The anxiously-awaited seventh season of HBO’s hit fantasy series Game of Thrones is set to debut in just a few weeks, and the creative minds behind the show are revealing that this season has quite a few surprises in store. Aside from upcoming plot developments, the seventh season features some changes to episode length and season structure. Season seven of Game of Thrones will only feature seven episodes, down from the usual ten each of the other seasons had. However, two of the episodes will be well over an hour in length, with one clocking in it just under 90 minutes – the longest Game of Thrones episode yet.
In addition to the extra-length episodes, one of the episodes will be the shortest yet at just under 50 minutes. Game of Thrones executive producers and showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss sat down with Entertainment Weekly to discuss the filming of the upcoming season. Benioff compared the freedom that HBO offers them with the constraints cable networks place on producers like Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan, stating it’s much easier to work without a pre-set time limit:
It always amazed me when I watched Breaking Bad and they could get every episode so perfect and they would all be like 42 minutes and 40 seconds or something. One of the things we’re lucky about is we don’t have the same pressure. We have one episode that’s coming in around 90 minutes and another that’s going to be our shortest episode at 50 minutes.
This season is all the more anxiously awaited due to the fact that the television series has now extended beyond the plot of the five published Game of Thrones novels. Game of Thrones season seven premieres July 16th exclusively on HBO.
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