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The gap between seasons of Game Of Thrones – usually about 10 months – always feels excruciatingly long.
But fans will have to wait even longer than normal for the hotly anticipated seventh season to arrive, as the HBO hit’s showrunners revealed on Thursday.
David Benioff and Dan Weiss broke the news on the UFC Unfiltered podcast, explaining that the need for some particularly dark and moody weather will push filming back until much later in 2017.
“We’re starting a bit later because at the end of this season, ‘Winter is here’, and that means that sunny weather doesn’t really serve our purposes anymore.
“So we kind of pushed everything down the line, so we could get some grim, grey weather even in the sunnier places that we shoot.”
It’s just the latest blow to fans, who recently learned that the series may have as little as 13 episodes left.
“I think we’re down to our final 13 episodes after this season,” Benioff told Variety.
“We’re heading into the final lap. That’s the guess, though nothing is yet set in stone, but that’s what we’re looking at.”
The silver lining is that the less episodes there are, the higher quality each individual one will be. What else can we do but stay positive in dark times like these?
