With the final season of Game of Thrones scheduled for the end of 2019, the executive producers at HBO have said that the wait will be worth it, Variety magazine reported.
With the final season of Game of Thrones scheduled for the end of 2019, the executive producers at HBO have said that the wait will be worth it, Variety magazine reported.
“It was a really powerful moment in our lives and our careers,” said Francesca Orsi, HBO SVP of drama, who took part in a panel titled “The Best of HBO” at the INTV Conference in Israel. “None of the cast had received the scripts prior, and one by one they started falling down to their deaths.”
In discussing “Game of Thrones” during the session, Orsi said that at the table read of the final six scripts (“a dream opportunity,” she said), everyone stood up and applauded for 15 to 20 minutes. “It was amazing,” she said of the episodes, which will air in 2019. “By the very end, everyone looked down and looked up and tears were in their eyes.”
The network execs revealed they hope to continue the magic with the potential spin-offs, which Orsi promised will live up to the original. “It feels like corporate malfeasance to not continue it,” said Orsi. “That’s why it spawned three, four, five spinoffs,” adding that “we’re going big.”
Earlier, Actor Maisie Williams has revealed that the makers are not filming multiple endings for the final season of Game Of Thrones.
Williams, who plays Arya Stark on the series ever since its first season, broached the topic of multiple endings being filmed for season eight to combat spoilers during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
"Well I heard this, and I immediately thought, 'I don t think we've got the budget to shoot lots of different endings'," she said.
When Kimmel reminded Williams that HBO President Casey Bloys was the one to put out the claims of multiple endings, she said, "But as we know, sometimes presidents don t always tell the truth."
In September 2017, HBO programming president Casey Bloys revealed at Bethlehem's Moravian College that the series will have multiple endings so that even the cast doesn't know how it all comes to an end.
"I know in Game of Thrones, the ending, they’re going to shoot multiple versions so that nobody really knows what happens,” Bloys was quoted as saying. "You have to do that on a long show. Because when you’re shooting something, people know. So they’re going to shoot multiple versions so that there’s no real definitive answer until the end."
Williams then said that she read the ending and needed a minute after that.
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