David Benioff & D.B. Weiss over toekomst Game of Thrones

Afgelopen zondag werd het zesde seizoen van HBO’s Game of Thrones afgerond. Showrunners David Benioff en D.B. Weiss gingen tegenover Deadline in op wat ons nog te wachten staat. Het lijkt er namelijk op dat de geruchten waar zijn: er komen nog maar 13 afleveringen aan in totaal. Benioff zei:

We’ve been talking about the ending, from the beginning. It’s a strange phenomenon, we’re in this territory where you are walking on your own and can’t rely on the written material anymore. As we get close to the ending, we’ve been talking about that for so long, things come into better focus. Once we get to the final end game, we’ve got very specific ideas that have grown organically over the past six plus years about where everything will end up.”

Hij vervolgde:

“It’s two more seasons we’re talking about. From pretty close to the beginning, we talked about doing this in 70-75 hours, and that’s what we’ll end up with. Call it 73 for now. What Dan says is really true, but it’s not just trying not to outstay your welcome. We’re trying to tell one cohesive story with a beginning, middle and end. As Dan said, we’ve known the end for quite some time and we’re hurtling towards it. Those last images from the show that aired last night showed that. Daenerys is finally coming back to Westeros; Jon Snow is king of the North and Cersei is sitting on the Iron Throne. And we know the Night King is up there, waiting for all of them. The pieces are on the board now. Some of the pieces have been removed from the board and we are heading toward the end game. The thing that has excited us from the beginning, back to the way we pitched it to HBO is, it’s not supposed to be an ongoing show, where every season it’s trying to figure out new story lines. We wanted it to be one giant story, without padding it out to add an extra 10 hours, or because people are still watching it. We wanted to something where, if people watched it end to end, it would make sense as one continuous story. We’re definitely heading into the end game now.”

Terugkerende castleden zijn onder andere Peter DinklageNikolaj Coster-WaldauLena Headey, Emilia ClarkeKit HaringtonIain Glen, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Carice van HoutenAidan Gillen, John Bradley, Sophie TurnerMaisie Williams, Jerome Flynn, Isaac Hempstead WrightAlfie Allen, Nathalie Emmanuel, Conleth Hill, Julian Glover, Hannah Murray, Diana Rigg, Indira Varme, Michiel Huisman, Kristofer Hivju, Gwendoline Christie, Iwan Rheon, Dean-Charles Chapman, Michael McElhatton, Tom WlaschihaPilou Asbæk, Gemma Whelan, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Jessica Henwick, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, DeObia Oparei, Jonathan Pryce, David Bradley, Tobias Menzies, Paul Kaye, Kristian Nairn, Jacob Anderson, Finn Jones, Max von Sydow.

De bedenkers van de serie David Benioff en D.B. Weiss keren terug als uitvoerend producenten en showrunners voor seizoen 6. Het zesde seizoen bestaat net als de eerste vijf seizoenen uit 10 afleveringen en is waarschijnlijk gebaseerd op een klein deel van het vijfde boek uit de A Song of Ice and Fire serie van George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons en voor het grootste deel op het tot nu toe nog ongepubliceerde zesde boek The Winds of Winter.