefully it won't be an issue, as Martin believes he should finish the final volumes before the show needs them. "I can give them the broad strokes of what I intend to write, but the details aren’t there yet. I’m hopeful that I can not let them catch up with me,” he said.
One other interesting tidbit from the interview is that those rumours about President Obama getting advanced screenings of all the new episodes appear to be true. "One perk of being the most powerful man in the world: yes, you get to see episodes early,” the duo revealed.
Season 4 of Game of Thrones begins very soon indeed, while a video game companion is expected from Telltale at some stage in the future.
Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Junior Editor. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on Twitter.
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