Showrunners explain why GoT’s final season is taking so long
David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the showrunners of Game of Thrones, have explained why the eighth and final season of the show is taking a long time as it is the biggest thing they have ever worked on.
The writer-producer duo said that though the last instalment of the series has only six episodes, the fans will soon get to know why it took them such a long time to shoot, reported to EW. “The final season’s taking a long time because it’s the biggest thing we’ve ever done. It was nearly a full year in Belfast either prepping it or actually shooting it. The last season is far beyond what we’ve ever attempted before,” Benioff says.
The epic fantasy show bagged its third Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series recently. The show won nine trophies in all — the highest at the award ceremony— including a third win for Peter Dinklage in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Meanwhile, writer of the parts of the show and the books on which it is based, George RR Martin feels that the show should have gone on for longer. “We could’ve gone 11, 12, 13 seasons. David and Dan have been saying for like five seasons that seven seasons is all they would go. We got them to go to eight but not any more than that,” he told Variety.
“There was a period like five years ago when they were saying seven seasons and I was saying 10 seasons and they won, they’re the ones actually working on it,” he added.