Season 7 TV Thread - A foreign invasion is underway

not a bad prediction

 

TBH I could see that little snake little finger taking the vail army to kingslanding on the sneak sneak while everyone else is up north fighting the WW

 

I get the feeling she'll never sit on the iron throne

 

I need more than 7 episodes

 

Especially when we have to wait so long for them

 

No way they all fit on his helicopter...

 

Would Littlefinger on the iron throne be good or bad for westros? He is a backstabbing, conniving, liar who only looks out for himself, but I don't really feel like he would be a terrible King. At least not like burn your subjects terrible

 

i think littlefinger would burn his subjects if it helped him in anyway

he's self serving, but not maniacal

 

Littlefinger would need Sansa for that, i just dont see it

 

HBO Looking For ‘The Right Take’ on Game of Thrones Spinoff
Television history is littered with spinoffs of popular series. From sitcom spinoffs like Mork & Mindy and Frasier to genre shows like Angel and Torchwood, repurposing existing characters for new TV shows has been a go-to way for TV execs to ring a little extra money out of successful properties. But what a show’s characters all get horribly murdered by the end of the series?

That’s one question that could face a potential spinoff of HBO’s Game of Thrones, given how many characters have been offed over previous seasons. Fear the Walking Dead sidestepped that issue by having the show take place in the same world as The Walking Dead but in a different part of the country with an entirely different set of characters. Would HBO follow a similar path, or might they have something else in mind for extending the longevity of their series?

HBO programming president Casey Bloys spoke to THR about the topic at the Westworldpremiere in Hollywood, and while he did not have any specifics to give about HBO’s plans, his comments made it clear it’s something that’s been on their minds. In the end, however, Bloys says the decision on how to proceed with a potential spinoff comes down to finding the right ideas and the right person to execute them:

“There are so many properties and areas to go to. For us, it’s about finding the right take with the right writer.”







That writer is not likely to be either David Benioff or D.B. Weiss, the show’s existing showrunners. They have indicated previously that they would not continue with the Game of Thrones universe once the current series is done. Bloys, however, is hopeful that once the stress of production wears off they might change their minds:

“You’re getting them right when they’re about to embark on production. It’s a big, big commitment for them, not just their creative force, but also their family life. They’re gone for months at a time. So it’s a big, big thing. But should we find a property that makes sense as a spinoff or a prequel — whatever you want to say — I would not expect them to do it, because they’re going to need to decompress for a good amount of time, but it would certainly be nice to have their involvement in some way. At what level? I have no idea.”


Of course, in the end Bloys wants what any TV exec with an eye on the bottom line would want, which is for his channel’s massive moneymaker to continue on indefinitely. When asked if HBO had any definitive plans for an eventual Game of Thrones spinoff, he offered his best case scenario:

“Not yet. There are things that sound interesting, but at this point, we have no writers assigned or anything like that. In a perfect world, Game of Thrones would keep going, and we wouldn’t have to deal with any of this!”


There are two abbreviated seasons left for Game of Thrones, and after that HBO will have to decide whether to let the show die peacefully or to invoke the magic of the Lord of Light to force it back to life. A Song of Ice and Fire writer George R.R. Martin has said that there is “a wealth of material” available on which to base additional stories set in Westeros, but time will tell if any of that material sees the light of day.

 

Honestly might be my favorite two scenes in the show's history. NOW THATS HOW YOU SPOSED TO END A SEASON! FROM NOW ON, THATS HOW YOU END A SEASON!

 

Please just give us a fucking Robert's Rebellion movie.

 

I don't think they'll go right into Robert's Rebellion I think they'll let this current show end and wear off a bit before they reset with new actors playing same (albeit younger) characters.

if I had to bet I would put money on Dunk & Egg.

 

There's like 5-6 more compelling stories than Roberts Rebellion. We know exactly what happened there

 

If you read the books you do. There's so much more exposition there. I would be willing to bet that if you asked them, 75% of the TV audience would not be able to tell you what Robert's Rebellion was.

 

The show has been pretty ambiguous for reasons we are about to find out IMO

Roberts Rebellon also has only 4-5 major events and I can't really see them making more than 15 episodes for it, whereas there's a lot more material for a bunch of other things

 

Yeah I always imagine it as a movie. I think it makes a perfect movie script and no one in Hollywood has had an original idea in a decade.

 

And considering the CGI budget, the Dance of Dragons would 100% have to be a movie series too

Anything post dragons perishing would be easy to do for tv though

 

put it in a spoiler tag.

 

is that the fucking night king riding a zombie dragon?

 

Holy fucking spoilers

Delete that shit

 

I don't think it's real.

 

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its not, but it's based off the Reddit post that outlined the entire season and this is in it. The synopsis looks real based on filming leaks so far

 

Looks more like an Ice Dragon.

 

In regards to the spoilery stuff...

DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANT POTENTIAL SPOILERS

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there's rumors they're deliberately filming fake stuff to mislead spies but I've been told from people who were on set that there's storyboard of scenes between Dany and Jon in a cabin sort of setting

Also Cersei has done a bit of redesign in King's Landing

 

oh ffs

 

HBO is gearing up for Game of Thrones to end with Season 8, but the network still hasn't formally renewed it for the final season.

