Will there ever be a Game of Thrones season 9?

Unfortunately, as of now, there’s no chance of a continuation of the stories that ended with Game of Thrones‘ series finale. Before the final season even began airing, the president of programming at HBO, Casey Bloys, made a declarative statement to The Hollywood Reporter when asked about the possibility of the network bringing back the flagship series at some point: “That’s not happening. This story, A Song of Fire and Ice, is done. There’s no revival, reboot, spin-off talk.”

Although that statement was made in 2018 and TV networks have been known to cave to fan pressure, at the time of this writing, there has been no indication that HBO is planning any kind of continuation of the story that ended with Jon Snow killing his lover-slash-aunt Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) after she spiraled into madness and destroyed King’s Landing, Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) taking the Iron Throne, Cersei and Jaime Lannister (Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) being crushed to death, Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) becoming Queen in the North, Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) becoming Bran’s Hand, and Yara Greyjoy (Gemma Whelan) ruling over the Iron Islands. 

True fans of the world of Westeros still have two A Song of Fire and Ice books to look forward to from author George R.R. Martin: the long-awaited The Winds of Winter and the conclusion to the series, A Dream of Spring. Martin has assured fans that the conclusion to the novels won’t be a mirror of how the show ended, but that’s cold comfort to those who are only familiar with Benioff and Weiss’ version of the story.

However, just because a Game of Thrones season 9 won’t happen in this lifetime, it doesn’t mean that HBO is done exploring the world of Westeros.