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Game of Thrones showrunners confirm maximum of 15 more eps

Two more seasons, of shorter duration, as showrunners head for the final act.

Warning: Contains S6 plot points. Make sure you have seen season finale.

Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss have confirmed that there are only a maximum of 15 episodes of the fantasy drama left, meaning the show will end after two more shortened series.

In a Deadline interview they were asked, “There is a lot of story left to tell. How far have you mapped it out?”

BENIOFF: We’ve been talking about the ending, from the beginning. It’s a strange phenomenon, we’re in this territory where you are walking on your own and can’t rely on the written material anymore. As we get close to the ending, we’ve been talking about that for so long, things come into better focus. Once we get to the final end game, we’ve got very specific ideas that have grown organically over the past six plus years about where everything will end up.

DEADLINE: When you have President Obama asking about plot points and whether Jon Snow would stay dead, it indicates you haven’t overstayed your welcome. You could continue this struggle for a long time.

WEISS: Like President Obama, we want to leave while all the people watching this show are really into it. Get out at a high point and not have it be, well thank god that’s over.

BENIOFF: It’s two more seasons we’re talking about. From pretty close to the beginning, we talked about doing this in 70-75 hours, and that’s what we’ll end up with. Call it 73 for now. What Dan says is really true, but it’s not just trying not to outstay your welcome. We’re trying to tell one cohesive story with a beginning, middle and end. As Dan said, we’ve known the end for quite some time and we’re hurtling towards it. Those last images from the show that aired last night showed that. Daenerys is finally coming back to Westeros; Jon Snow is king of the North and Cersei is sitting on the Iron Throne. And we know the Night King is up there, waiting for all of them. The pieces are on the board now. Some of the pieces have been removed from the board and we are heading toward the end game. The thing that has excited us from the beginning, back to the way we pitched it to HBO is, it’s not supposed to be an ongoing show, where every season it’s trying to figure out new story lines. We wanted it to be one giant story, without padding it out to add an extra 10 hours, or because people are still watching it. We wanted to something where, if people watched it end to end, it would make sense as one continuous story. We’re definitely heading into the end game now.

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  1. For me GOT is like when I’m reading a great book and I want to know the ending but I don’t ever want to stop reading it because it’s so enjoyable. That said though, the best shows and my favourite shows always have a planned end date and form a complete story, I’m really looking forward to seeing how they tie everything together and what twists are built into the story. And what Jon’s hair will look like next season.

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