Game Of Thrones is going to come full circle in season eight with a call back to the very first episode in season one.
Creators David Benioff and DB Weiss teased that the opening shot will tease the start of a huge fight across Westros, much like the beginning of season one did.
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…and we all know how that turned out.
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.
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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