Sorry, HBO Has No Plans To Remake Game Of Thrones Season 8

HBO has heard fans' protests about Season 8 – yes, including that big petition – yet in the end, Game of Thrones is going to stay as-is.


During HBO's TCA summer press tour, programming chief Casey Cloys officially addressed both the ire of fans drawn from Season 8 and also because the petition itself, confirming once and for all that a remake or anything like it just isn't happening.


“There are very, very few disadvantages to having a hugely popular show, although one I can think of is while you attempt to end it, several people have big suggestions on how it should end,” Bloys mentioned. “The petition shows a lot of enthusiasm and passion for the show, however it wasn’t something that we seriously considered.”


that is correct – it's nothing that the team seriously believed. So, yeah. It's not going to be happening. Originally, frustrated Game of Thrones viewer Dylan D. Took to Change.Org to strike up a petition he had named"Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers." The petition was meant to beckon HBO to deliver a "final season that makes sense," because according to Dylan, "David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have proven themselves to be woefully incompetent writers whenever they have no source material (i.E. The books) to fall back on." Yikes.


Interestingly enough, Bloys noted that both David Benioff and D.B. Weiss actually had what he called "minimal" content while filming Season 8.


“When a show is in its sixth, seventh or eighth season, by that point there’s generally a rhythm between showrunners and the network as to what they expect,” he commented. Perhaps this is a form of explanation as to why the show ended up the way it did, at least to fans, and didn't quite match up to their expectations.


Either way, it is almost time to live and let perish, and learn to embrace Season 8 as-is. It won't be changing anytime soon.