With such developments in the characters' storylines, it's clear that the saga is getting closer to its ending. In an interview with Deadline, showrunner David Benioff once again says that there's only 13 episodes left for the show.
"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," the co-showrunner says, confirming speculation that the final two seasons will be shorter than usual.
Not planning to prolong the saga just because there's a lot of people who still watch it, Benioff adds, "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."
He continues, "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."
While the show has surpassed the book, Benioff and co-showrunner D.B. Weiss have had a lot of conversations with the "Ice and Fire" book author George R. R. Martin about the direction of the story. "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," so Benioff claims.
While refusing to share details about the upcoming season, the showrunners reveals that the show will be "finding out what Cersei's mind-set is" in the seventh installment. Weiss teases, "Who is she? While Cersei has certainly done a lot of horrible things in her life and she could be a very cruel person, the one thing that was redemptive about her was, she genuinely loved her children. Now they're all gone, and I think that is very interesting for us. Who is she without her children? The answer is something you'll find out next season."
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