Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have promised to give you a proper season eight trailer after HBO dropped that teaser on Monday.
Winter has been a long time coming and with the season eight release date now real and in sight, a trailer felt to some like a lost cause.
Well, it’s happening – even if Benioff and Weiss didn’t want it to.
‘[David Lynch] was saying he wished there were no trailers,’ Benioff told Entertainment Weekly. ‘And it’s true, you could just go into a movie and see something completely fresh.’
‘I wish there were no trailers,’ Weiss added. ‘I just want somebody to say, “Trust me, go see this.”’
Filming for the fantasy epic wrapped up months ago, and while fans’ patience has been tested to the max (it’s been more than 18 months since the season seven finale), they’ve been treated to a three second clip of Sansa Stark meeting Daenerys Targaryen for the first time – which paid a very welcomed homage to the late Ned Stark.
And this week, HBO released a head-ache of a teaser, with the Stark children Jon Snow, Sansa and Arya confronted by their own tombs in the Winterfell crypt, and there was a lot to unpack.
Jon Snow’s statue had aged substantially more than his sisters’, and while we have no idea what that could possible mean it will likely be the sort of therapy-inducing horror Gwendoline Christie claimed we’ll become accustomed to.
And Bran Stark was noticeably absent from the family get-together, which for many can mean only one thing: he is undoubtedly The Night King.
Game of Thrones returns to HBO and Sky Atlantic on April 14.
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