The opening episode of Game Of Thrones season eight will ‘reset’ characters, according to one of the show’s director’s.
David Nutter revealed that the main players on the show are going to go back to the start as the final season kicks off.
In an AMA session on Reddit, Nutter was asked by a fan what it was like to direct the first episode of a season.
He said: ‘I’ve never directed an opening episode of GOT before until season 8 but I think it’s really important to make a splash.
‘You have to reset the table, put everyone back in their place, you have to take them to their next position. But you have to entertain that’s what’s most important.’
He also teased a ‘shocking’ finale to the hit HBO show.
The director said: ‘I’m completely satisfied with how season 8 ends. I think that [creators] David and Dan did a tremendous job, and they took into consideration what the fans want, as well as what is right as far as storytelling is concerned.
‘I guarantee there’s going to be lots of surprises and shocking moments, but it’s really very compelling stuff.’
David added: ‘Season 8 in three words — Spectacular, Inspiring, Satisfying’.
It comes after David Benioff and DB Weiss teased that the season opener is going to feature a deliberate call back to season one, episode one.
The pair revealed to Entertainment Weekly that season eight will kick off will Daenerys arriving at Winterfell with her armies to face off against the White Walkers.
This will reflect the first episode in season one back in 2011 with Robert Baratheon arriving at Winterfell to ask for Ned Stark’s help in King’s Landing.
This deliberate callback could be a sign that we’re in for plenty more carnage like we’ve seen over the last seven seasons, which is what the fans are hoping for.
It comes after the cast teased a ‘brutal’ battle in the final season that will overshadow Battle Of The Bastards.
Dinklage told Entertainment Weekly: ‘It’s brutal. It makes Battle of the Bastards look like a theme park.’
Apparently the scene has involves ‘multiple’ characters who play out their final storylines with the battle – against the White Walkers – as a backdrop.
Benioff added: ‘We’ve been building toward this since the very beginning, it’s the living against the dead, and you can’t do that in a 12-minute sequence.’
Emilia Clarke, who playd Daenerys Targaryen, added: ‘Everything feels more intense. I had a scene with someone and I turned to him and said, “Oh my God, I’m not going to do this ever again,” and that brings tears to my eyes.’
Meanwhile it was recently revealed that the six episode final season was originally intended to be made into three separate two-hour long movies.
Bosses believed that turning the final episodes into films could have helped with the budget they needed to end the story true to the magnificent scale writer George R. R. Martin described; however, these plans were later shelved when the series grew into one of the biggest franchises going.
Game of Thrones’ popularity helped the creators convince HBO to grant the last six episodes a budget of more than $15 million (£11.5 million) and with the big bucks on their side, the movies weren’t needed.
Talking about the upcoming finale, Dan told Entertainment Weekly: ‘It’s what we’re working towards in a perfect world. ‘We end up with an epic fantasy story but with the level of familiarity and investment in the characters that are normally impossible in a two-hour movie.’
