Season 8

Season 8 of Game of Thrones, like the seventh season, will be shortened to six episodes, due to the smaller amount of story content remaining, as well as the increased production values and time required to film episodes involving larger set pieces than in previous seasons.

Like the sixth and seventh seasons, Season 8 will be based on an outline of the two final, presently-unpublished novels in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring. Filming will begin in September, 2017 for an expected 2018 release.

Cast
Confirmed returning starring cast
 * Liam Cunningham as Ser Davos Seaworth
 * Sophie Turner as Princess Sansa Stark

Writers

 * Dave Hill: episode 1
 * Bryan Cogman: episode 2
 * David Benioff & D.B. Weiss: episodes 3, 4, 5 and 6