‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Won’t Premiere Until 2019

Agent Coulson

Sophie Turner Reveals ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Won’t Premiere Until 2019

Sophie Turner has confirmed our worst fear: “Game of Thrones” Season 8 won’t premiere until 2019. The actress behind Sansa Stark revealed to Variety that HBO’s Emmy-winning fantasy epic will skip 2018 and debut its six-episode final season sometime in 2019. HBO has not confirmed a release date for Season 8, but the show was widely expected to return in either 2019 or late 2018 considering production on the show will last through summer 2018.

“Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss previously told Entertainment Weekly they were planning to spend at least a year and a half making the final season, which made the 2019 launch date all but certain given that production kicked off in October of this year. HBO has already revealed that Miguel Sapochnik and David Nutter will be returning to the series to direct the final episodes along with Benioff and Weiss. Each episode is rumored to be feature-length.

The 2019 premiere date actually works to HBO’s advantage when it comes to awards. Season 7 missed the Emmys deadline this year, which means the latest batch of episodes will be contending for awards at the 2018 Emmys next fall. With the final season reportedly set for a 2019 debut, HBO will have two more years to conquer the Emmys with “Game of Thrones.”

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/game-of-thrones-season8-release-date-sophie-turner-1201904782/

theteal

I thought this was well known for quite a while now

alchemist33

It doesn't work to our advantage. The longest wait yet for the shortest season yet. That's pretty unbalanced.

duffman13

To be honest id rather they take there time with with it and do ot justice. Im disappointed ive to wait longer but I just hope its worth the wait

Roger Hassenforder

I'll surely have the books finished by then.

Maybe not.

TheIrishGrover

alchemist33 wrote: »

It doesn't work to our advantage. The longest wait yet for the shortest season yet. That's pretty unbalanced.

Welcome to the world of the reader.......

TheIrishGrover

duffman13 wrote: »

To be honest id rather they take there time with with it and do ot justice. Im disappointed ive to wait longer but I just hope its worth the wait

Welcome to the world of the FRUSTRATED reader.....

5starpool

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

I'll surely have the books finished by then.

Maybe not.

Gives GRRM an extra 1% chance to get the next book published before the last season of the show. It now stands at an overall chance of 1%. The last book might be out in 10 years time. It's a bit of a stretch though.

biggebruv

Surely it’s gonna premiere in April 2019 that’s always been GOTs starting month if so we just a year away now yay lol

Think they are finished filming in August that gives a good 7-8 months post production time

Liam McPoyle

Just saw something on Facebook that said each episode will be 2 hours long for the final season but I can't find the dang post again.

biggebruv

Business Cat wrote: »

Just saw something on Facebook that said each episode will be 2 hours long for the final season but I can't find the dang post again.

Facebook never a good source

I reckon 90 mins for most eps with the final being 2hours

blackwave

Business Cat wrote: »

Just saw something on Facebook that said each episode will be 2 hours long for the final season but I can't find the dang post again.

I seen that as but it was just a photo on a fan page but with no actual source for it. So not going to trust that.

biggebruv

Soooo Filming has wraped that leaves July to March for post production 9 months surely an April start is a sure thing cannot wait hope they confirm something soon

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Hopefully they go mid February to early March. NFL finishes February 3rd which would be their main competition on Sunday nights.

biggebruv

Sfx producer has basically come out and let slip the final season won't air till at least summer so that April start is out of the question now I guess late july like season 7 will be the release date if that's true Summer 2019 is gonna be awesome for me so many epic stuff to look forward too

Stranger things 3
Game of thrones
Infinity war part 2
Toy story 4
Last of us 2 (fingers crossed but first launched in the summer so im hopeful lol)

Falthyron

April 2019.

https://twitter.com/GameOfThrones/status/1062359268203077633

Agent Coulson

I can't see the Twitter video in link above for some reason.

Youtube of it here.

biggebruv

Sweet Jesus yes at least it’s confirmed now no more limbo lol.

Next year gonna be great
game of thrones
stranger things 3
Breaking bad movie
Walking dead movie

Agent Coulson

New teaser

Sonics2k

Strangely enough the new teaser trailer is really flying under the social media radar. It's been massively overshadowed by some other trailers and it doesn't appear to have done much to increase the hype.

Nody

Sonics2k wrote: »

Strangely enough the new teaser trailer is really flying under the social media radar. It's been massively overshadowed by some other trailers and it doesn't appear to have done much to increase the hype.

It honestly adds nothing though; ooh the south with fire god vs. the north with ice walkers are going to fight in the last season; who'd have thought so after they broke through the wall...

spacecoyote

Are there maybe any (not so) subtle pointers towards storyline in it though? The Wolf & the Dragon are both frozen by the ice, whilst the Lion is leading the flames from the south. Lannisters, the heroes?

Sleepy

spacecoyote wrote: »

Are there maybe any (not so) subtle pointers towards storyline in it though? The Wolf & the Dragon are both frozen by the ice, whilst the Lion is leading the flames from the south. Lannisters, the heroes?

That would be an EPIC twist.

No chance it'll happen but maybe it should.

Loafing Oaf

No sign of a proper trailer yet? They're really keeping things tight. I suppose this one season of a tv show that doesn't need the hype machine to be stoked...

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Sleepy wrote: »

No chance it'll happen...

How could you possibly know that?

TheIrishGrover

Nody wrote: »

It honestly adds nothing though; ooh the south with fire god vs. the north with ice walkers are going to fight in the last season; who'd have thought so after they broke through the wall...

You'd almost think the series of books was called "A Song of Ice and Fire".....

GottaGetGatt

looking back we only got a sneak peak of Season 6 in Mid February and a proper trailer in March.

biggebruv

GottaGetGatt wrote: »

looking back we only got a sneak peak of Season 6 in Mid February and a proper trailer in March.

I’m gonna do my hardest to avoid trailers anyways lol I’ve waited this long what’s another 3 months lol

Nody

biggebruv wrote: »

I’m gonna do my hardest to avoid trailers anyways lol I’ve waited this long what’s another 3 months lol

You better remain logged of from Facebook, twitter etc. as well because you know it will pop up discussions will happen just about everywhere and I don't even want to think about the season finale episode and the amount of bitching there will be going around due to the amount of people reading spoilers unintended :P

blackwhite

https://twitter.com/HBO/status/1082097487438102528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1082097487438102528&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theringer.com%2Ftv%2F2019%2F1%2F6%2F18171488%2Fgame-of-thrones-season-8-teaser-new-footage-golden-globes


A whole 5 seconds of new footage.

Superbowl in 4 weeks looks a good bet for a trailer release I'd say (or hope!)

Loafing Oaf

Nody wrote: »

You better remain logged of from Facebook, twitter etc. as well

And avoid the Daily Express website like the plague.:eek: