WINTER IS CLOSE
Posted: 070417

Game of Thrones season seven premieres this month. The shortened season is wrapped and pre-production is currently underway for the final season of the HBO series. UFC’s Conor McGregor is involved in one of the seasons; likely season eight which was supposed to be a six episode season but may be longer than that. Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss haven’t even written those episodes yet so HBO is sitting back and waiting with the hope they get a longer final season. The upcoming season is supposedly larger in scale with a lot of major battles. HBO will not be done with the world created by George RR Martin yet since the company is considering five possible spin-off series. We had always heard there were four possible shows but Martin says someone came in with an idea for a fifth one that blew them all away. The original four ideas came from Mystic River’s Brian Helgeland, Godzilla’s Max Borenstein, X-Men: First Class’ Jane Goldman and The Leftovers’ Carly Wray. Martin Martin’s Dunk and Egg works will not be one of the spin-offs. Whichever one HBO chooses will be executive produced by Weiss and Benioff but they will not write any of them.