HBO Wants to Film Several Different Endings for Game of Thrones to Avoid Leaks
HBO is taking a stand against leaks for the final season of their hit series Game of Thrones.
The network’s programming president Casey Bloys said last week that they’re planning to film several endings to season eight of the acclaimed series in order to avoid leaks.
“I know in ‘Game of Thrones,’ the ending, they’re going to shoot multiple versions so that nobody really knows what happens,” said Bloys. “You have to do that on a long show. Because when you’re shooting something, people know,” he added, “so they’re going to shoot multiple versions so that there’s no real definitive answer until the end.”
The decision comes after season seven’s plot details got accurately leaked online months before the show aired on HBO.
The final season of Game of Thrones is rumoured to air in 2019.
Source: The Morning Call.
Game of Thrones Season 8 Production to Run from October to August 2018
The Hollywood Reporter released an article on Monday talking about how it’s not a big deal that we’re going to have to wait at least 16 months for the final season of Game of Thrones, but we’re not over it.
As we know, season 8 will start production in October, and according to the article, filming might go on until August 2018.
This fact is not a surprise, considering it has been confirmed that we’re getting feature-length episodes throughout the season.
“The shooting is complicated enough,” said HBO programming president Casey Bloys, “and the special effects are a whole other production period that we’re trying to figure out.”
According to the article, showrunners D. B. Weiss and David Benioff have the episodes mapped out already and currently figuring out a schedule.
THR also pointed out that this two-year wait is not strange for HBO, as shows like Atlanta, The Sopranos and Westworld all have had/are having long periods of time between seasons.
Sorry, Game of Thrones Fans, but Those Spinoffs Won’t Air Anytime Soon
HBO chief Casey Bloys has confirmed that the Game of Thrones spinoffs currently in development will not hit the network anytime close to the series finale.
Bloys spoke to the press on Wednesday at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour.
He told reporters:
The No. 1 priority in all of this is the final season of Game of Thrones. I don’t want to do anything with a spinoff or anything that detracts or distracts from that.
That season will happen, and my guess is it would be at least a year before you saw anything else. What I don’t want is the attention to be drawn from the final season, which I think is going to be epic and amazing, and somehow have the distraction of a new Game of Thrones airing right after that. It’s best to separate it and that’s what we’ll do.
If season 8 of the highly acclaimed show does indeed come out in 2019, that would mean we won’t get a spinoff until at least 2020!
For now, at least we can just relax as we watch our favorite characters die while watching the current season.