Yahoo News Game of Thrones' season 8 may have 6 feature-length eps
The seventh and penultimate season of Game of Thrones is almost here, and already information about the show's eighth and final season is beginning to surface.
It was previously confirmed that season 7 will contain the series' longest episode to date, which is currently coming in at nearly an hour-and-a-half, and there may be more where that came from.
GoT's sound designer Paula Fairfield teased season eight plans at this weekend's Con of Thrones fan convention in Nashville.
According to those present, Fairfield said series creators David Benioff and DB Weiss may make all six episodes of the show's final season feature-length.
Fairfield just said the Season 7 finale of GAME OF THRONES will be 82 mins. Final season they're considering making each ep feature length!
- David Chen (@davechensky) July 1, 2017
As well as being incredibly exciting, this is also pretty significant news, because – if this does turn out to be true – it would mean time-wise we'd be getting near enough another full season.
Mind games, people. Mind games.
Assuming all six episodes of season eight are feature-length, this would put its total running time at around nine hours.
Which, of course, is not far off the same time bracket all the current GoT seasons fall into.
This wouldn't be the first time a TV show has tried something this ambitious either, as series such as Black Mirror and Sherlock have run (quite successfully) with feature-length runtimes in the past.
That settles it. The golden age of TV is officially upon us.
Game of Thrones returns to HBO on Sunday, July 16 and Monday, July 17 on Sky Atlantic in the UK.
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