HBO programming president Casey Bloys explained what the hold up is at the 2017 winter TV Critics Association press tour, saying it's a matter of finalizing the episode order for the final season.

“The only thing we’re working out is how many episodes they want to do,” Bloys told TVLine when asked why Season 8 hasn't been officially announced. “They’re still figuring it out because I think they’re trying to get a shape of the season."

Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have said that they want to do around six more hours of the series after the seven-episode Season 7. That led many to conclude Season 8 would be six episodes long, but recent comments have suggested that's still up in the air.

Bloys told TVLine he "hopes" Benioff and Weiss ultimately deliver more than six episodes for Season 8. "They always do what they think [will yield] the best version of the show. It’s all about how many they’re comfortable [with]," he said. "But I’ll always take more."

Game of Thrones: Season 7 will soon finish production and is slated for a summer 2017 premiere date. IGN asked Bloys when exactly in the summer TV season the series will air, to which he said, "Still up in the air, but I would say 'mid.'"

HBO is coming off the successful launch of another big genre series, Westworld, which was nominated for multiple Golden Globes and won several of IGN's Best of TV in 2016 awards. With the delayed return of Game of Thrones, we asked Bloys if there was any concern in the lull of quality sci-fi/fantasy programming on the network.

"My hope is Westworld will be in the first half of 2018. I've got two really great, big genre shows, but I don't want the whole slate to be all feeling like big sci-fi stuff, although they're two great shows," Bloys said. "We're trying to do other things like we have David Simon's show coming up, we're doing a family drama, Big Little Lies. I'm trying to have more variations in the slate. Hopefully sci-fi fans will be OK from the summer of '17 to sometime first half of '18 for Westworld."

 

Friend of a friend was hiking in Iceland on Saturday and stumbled across GoT filming a scene. She's a fan of the show so she snapped a pic and sent it over. She watches the show so she was able to recognize the two main characters in the scene, despite the fact that they look like ants in the pic:

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John Snow and the Hound. John you can see up front

 

I have a friend who works on the show and she told me that S7 starts in July.

 

Prediction for Season 7/8

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Daenerys siege of King's Landing
Wall falls down, Night King invades north
Daenerys goes north, alienates Sand Snakes and Olenna who only want revenge
Littlefinger fucks Sansa over, moves on Capital with the armies of Riverlands and Vale and new allies in Dorne and The Reach
Arya kills Cersei, Littlefinger seizes the throne
Dany dies fighting Night King
John Snow defeats Night King
Bran reveals John Snow is a Targaryen
John Snow defeats Littlefinger, becomes King

 

Regarding a spinoff, the Doom of Valyria could make for an amazing series imo. I just don't know if it's to tertiary too characters the broader audience has already been introduced to for them to take that leap.

 

No it wouldn't. Literally anything that's happened in westeros the past 300 years is way more interesting than that.

 

Just do Dunk and Egg. A story is already laid out and it's fuckin awesome. I suppose it depends on how long of a show HBO is looking for because Hedge Knight would probably only be like two maybe three episodes

 

This would cost HBO a lot of money to make; new story, new locations, new costumes, lots of cgi

This would not; existing story, same locations, reuse costumes, little cgi

 

Robert Rebellion has to be the next thing, fans are familiar with the characters and it lets the fan learn more about beloved characters that were killed or never seen but mentioned plenty of times.

 

I just hope they recast young Ned if they do it.

 

They'll have to, the current guy is tolerable for a scene here and there but being a main character in his own series, hell no.

 

I doubt it. He's written about everything else except the rebellion except sprinkling in details throughout his novels. Honestly it's pretty boring stuff and wouldn't be more than 20 episodes.

-Tourney at Harrenhal
-Shortly after, Rhaegar 'kidnaps' Leanna
-Rickard and Brandon go to KL asking for Lyanna, get murdered by Aerys
-Stark, Arryn and Baratheon raise banners
-Minor battles
-Battle of Trident
-Sacking of KL
-Tower of Joy

It would be super expensive to produce and there's just not much story to be honest. It would make a good movie trilogy but I'd much rather get The Dance of Dragons first. If strictly thinking about television, give me Dunk and Egg. You could get 10-12 seasons of out that and stretch it out since there's minimal battling going on.

 

I think they can do a series about Robert's Rebellion even without much source material, the series would simply be based on it, we have seen that HBO has no problem going away from source material. Dance of the dragons would be too expensive to do and Dunk and Egg I'm just not sure how it would play out in a tv series where they'll cut out a lot of material.

 

Dunk & Egg would be so dependent on them nailing the casting of the two main characters. they would need to have tremendous chemistry to carry the show.

 

After a few seasons they would need to recast. Dunk is 16 and Egg is like 7 at story 1. I've seen the outline and Egg gets coronated around story 7, where he's 20. So there's some gaps there. Story ends with Summerhall

 

they could just bump up their ages to like 24 and 15 and it could work.