The last few days have seen quite a flurry of Game Of Thrones-related news, with Kit Harrington warning that the next season will be “bleak” – unlike the rest of the f’kn show – and speculation that Jason Momoa‘s Khal Drogo might return in some capacity.
In a recent, very extensive interview with Variety, Maisie Williams talked about the evolution of her character, Stark family MVP Arya, and the conclusion of the show, which has just two, shortened seasons to go.
A few months back, it was reported that Season 7 of Thrones would consist of just seven instalments, an announcement met with panic by some fans, who realised we may have little more than a dozen episodes before this whole thing wraps up.
When asked about the shortened season, Williams said that she’s “thrilled” that the show will be going out in a short and sweet fashion, and not dragging things out unnecessarily. She told Variety:
“It sucks for the audience because they love the episodes, but what we’ll never do on this show is drag it out, and I’m so thrilled about that. Too many shows start out about making a great show, and by Season 6 it’s about making money and all they want to do is write more episodes and make more money. This show makes a lot of money, and it would be easy for HBO to be like ‘we’re gonna do four more seasons and we’re gonna extend them to 12 episodes.’ I really respect David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] for holding their ground and for HBO to be like ‘no… we’re gonna tell this story and we’re gonna end it and that’ll be final.’”
Williams ultimately seems pretty confident that Thrones will get the ending it deserves, saying:
“Good things must come to an end or they’re not good anymore. It doesn’t last forever and we’ve done what we came to do, it’s time to wrap this up, and it will have the ending it was always supposed to have, and that’s very special. David and Dan started writing this show knowing the end, not knowing that it might actually come around and we might be allowed to make that many [seasons] — at the beginning we were just willing to make one [season]. They started this with an end in sight, and so it’s exciting to be closing it… I’m just excited to see everyone again – we start a lot later this year because winter has arrived, so that can’t happen in sunny Belfast.”
Thrones is scheduled to return for its seventh season in mid-2017.
Source: Variety.
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