Game of Thrones will end After 8 Seasons. Or Will it?

Yeah, it probably will

Game of Thrones has two more confirmed seasons in the pipeline, though when they will air is more of a question than it has ever been before. We’ve known for a while that the seventh season will contain on seven episodes, and that season eight will be short as well. During the TCA press tour, HBO’s Casey Bloys talked about the end of Game of Thrones. He’d like some more, please.

Officially, Game of Thrones will end after eight seasons, to HBO’s chagrin:

"“Believe me, as the new [programming executive] coming in, if I could get them to do more. I would take 10 more seasons. But we take their lead on what they think they can do the best version of the show.”"

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It’s understandable that Bloys would want to keep HBO on the air for as long as possible — that’s what led to season eight existing in the first place. But that doesn’t mean that Game of Thrones will technically be over. It is, after all, one of the biggest and most profitable shows of all time. It’s hard to let go of that. To that end, Bloys says that they haven’t ruled out a spinoff of some sort:

"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]…The guys weren’t opposed to it, but there’s no concrete plans for it at this point.”"

Even after Game of Thrones ends after two more seasons, that doesn’t mean the series will actually technically be over. There are a lot of different spinoff ideas that they could explore, including making some sort of prequel. There is a lot of history to Westeros that we never get to see on-screen, and seeing some of it played out on HBO wouldn’t be the worst thing.

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HBO is going to try to figure out how to keep Game of Thrones around for as long as possible. As long as any potential spinoff project is quality and has the blessing or involvement of the original team — such as the brilliant Better Call Saul — you won’t hear any complains from us.

Via: Entertainment Weekly