Over the course of seven seasons, Game of Thrones has certainly never been shy about killing off major characters, but with the eighth and final season just over the horizon, all bets are truly off. Will Daenerys Targaryan (Emilia Clarke) and her dragons survive to claim the Iron Throne? Will Jon Snow (Kit Harington) defeat the Night King (Vladimir Furdik) and the White Walkers? Will Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) discover the magic of prosthetics? We've got six super-sized episodes for all of this and more to be revealed. HBO has unleashed a pair of new promos for the upcoming season which give us another small tease of the epic battles to come.
Speaking of epic battles, the inevitable clash between the Army of the Living and the Army of the Dead is expected to be the "most sustained action sequence ever made for television or film." According to Peter Dinklage, it will make "the Battle of the Bastards look like a theme park," but Game of Thrones co-creator David Benioff is aware that throwing two armies at one another isn't the most compelling piece of entertainment so they made sure to give multiple characters their own survival storylines.
Having the largest battle doesn’t sound very exciting — it actually sounds pretty boring. Part of our challenge, and really, Miguel’s [Sapochnik] challenge, is how to keep that compelling… we’ve been building toward this since the very beginning, it’s the living against the dead, and you can’t do that in a 12-minute sequence.
Game of Thrones will return to HBO on April 14th.
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