'Game of Thrones' Creators Hint at Show's End

By Dondi Tiples, Christian Post Contributor Sunday, April 19, 2015

"Game of Thrones" creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have talked about the show's ending coming sooner than fans would expect.

While HBO's miniseries, "Game of Thrones" remains on top of audiences' list of shows worth watching on TV, its creators and executive producers, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have started hinting the popular Seven Kingdoms epic isn't going to be as long-lived as expected.

Benioff and Weiss told Variety the show could extend for up to four years more, but that's as far as they're predicting its popularity will hold. Despite having accumulated huge ratings as well as millions of fans, the executive producers predict it will be a finite thing.

"One thing that really got us excited when we pitched this to HBO was that this isn't just a regular series. It's a real story with a beginning, a middle, and an end," Benioff said. "We know what the end is, and we're barreling towards it."

He further added stretching the show out for the sole reason of making money would feel like a betrayal.

Another factor involves the show having caught up with the books written by George R.R. Martin, whose "A Song of Ice and Fire" forms the basis for the show. With the sixth novel still going along, season five is slated to cover all the material for the existing five books in the epic fantasy series.

Earlier this month, Benioff and Weiss released a statement season six would be going off the books entirely, taking the show to a whole different direction. According to their conversations with Martin, who makes up the stories as he goes, endings he initially conceives don't always come to fruition at the end of the work.

As to the show's conclusion, while a nine-season run would be ideal, many are speculating that six to seven seasons of "Game of Thrones" will happen instead.