‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 Could Be Delayed Due To Filming Schedule

Game Of Thrones will air its seventh season in 2017 – but it might not premiere in early spring as the show normally does.

Game Of Thrones Season 7

Fans of Game of Thrones, HBO’s hit medieval fantasy series based off George R. R. Martin‘s bestselling Song of Ice and Fire series, have been waiting for winter to come for quite a while, and might have to wait even longer than expected. Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss want to be sure to capture “winter” as best they can on screen. For that, they’ll have to push back filming season 7.

“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 any more,” they said on a UFC podcast. “So we kind of pushed everything down the line, so we could get some grim, gray weather even in the sunnier places that we shoot.”

Benioff and Weiss added, “We don’t have an air date yet.”

Ahead of the airing of season 6, Benioff and Weiss admitted that Game of Thrones was hurtling towards the end of the series.

“We’re not walking away. We’re approaching the finish line. From the outset, our hope was to tell a complete story — beginning, middle and end. We are writing the final act now, and the last thing we want to do is stay on stage after the play is over,” they told The Hollywood Reporter. “In the beginning, we hoped that if the show worked, we’d get seven seasons to tell the tale. Seven kingdoms, seven gods, seven books — seven felt like a lucky number. The actual messiness of storytelling might not be quite that numerologically elegant, but we’re looking at somewhere between 70 and 75 hours before the credits roll for the last time.”

It’s been reported that Game of Thrones will likely have a shortened season 7 followed by a shortened season 8.