We whole world is waiting for the final season of from the past two years. The show is one of the most-watched and most loved around the globe and it has given heart-fainting moments throughout these seven seasons. The trailer for the much-awaited season 8 was dropped a few weeks back and it gave out a few interesting details which much to the excitement of the fans. GoT season 8 will go on air from April 14, 2019, and will be having eight episodes.
Earlier, Entertainment Weekly reported that the first two episodes of season 8 will be under 60-minute mark - 54 minutes and 58 minutes respectively. Now, a Twitter page named Winter is Coming has given out the runtime of all eight episodes. Except episode one and two, all the episodes will have a runtime of an hour and more. The longest episodes will be seven and eight, which will have a runtime of about 80 minutes.
Check out the tweet below:
HBO reveals the episode runtimes for S8 of #GameofThrones
E1: 54 minutes E2: 58 minutes E3: 60 minutes E4: 78 minutes E5: 80 minutes E6: 80 minutes
(via @HBO | @WiCnet) pic.twitter.com/kSdJzjqblh
— Game of Thrones Facts (@thronesfacts) March 11, 2019
One of the directors of Game of Thrones, David Nutter had revealed to EW in November 2018, "Season 8 episodes will all, I think, be longer than 60 minutes. They’ll be dancing around the bigger numbers, I know that for sure.
While the show's co-executive producer Bryan Cogman had told EW, "This final face-off between the Army of the Dead and the army of the living is completely unprecedented and relentless and a mixture of genres even within the battle".
Game of Thrones Season 8 will even witness several much-awaited reunions between the cast and deadly war ever seen in the world of television.