Game of Thrones’ final season will only have 6 episodes

While fans of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” know that the upcoming season 7 will only have seven episodes, the showrunners of the highly successful medieval fantasy series have confirmed that the eighth and final season in 2018 will be even shorter, with only six episodes.

David Benioff and Dan Weiss confirmed the length of season 8 during last weekend’s South by Southwest Film Festival held at Austin Texas. “It’s only going to be six episodes for the final season,” Entertainment Weekly quoted Benioff as saying. “From the beginning we’ve wanted to tell a 70-hour movie. It will turn out to be a 73-hour movie, but it’s stayed relatively the same of having the beginning, middle and now we’re coming to the end. It would have been really tough if we lost any core cast members along the way, I’m very happy we’ve kept everyone and we get to finish it the way we want to.”

Based on George R.R. Martin’s critically acclaimed “A Song of Ice and Fire” series of novels, “Game of Thrones” is set in the fictional fantasy world of Westeros and beyond, where different royal houses fight for power and supremacy. As men and women outwit each otehr to get ahead, evil forces and the dead begin to rise—leading those who are aware of the danger to find a way to unite opposing sides before everything alive perishes.

Season 7 of "Game of Thrones" will premiere on July 16. — BM, GMA News