A big part of what makes Game Of Thrones so popular is the sweeping fantasy set pieces, whether it’s dragons barbecuing armies to a crisp from above, a red wedding or an epic battle scene.
The most iconic battle so far has been Battle of the Bastards, the penultimate episode of season six which saw Jon Snow and Ramsay Bolton face off in a huge showdown for control of Winterfell.
But season eight is going to go one better – with it being the final series and all – with a fight scene to end all other fight scenes.
Star Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister on the show, hinted that a ‘brutal’ battle is on the way.
A new report from the set of the final season revealed that the new battle set piece took weeks to film.
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.
Co-creator David 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 creators David and Dan Weiss 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.’
Game Of Thrones is set to return in 2019.
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