HBO is currently in talks to lock down a seventh and eighth season of the hit series Game of Thrones.
Deadline reports HBO president Michael Lombardo confirmed the network is discussing the terms of the possible renewal at the Television Critics Association. Game of Thrones doesn’t have a set series length goal, but showrunner David Benioff and Dan Weiss have expressed the desire to end the show after eight seasons.
“David and Dan are feeling there’s probably two more years after Season 6, that’s what we’re looking at right now,” Lombardo told Deadline back in July 2015. “We hope that they would change their mind, but that’s how they are feeling now.”
The show is now getting into spoiler territory as A Song of Fire and Ice author George R.R. Martin has yet to complete his fantasy novels. Martin recently took to his Not A Blog to confirm the sixth installment of his series, Winds of Winter, would not be released before Game of Thrones' premiere this spring.
“Unfortunately, the writing did not go as fast or as well as I would have liked,” Martin wrote. “You can blame my travels or my blog posts or the distractions of other projects and the Cocteau and whatever, but maybe all that had an impact... you can blame my age, and maybe that had an impact too...but if truth be told, sometimes the writing goes well and sometimes it doesn't, and that was true for me even when I was in my 20s.”
Martin knows some of the things he’s planned for his book will likely be exposed by the show before he’s released the final installment of A Song of Ice and Fire. However, Martin went on to describe how the show has diverged from the books and that there are still some secrets books readers will uncover reading his novels.
Game of Thrones season 6 premieres April 24 on HBO.
