HBO CEO Says Game of Thrones Season 8 is Like ‘Six Movies’

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HBO CEO says Game of Thrones season 8 is like ‘six movies’

HBO CEO Richard Plepler revealed to Variety that the upcoming season of Game of Thrones feels like six movies. No shocker there as the final season of the popular fantasy series was always going to go out with a bang, but fans can at least rest assured the studio and show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have spared no expense completing the epic story.

“It’s a spectacle. The guys have done six movies. The reaction I had while watching them was, ‘I’m watching a movie,’” Plepler told Variety. “They knew the bar was high. They’ve exceeded the bar. I’ve watched them twice without any CGI and I’m in awe. Everybody’s in for an extraordinary treat of storytelling and of magical, magical production.” 

At the end of last season, Daenerys’ (Emilia Clarke) dragons and her immense army were finally on the way to Westeros, where Cersei (Lena Headey) has now become Queen after the death of her children. The Night King’s (Vladimir Furdik in Season 6) army is heading south, and a battle appears to be imminent.

The executive producers of Game of Thrones Season 8 are David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger and Bernadette Caulfield; co-executive producers are Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis, George R.R. Martin and Bryan Cogman; and producers are Chris Newman, Greg Spence and Lisa McAtackney.

The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones will air in April of 2019 on HBO. It likely won’t be our last trip to Westeros, however, as HBO has greenlit a pilot set 1,000 years before the events of the wildly popular sword and sorcery epic. Naomi Watts and Josh Whitehouse have been cast in the prequel series.

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