The Game of Thrones Season 4 is fast approaching and fans can't get enough of it, so the following news may be good or bad depending on how you view it as the Game of Thrones showrunners estimate that the show will probably end on the 7th season.
How long will HBO's Game of Thrones run?
According to an interview with EW, Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss estimate that the Game of Thrones will end on the 7th season.
"It feels like this is the midpoint for us," Benioff says. "If we're going to go seven seasons, which is the plan, season 4 is right down the middle, the pivot point."
"I would say it's the goal we've had from the beginning," Benioff says. "It was our unstated goal, because to start on a show and say your goal is seven seasons is the height of lunacy. Once we got to the point where we felt like we're going to be able to tell this tale to its conclusion, that became [an even clearer] goal. Seven gods, seven kingdoms, seven seasons. It feels right to us."
"I'm expecting to be sitting down with Dan and David to talk season 5 and we'll talk about how things are looking," says HBO programming president Michael Lombardo. "We're all very mindful that they're having conversations all the time with [author George R.R. Martin]. I think they do feel bullish enough that there's enough story to deliver through season 7. I hate to sound greedy, but our longest shows have gone 7 or 8 seasons, so seven is a nice long run for us."
Of course, there's the whole matter of Thrones catching up to Martin's source material, since the author has released only five of his planned seven-novel Song of Ice and Fire series.
But they have a plan for that just in case they catch up as according to Benioff and Weiss, George R. R. Martin revealed how the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series will end.
Benioff says in an interview with Vanity Fair, "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, 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."
That's right, they had a spoiler-filled meeting with George R.R. Martin. However, George R.R. Martin noted that not all of the pieces of the puzzle are in place. "I can give them the broad strokes of what I intend to write, but the details aren't there yet," he tells Vanity Fair. "I'm hopeful that I can not let them catch up with me."
