‘Game Of Thrones’ Final Season Has “Exceeded The Bar” With Episodes That Feel Like Movies
The final season ofGame of Thronesis still a few months away, but that’s not stopping HBO from continuing to hype up the final six episodes of the epic fantasy series based on the books of George R.R. Martin. New footage from the final season debuted in a new HBO promo last weekend, but the cable network’s CEORichard Pleplerhas seen much more, and he promises that the final season has exceeded expectations, and it’s mostly because each episode is like a movie unto itself.
Find out what to expect fromGame of Thronesfinal season below.
Speaking toVarietyabout the upcomingGame of Thronesfinal season, HBO CEO Richard Plepler makes it sounds like the series will go out with a bang:
“It’s a spectacle. The guys have done six movies. The reaction I had while watching them was, ‘I’m watching a movie.’ 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.”
Considering the fact that we had heardGame of Thronesproducers wanted toend the series with a film trilogy, we’re not surprised that the scale of these final episodes is along the lines of feature films. This is a series that has already been quite the epic so far, even bigger than some tentpole releases, so why not up the ante with the final season? Plus, the fact that they already feel so big without any of the visual effects finished is impressive unto itself.
However, it’s important to keep in mind that this is an HBO CEO saying these words, so of course he’s going to hype up his own network’s programming as much as possible. The real challenge will be living up to the expectations of fans and giving them a satisfying conclusion. And that might be difficult since some fans have been disappointed with the direction of the series since veering off from the completed books that George R.R. Martin has written. Executive producers and showrunnersD.B. WeissandDavid Benioffare on their own when it comes to source material, so we’ll see if they came up with a conclusion worthy of Westeros.
Game of Thronesreturns to HBO sometime in April 2019, but a specific date hasn’t been revealed yet. But there’s still plenty moreGame of Thronesto comewith a prequel seriestaking us back in time 1,000 years before the events of the original series. Stay tuned for more soon.
