With the premiere of the fourth season of Game of Thrones drawing ever closer, Entertainment Weekly caught up with showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to discuss their plans going forward, with the duo stating that they’re aiming to wrap up their adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga in seven seasons.
“It feels like this is the midpoint for us,” states Benioff with regards to the upcoming season four. “If we’re going to go seven seasons, which is the plan, season 4 is right down the middle, the pivot point. “I would say it’s the goal we’ve had from the beginning. It was our unstated goal, because to start on a show and say your goal is seven seasons is the height of lunacy. Once we got to the point where we felt like we’re going to be able to tell this tale to its conclusion, that became [an even clearer] goal. Seven gods, seven kingdoms, seven seasons. It feels right to us.”
As it happens Martin also intends on releasing seven books in his fantasy epic, although fans are still waiting for the arrival of the sixth book The Winds of Winter, and it seems certain that the show will catch up to and overtake the book series before the seventh novel finally arrives on shelves.
Originally published March 12, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
